Lemir TeronAssistant Professor

213 Baker Laboratory
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210

315-470-6636
lteron@esf.edu

Overview

Areas of research focus: Energy Policy, Community Forestry, Environmental Justice

2022 YWCA of Syracuse & Onondaga County Champion of Diversity 

2020 MLK Celebration (Syracuse, NY) Unsung Hero Honoree

2019 Distinguished Faculty Member for Teaching Excellence Award

Tree Equity (Cheddar News)

Environmental Justice: New Policy Directions

PBS: Peril & Promise - Sweaty Penguin Pod

 

 

Keywords

Energy Justice, Urban Studies, Environmental Justice, Coastal Communities, Environmental Law, Community Forestry

Education

PhD Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Delaware

MS Urban Policy Studies, Georgia State University

BS Social Science Education, University of Georgia

Recent Publications

Teron, L. (2022).  Deconstructing Inequality: Cumulative Impacts, Environmental Justice, and Interstate Redevelopment. Richmond Public Interest Law Review.

Khayat, F., Teron, L., & Rasoulyan, F. (2021). COVID-19 and health inequality: the nexus of race, income and mortality in New York City. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare.

With: Sterling, E. J., Betley, Teron, L., et al. (2021). Centering Equity in Sustainable Food Systems Education. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 5: 737434. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.

Teron, L., Louis-Charles, H., Nibbs, F., Uppalapati, S. S. (2019). Establishing a toxics mobility inventory for climate change and pollution.  Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 12(4).

Fortier, M. O. P., Teron, L., Reames, T. G., Munardy, D. T., & Sullivan, B. M. (2019). Introduction to evaluating energy justice across the life cycle: A social life cycle assessment approach. Applied energy, 236, 211-219.

Teron, L., & Ekoh, S. S. (2018). Energy Democracy and the City: Evaluating the Practice & Potential of Municipal Sustainability Planning. Frontiers in Communication, 3, 8.

Louis-Charles, H. & Teron, L. (2017).  Environmental Migration, Public Perception and Immigration Policy: Examining the Hidden Environmental Toll of Terror Hysteria.  Environmental Justice. 

Teron, L. (2016). Sustainably Speaking: Considering Linguistic Isolation in Citywide Sustainability Planning. Sustainability: The Journal of Record, 9(6).

Teron, L. (2015). A Language of (In)Justice: Expanding the Sustainability Planning Lexicon. Environmental Justice, 8(6), 221-226.

Courses

Introduction to Environmental Studies (EST 133)

Environmental Justice (EST 415)

Environmental Justice (EST 615)

 

 

Affiliations

Urban Affairs Association

Black Doctoral Network

Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences

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