Lemir TeronAssistant Professor

211A Marshall Hall
1 Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210

315-470-6636
lteron@esf.edu

Overview

2019 Distinguished Faculty Member for Teaching Excellence Award

My thinking and research deliberates on problems related to inequality, conflict and empowerment. The implications are often times, though not exclusively, environmental. My intellectual playgrounds include urban spaces, coastal communities and sites of resilience.

Keywords

Energy Justice, Urban Studies, Environmental Justice, Coastal Communities, Environmental Law, Political Ecology

Education

PhD Energy & Environmental Policy, University of Delaware

MS Urban Policy Studies, Georgia State University

BS Social Science Education, University of Georgia

Recent Publications

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 & Energy Auditing (EST 427/627)

Environmental Justice (EST 615)

Concepts & Principles of Sustainable Development (EST 626)

 

Affiliations

Urban Affairs Association

Black Doctoral Network

Political Ecology Society

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