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Communicating Environmental Issues to the Public

Alumnus Kati Angarone RU ’98, MPAP ’04, discusses her career journey from studying natural resource management to her pivotal roles at NJDEP, including her work on climate policy, watershed and land management, and local environmental initiatives.

New Research on Residential Solar Panel Adoption

The results suggest that the relative advantage factors – electricity prices and solar irradiation – play the most significant role across all regions and market segmentations. Statewide policy indicators are the second most significant factor, followed by socio-economic variables on employment status, remote working, car ownership, and property value.

NJSPL Blog: Unlocking Energy Efficiency

Unlocking Energy Efficiency: A Data-Driven Exploration of PACE Bond Issuance in California By Ruth Winecoff This is the second in a series describing ongoing research on Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE). PACE, which uses local governments’ ability to borrow to...

Hetling and McFarland (PP ’24) Acknowledged for TANF Research

The authors conducted an analysis to
determine the extent to which Maryland‘s TCA program incorporates trauma-informed principles into the program. Tables 21 and 22 segment results by trauma-informed domains that were introduced in the Assessment Tools chapter. These domains are part of the Trauma-Informed TANF Evaluative Toolkit based on Dr. Andrea Hetling’s 2019 research.

Newman, Gerlofs named Urban Affairs Book Review Editors

After an international search, the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) has announced that Kathe Newman (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) and Ben Gerlofs (University of Hong Kong) have been appointed the new Book Review Editors of the Journal of Urban Affairs. The...

Education Outcomes and Funding in the 21st Century

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta has released a new article analyzing wage disparities between workers with and without college degrees and the rising costs of higher education co-written by Carl Van Horn.

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