C-PREE Bradford Seminar with Shahzeen Attari, "Fusing Facts and Feelings to Motivate Action on Climate Change"

Date & Time Feb 17 2020 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Speaker(s)
Shahzeen Attari, Associate Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington
Audience Open to the Public, Registration Required

This lecture is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Seminar Series, organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and Environment. The seminars highlight scholars and practitioners from various fields working on critical research related to science policy. We invite speakers to share new research they are working on, focusing on important policy-relevant issues. Since its inception in Fall 1999, this series has hosted many speakers who are influential in science & environmental policy. Attendance by Princeton students, faculty and staff is encouraged.

All seminars are open to the public on a limited basis with approved RSVP to ccrosby@princeton.edu

About this Seminar

Shahzeen Attari’s research focuses on people's judgments and decisions about climate change and resource use. She has investigated how people think about energy and water use, how people conceptualize the water system, and is currently studying how to use stories to fuse facts and feelings to motivate action on climate change. She is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and an Associate Professor at the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University Bloomington. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Earth Institute and the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) at Columbia University. She holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Bachelors of Science in Engineering Physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You can find out more here: www.szattari.com