Led by Professor Hilary Boudet, the Energy, Climate, and Society Lab explores the human side of energy transitions and climate challenges, focusing on public perceptions, community responses, and interventions to promote energy and environmental conservation.
The lab’s current projects include studying the benefits and impacts of offshore wind development, understanding underrepresented coastal communities’ perspectives on ocean conservation, and analyzing public views on extreme events and climate adaptation.
The lab’s mission is to inform evidence-based policies and empower communities to build a sustainable, equitable, and climate-resilient future.
Hilary Boudet
Siddiqi, M. U. A., Giordono, L., Peterson, H. L., Zanocco, C., Stelmach, G., Flora, J., & Boudet, H. S. (2026). Seeing is believing or believing is seeing: divergent pathways to climate action and policy support following extreme weather events. npj Climate Action. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-026-00381-3 [Online Article]
Taufiq, H. A., Stelmach, G. J., Rahman, U., Siddiqi, M. U. A., & Boudet, H. (2026). Community benefit agreement preferences for energy development offshore California, Oregon, and Washington: Insights from a choice-based conjoint experiment. Energy Policy, 215, 115275. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2026.115275 [Online Article]
Bingham, J. A., Stelmach, G., Hazboun, S., & Boudet, H. S. (2026). Perspectives on offshore wind energy development from Oregon’s south coast. [Online Article]
Ruscetta, L., E. Korein, E. Miller, J. Bingham, J. Firestone, S. Hazboun and H. S. Boudet (2026). Transactional or transformative? Offshore wind developer perspectives on community benefit mechanisms in the United States. Energy Research & Social Science 134: 104625. DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2026.104625. [Online Article]
