Sustainability Week
Keynote Lecture:
Working Toward Systemic Equity with Courageous
Vulnerability
Joe F. Bozeman III
There
has been renewed interest toward progressing the cause of justice and equity in
recent years. However, producing tangible results in this regard is especially
challenging without an effective strategy and a firm conceptual foundation. Dr.
Joe F. Bozeman III, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
at Georgia Tech, will provide key concepts and tools to help address this gap.
Specifically, he will explain the Systemic Equity Framework (i.e., addressing
the resource, policy, and cultural needs of the systematically marginalized
over a long period), how it can be applied in civil and environmental
engineering research for transdisciplinary effect (e.g., food-energy-water,
life cycle assessment, and public policy applications), and provide tips on how
to be courageously vulnerable to realize equitable outcomes.
Dr.
Bozeman is an industrial ecologist committed to fostering equitable climate
change adaptation and mitigation strategies. His current work focuses on the
sociodemographic impacts of the food-energy-water nexus, equity applications in
energy and environmental systems, and urban carbon management strategies. Dr.
Bozeman specializes in developing novel approaches, datasets, and policy
proposals using core methodologies such as life cycle assessment, scenario
analysis, and survey administration. He
spent over a decade in the public and private sectors as an energy and
environmental practitioner before joining Georgia Tech as an Assistant
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. As his courtesy appointment
in the School of Public Policy suggests, Dr. Bozeman’s research involves
cross-disciplinary collaboration. He has previously published award-winning
content with psychology and economic experts, with public health experts, and
intends to continue addressing the complex and ‘wicked’ challenges of our time
in this manner.
Co-Sponsored by the UIS School of Integrated Science,
Sustainability and Public Health;
UIS Green Fee Committee; UIS Sustainability
Committee