Leadership for the
ECOZOIC
MATTHEW BURKE
L4E POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
DIRECTOR OF THE ECOZOIC POLICY PROJECT
Contact: Matthew.Burke@uvm.edu
Matthew Burke is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont, in collaboration with Leadership for the Ecozoic. Matthew’s current research aims to examine and support successful integration of renewable energy development and protection and preservation of ecological and agricultural functions of working landscapes across multiple scales.
Matthew completed a Ph.D. in Renewable Resources — Environment (May 2019) at McGill University under the supervision of Professors Peter G. Brown (McGill University) and Jennie C. Stephens (Northeastern University). Matthew’s doctoral research focused on sociopolitical and ecological dimensions of the renewable energy transition by examining energy democracy in theory and practice, emphasizing groups active in northeastern North America.
PUBLICATIONS & OTHER WORKS
Just energy systems: Five questions and countless responses for regenerative energy communities
Burke, M. J. (2021). Just energy systems: Five questions and countless responses for regenerative energy communities. In Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene (pp. 160–174). Routledge.
*This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures on June 2021, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003023609
Energy-Sufficiency for a Just Transition: A Systematic Review
Burke, M. J. (2020). Energy-Sufficiency for a Just Transition: A Systematic Review. Energies, 13(10), 2444. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102444
The Role of Technology in Achieving the Future we Want
Contributors: S. Wallis, M. Burke, A. Damiano, S. Barbieri. In: Sustainable Wellbeing futures: a research and action agenda for ecological economics. Edward Elgar Publishing. 2020.
Energy Democracy and the Co-evolution of Social and Technological Systems
Thesis, 2019. McGill University.
Operationalizing Energy Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities in Vermont’s Renewable Energy Transformation
Contributors: Stephens, J. C., Burke, M. J., Gibian, B., Jordi, E., & Watts, R. In: Frontiers of Communication, 3. 2018.
Mutually-Beneficial Renewable Energy Systems. Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism
Relations Beyond Anthropocentrism, 6(1). 2018.
Shared Yet Contested: Energy Democracy Counter-Narratives
Frontiers in Communication, 3:22. 2018.
Political Power and Renewable Energy Futures: A Critical Review
Contributors: Matt Burke & Stephens, J. C. In: Energy Research & Social Science, 35. 2018.
Energy Democracy: Goals and Policy Instruments for Sociotechnical Transitions
Contributors: Matt Burke & Stephens, J. C. In: Energy Research & Social Science, 33. 2017.
New Frontiers and Conceptual Frameworks for Energy Justice
Contributors: Benjamin Sovacool, Matthew Burke, Lucy Baker, Chaitanya Kumar Kotikalapudi, & Holle Wlokas,In: Energy Policy, 105. 2017.