Jason Beckfield – Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Exploratory workshop examines concept of community in context of climate change and energy transition

January 26, 2024

The Harvard Center for Population and Development (HCPDS) co-sponsored a one-day workshop with the goal of bringing together policy experts and decision makers, researchers, and community-based advocates to explore the concept of “community”…

Jason Beckfield at podium at community and climate resilience exploratory workshop

Beckfield leads interdisciplinary faculty and graduate student retreat to develop undergraduate environmental justice curriculum

August 20, 2023

HCPDS Associate Director Jason Beckfield, PhD, led the first of three pilot retreats aimed at developing undergraduate curriculum in the “emerging field of environmental justice, or the convergence of environmental concerns with equity and civil…

Jason Beckfield leads a retreat at Wood's Hole on environmental justice

Reviewing research on the "deeply social" barriers to combatting the climate crisis

August 03, 2023

Harvard Pop Center Associate Director Jason Beckfield, PhD, has co-authored a review, published in The Annual of Review of Sociology, of the research that has explored the “social impacts of fossil fuel production and transitions to…