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Overview

Marilyn A. Brown is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research covers several key areas within energy, environment, and sustainability, focusing on topics such as energy affordability, climate policy, and energy systems.

The scientist has contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

  • High energy burden and low-income energy affordability: conclusions from a literature review (2020, Progress in Energy)
  • The persistence of high energy burdens: A bibliometric analysis of vulnerability, poverty, and exclusion in the United States (2020, Energy Research & Social Science)
  • A framework for localizing global climate solutions and their carbon reduction potential (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Achieving Decentralized, Electrified, and Decarbonized Ammonia Production (2024, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Are all jobs created equal? Regional employment impacts of a U.S. carbon tax (2020, Applied Energy)

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Matthew W. Hughey
  • Enrico Maria Piras
  • Deborah Carr
  • Amy Kroska
  • Jack Lam

Marilyn A. Brown publishes regularly in several key venues, including:

  • Sociology Compass
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Energy Research & Social Science
  • Applied Energy
  • Progress in Energy

Their work spans multiple subfields of study with a primary focus on:

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Pollution
  • Environmental Engineering

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Energy Efficiency and Management
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization

Best Publications

  • Market failures and barriers as a basis for clean energy policies

    Marilyn A Brown

  • Closing the efficiency gap: barriers to the efficient use of energy

    Eric Hirst;Marilyn Brown

  • Competing Dimensions of Energy Security: An International Perspective

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Marilyn A. Brown

  • Twelve metropolitan carbon footprints: A preliminary comparative global assessment

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Marilyn A. Brown

  • Machine learning approaches for estimating commercial building energy consumption

    Caleb Robinson;Bistra Dilkina;Jeffrey Hubbs;Wenwen Zhang

  • Opportunities and insights for reducing fossil fuel consumption by households and organizations

    Paul C. Stern;Paul C. Stern;Paul C. Stern;Kathryn B. Janda;Marilyn A. Brown;Linda Steg

  • Climate Change and Global Energy Security: Technology and Policy Options

    Benjamin K Sovacool;Marilyn A Brown

  • Electric urban delivery trucks: energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and cost-effectiveness.

    Dong-Yeon Lee;Valerie M. Thomas;Marilyn A. Brown

  • Scenarios for a clean energy future

    Marilyn A Brown;Mark D Levine;Walter Short;Jonathan G Koomey

  • Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America

    Marilyn A Brown;Frank Southworth;Andrea Sarzynski

  • High energy burden and low-income energy affordability: conclusions from a literature review

    Marilyn A Brown;Anmol Soni;Melissa V Lapsa;Katie Southworth

  • Smart meter deployment in Europe: A comparative case study on the impacts of national policy schemes

    Shan Zhou;Marilyn A. Brown

  • The geography of metropolitan carbon footprints

    Marilyn Ann Brown;Frank Southworth;Andrea Sarzynski

  • ENGINEERING-ECONOMIC STUDIES OF ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES TO REDUCE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS: Opportunities and Challenges

    Marilyn A. Brown;Mark D. Levine;Joseph P. Romm;Arthur H. Rosenfeld

  • Mitigating Climate Change through Green Buildings and Smart Growth

    Marilyn A Brown;Frank Southworth

  • Modelling the Spatial Distribution of Suburban Crime

    Marilyn A. Brown

  • Residential Energy Conservation: The Role of Past Experience in Repetitive Household Behavior

    Susan M. Macey;Marilyn A. Brown

  • A bibliographic analysis of recent solar energy literatures: The expansion and evolution of a research field

    Huibin Du;Huibin Du;Na Li;Marilyn A. Brown;Yuenuan Peng

  • Forty years of energy security trends: a comparative assessment of 22 industrialized countries

    Marilyn A. Brown;Yu Wang;Benjamin K. Sovacool;Anthony Louis D’Agostino

  • Scaling the policy response to climate change

    Benjamin K. Sovacool;Marilyn A. Brown

  • Guidelines for successfully transferring government-sponsored innovations☆

    Marilyn A. Brown;Linda G. Berry;Rajeev K. Goel

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin K. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool University of Sussex
Miroslav Begovic
Miroslav Begovic Texas A&M University
Yongsheng Chen
Yongsheng Chen Nankai University
Jian Zuo
Jian Zuo University of Adelaide
Kim M. Cobb
Kim M. Cobb Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen H. Schneider
Stephen H. Schneider Stanford University
Hashem Akbari
Hashem Akbari Concordia University
José Goldemberg
José Goldemberg Universidade de São Paulo
Linda Steg
Linda Steg University of Groningen
Mark O'Malley
Mark O'Malley Imperial College London

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