Presenter: Prakash Kashwan

Monday, October 14, 3-4:30pm, Library Fishbowl (LIB 209) relocated upstairs to LIB 302 Scholars Lab

Large-scale development of offshore wind (OSW) is a relatively new field with a variety of knowledge gaps about its social and environmental impacts. These knowledge gaps create opportunities for obstructing policy development by entrenched interests. Based on research in Maine and preliminary results of ongoing research in California, Dr. Prakash Kashwan offers lessons for promoting policy development in the presence of competing interests and knowledge gaps. He shows that countering the cynical politics of entrenched opposition demands nimble and adaptive collaborations among actors cutting across the silos of state, society, and markets. He concludes by reflecting on the implications of this research for OSW policy development on the West Coast.

Prakash Kashwan is an Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Brandeis University, and the Chair of the Environmental Justice concentration in the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program at the Heller School of Social Policy and Management. A recent article reflecting some of his research findings, “Maine Unions Lead on the Green Energy Transition,” can be read here: https://hum.link/Z7D.  

This talk is sponsored by the Politics Department and Environmental Studies Department at Cal Poly Humboldt. Persons who wish to request disability related accommodations or who have questions may contact the Politics Department at 707-826-4494 or politics@humboldt.edu.