Susan F. Tierney, Workshop Committee Chair, Senior Advisor, Analysis Group Inc.

Thomas Thornton, Board Director, Board of Environmental Change and Society, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Avi Shultz, Director, Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office, U.S. Department of Energy

Chris Frey, Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Alan Tomkins, Acting Division Director, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation

Isabella Gee, Program Associate, Energy and Environment Program, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Susan F. Tierney, Planning Committee Chair

• What is the state of social science research telling us when siting efforts are successful, versus those that lead to familiar “Not In My Backyard”-like barriers?
• What is the state of social science research on how institutions like community engagement efforts help improve siting?
• What is the state of (and needs for) social science research about coordinated sitings, where the viability on one piece of infrastructure hinges on co-location of others?
• What are the similarities and differences in the social science questions for siting industrial infrastructure versus other energy infrastructure (e.g., power plants, etc.)?
• What are challenges specific to siting of industrial infrastructure and what social science research is needed to address them?

Elizabeth Ross, Mixed Methods Intersectional Analyst, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Patrick Devine-Wright, Professor of Human Geography, University of Exeter

Alex Gazmararian, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Politics; and Prize Fellow, Social Sciences, Princeton University

Hilary Boudet, Associate Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Programs, School of Public Policy, Oregon State University

• What does the social science literature indicate about the impact of industrial decarbonization on the quality of work (e.g., wages, benefits, skills requirements, pensions, mental health support) in communities impacted by such transitions, and where do gaps in knowledge exist?
• What does the literature inform about the effectiveness of worker retraining and targeted assistance to affected workers, and how is effectiveness defined and measured?
• What is known about levels of satisfaction among workers impacted by industrial decarbonization transitions?
• What factors influence workers’ willingness to support industrial decarbonization?
• What is the role of intergenerational justice in moving towards a just transition?

Shade Shutters, Research Scientist, School of Complex Adaptive Systems, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University

Dimitris Stevis, Professor of Politics, Colorado State University

Erin Mayfield, Hodgson Family Assistant Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College

• How can we create positive path dependencies in the implementation of low carbon technologies relevant to industrial decarbonization?
• How well are the co-benefits associated with decarbonization understood and quantified? Is there a way to better incorporate them into cost-benefit analyses around new infrastructure?
• Can greater transparency and accessibility of information aid in improving communities’ willingness to adapt to low carbon societies?

Jennifer Hirsch, Inaugural Senior Director, Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education, Georgia Institute of Technology

Edson Severnini, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; and Research Affiliate, Institute of Labor Economics

Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future

Mijin Cha, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

• What are the lessons learned from technology development and adoption in other sectors?
• What is the present state of the research on community co-benefits from industrial decarbonization?
• What are the barriers, challenges, and risks of deploying new technologies?
• What are the research gaps and recommendations for future research work?

Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Earth and Environment; and Director, Institute for Global Sustainability, Boston University

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor, Department of Political Science; and Director, Climate Solutions Lab, Watson Institute for Public and International Affairs, Brown University

Jennifer Dunn, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; and Director, Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience, Northwestern University

Simone H. Stewart, Senior Industrial Policy Specialist, Climate and Energy Policy Team, National Wildlife Federation

• What are the largest apparent gaps between what is happening in social sciences and what is needed from the social sciences to understand patterns and prospects for industrial decarbonization?
• Which topics seem to be highest and lowest priority?
• What should be explored within the disciplines to get the social sciences more engaged (vs. outside)?

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Susan F. Tierney, Planning Committee Chair

• What are specific environmental justice issues relevant to industrial decarbonization and how can social science research help to address them?
• How do we validate claims of environmental injustice?
• How can or should environmental justice be incorporated into policy and decision making around industrial decarbonization?
• Where there are multiple sources of historical environmental injustices in particular places and specific new industrial decarbonization efforts become focusing events to address such injustices, how have or can insights from social science research inform ways to address and, where possible, resolve environmental justice concerns?
• Are there examples of improved convergence between science, policy, and social science that can serve as exemplars for decision making towards environmental justice?

David Konisky, Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University

Jalonne L. White-Newsome, Senior Director for Environmental Justice, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Patricia Romero-Lankao, Canadian Excellence in Research Chair, University of Toronto Scarborough

• How should we define and measure trust?
• What is known about actions, mechanisms, and processes leading to erosion or enhancement of trust in governmental decision making about community and industrial transitions?
• How does the erosion of trust in government generally affect attitudes about government action on industrial decarbonization transitions?

David J. Hess, James Thornton Fant Chair in Sustainability; Professor, Sociology Department; and Director of Climate and Environmental Studies, Vanderbilt University

Holly Jean Buck, Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Buffalo

Mary Nichols, Former Chair, California Air Resources Board

• How do firms respond to financial incentives for decarbonization? Is there an understanding of situations in which “carrots” or “sticks” work better?
• What is known from the social science literature about the factors and conditions that influence different types of firms’ decisions about transitioning from one type of business to another?
• How do you measure the impact of the “green premium” on firm-level behavior?

Nicole Darnall, Foundation Professor of Management and Public Policy; and Director and Co-Founder, Arizona State University’s Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative, Arizona State University

Pavitra Srinivasan, Senior Manager, Industry Program; and Co-Lead, Embodied Carbon Initiative, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Chair of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce; Ross School of Business and the School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan

Susan F. Tierney, Planning Committee Chair and Senior Advisor, Analysis Group

Daniel Talmage, Study Director, Board on Environmental Change and Society, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine