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38
Citations
7870
World Ranking
8535
National Ranking
3050

Overview

Jennie C. Stephens is affiliated with Northeastern University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pollution, and Finance. The research topics they focus on include Climate Change and Geoengineering, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Energy and Environment Impacts, Climate Change Communication and Perception, Climate Change and Health Impacts, and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life.

The scientist has published extensively across various venues. Frequent publication venues include Energy Research & Social Science, Climatic Change, Environmental Politics, Studies An Irish Quarterly Review, and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Stephens are:

  • Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research (2020), Energy Research & Social Science
  • Climate policy conflict in the U.S. states: a critical review and way forward (2022), Climatic Change
  • Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement (2020), Energy Research & Social Science
  • Green New Deal proposals: Comparing emerging transformational climate policies at multiple scales (2021), Energy Research & Social Science
  • Fossil fuel companies' climate communication strategies: Industry messaging on renewables and natural gas (2023), Energy Research & Social Science

Stephens has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Yutong Si, Kevin Surprise, Duncan McLaren, Alaina Kinol, and Prakash Kashwan. These collaborations reflect interdisciplinary work and contributions to diverse aspects of environmental and social research.

In addition to articles, Stephens has authored books published by University of Georgia Press eBooks and Johns Hopkins University Press. Titles include Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance (2023) and Climate Justice and the University (2024), contributing to academic discourse on climate justice and sustainability.

Best Publications

  • Political power and renewable energy futures: A critical review

    Matthew J. Burke;Jennie C. Stephens

  • Higher education as a change agent for sustainability in different cultures and contexts

    Jennie C. Stephens;Maria E. Hernandez;Mikael Román;Amanda C. Graham

  • Energy democracy: Goals and policy instruments for sociotechnical transitions

    Matthew J. Burke;Jennie C. Stephens

  • An international comparative analysis of sustainability transformation across seven universities

    D Ferrer-Balas;J Adachi;S Banas;C.I. Davidson

  • Sociotechnical agendas : Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research

    Benjamin K Sovacool;David J Hess;Sulfikar Amir;Frank W Geels

  • Toward an empirical research agenda for sustainability in higher education: exploring the transition management framework

    Jennie C. Stephens;Amanda C. Graham

  • Embodied energy injustices: Unveiling and politicizing the transboundary harms of fossil fuel extractivism and fossil fuel supply chains

    Noel Healy;Jennie C. Stephens;Stephanie A. Malin

  • Environmental education in transition: A critical review of recent research on climate change and energy education

    Simon N. Jorgenson;Jennie C. Stephens;Beth White

  • Women’s leadership in renewable transformation, energy justice and energy democracy: Redistributing power

    Elizabeth Allen;Hannah Lyons;Jennie C. Stephens

  • Energy Democracy: Redistributing Power to the People Through Renewable Transformation

    Jennie C. Stephens

  • Socio-Political Evaluation of Energy Deployment (SPEED): An integrated research framework analyzing energy technology deployment

    Jennie C. Stephens;Elizabeth J. Wilson;Tarla Rai Peterson

  • Wind Energy in US Media: A Comparative State-Level Analysis of a Critical Climate Change Mitigation Technology

    Jennie C. Stephens;Gabriel M. Rand;Leah L. Melnick

  • Global learning on carbon capture and storage: A call for strong international cooperation on CCS demonstration

    Heleen de Coninck;Heleen de Coninck;Jennie C. Stephens;Jennie C. Stephens;Bert Metz

  • Assessing innovation in emerging energy technologies: Socio-technical dynamics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) in the USA

    Jennie C. Stephens;Scott Jiusto

  • Policy stakeholders and deployment of wind power in the sub-national context: A comparison of four U.S. states

    Miriam Fischlein;Joel Larson;Damon M. Hall;Rumika Chaudhry

  • Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement

    Kirsten E.H. Jenkins;Jennie C Stephens;Tony G. Reames;Diana Hernández

  • Smart Grid (R)evolution

    Jennie Stephens;Elizabeth J. Wilson;Tarla Rai Peterson

  • Toward a gender diverse workforce in the renewable energy transition

    Rebecca Pearl-Martinez;Jennie C. Stephens

  • The social and political complexities of learning in carbon capture and storage demonstration projects

    Nils Markusson;Atsushi Ishii;Jennie C. Stephens

  • Growing interest in carbon capture and storage (CCS) for climate change mitigation

    Jennie C. Stephens

  • Policy Stakeholders' Perceptions of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Comparison of Four U.S. States

    Rumika Chaudhry;Miriam Fischlein;Joel Larson;Damon M. Hall

  • Spreading the News on Carbon Capture and Storage: A State-Level Comparison of US Media

    Andrea M. Feldpausch-Parker;Chara J. Ragland;Leah L. Melnick;Rumika Chaudhry

  • Characterizing the international carbon capture and storage community

    Jennie C. Stephens;Anders Hansson;Yue Liu;Heleen de Coninck

  • Public perception of and engagement with emerging low-carbon energy technologies: A literature review

    Tarla Rai Peterson;Jennie C. Stephens;Elizabeth J. Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth J. Wilson
Elizabeth J. Wilson Dartmouth College
James Meadowcroft
James Meadowcroft Carleton University
Frank W. Geels
Frank W. Geels University of Manchester
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Johan Schot
Johan Schot Utrecht University
David J. Hess
David J. Hess Vanderbilt University
Andrew Stirling
Andrew Stirling University of Sussex
Alex Guenther
Alex Guenther University of California, Irvine
Bob van der Zwaan
Bob van der Zwaan University of Amsterdam
Claudio O. Stöckle
Claudio O. Stöckle Washington State University

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