Dr Stacia Ryder

Stacia Ryder is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Geography Department at the University of Exeter in the UK and a co-founder of the Center for Environmental Justice at Colorado State University. As a postdoc, she works on the UKUH Challenge 5 project ‘Attitudes toward Shale Gas in Space and Time.’ She received her PhD in Sociology in 2019 from Colorado State University, where her dissertation work involved multi-sited critical policy ethnography to explore how power exacerbates issues of procedural justice across multiple governance scale decision-making processes for regulating oil and gas development as it has encroached on urban areas in Colorado’s Front Range. In addition to recently publishing works focused on environmental justice issues in energy contexts, Stacia has also recently co-edited two special issues on power, intersectionality and environmental justice for the journal Environmental Sociology, and is the lead editor of “Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene: From (Un)Just Presents to Just Futures” (available May 2021). Broadly, she uses theoretical frameworks of power and environmental justice lens to explore institutions, decision-making processes, place attachment, community engagement and collective action in the context of energy policy across multiple governance scales. Moving forward, she will advance this theoretical approach in the context of energy transitions as well as climate displacement. She is focused on how we can plan and develop policy that will allow for just and equitable transitions in energy contexts and for displaced people and communities in the face of the current anthropogenic climate crisis.

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