Scott Jiusto
Assistant Professor
Director, Cape Town, South Africa Project Center
508-831-5393 (tel),
508-831-5485 (fax)
sjiusto@wpi.edu
Education
- Ph.D. in Geography, Clark University Graduate School of Geography. 2004.
- M.A. in Geography, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1998.
- B.S. in Social Theory, Social Structure and Change, Empire State College, State University of New York, 1992.
Related Links
- Energy & Environment Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers: www.eesg.org
Areas of Interest
My research interests are in environmental policy and philosophy, particularly energy policy and the pursuit of sustainability at sub-national scales. Research themes include assessing the politics of energy policy across multiple geographic scales (state, local and international), carbon emissions analysis, electrical power sector restructuring, and the management and manipulation of scientific uncertainty in the production of environmental knowledge and environmental policy. I have recently begun extending these interests to consider how city agencies, NGOs and academic programs can address issues of sustainable community development in informal settlements, particularly in Cape Town, South Africa.
These sustainability-related interests intersect with my teaching responsibilities in WPI’s Global Studies Program and a complementary research agenda that concerns the role of experiential, “project-based” approaches to educating students to effectively address challenges of sustainable development. My role as Director of the new WPI Cape Town Project Centre provides an opportunity to extend and more closely integrate this research on sustainability and undergraduate, experiential education.
Publications
- Scott Jiusto (In Press). “An indicator framework for assessing US state carbon emissions reduction efforts (with baseline trends from 1990-2001),” Energy Policy.
- Scott Jiusto (In Press). “Energy transformations and geographic research,” in A Companion to Environmental Geography, Editors Noel Castree, David Demeritt, Diana Liverman and Bruce Rhoads. Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
- Scott Jiusto and David DiBiasio (2007). “The habit of learning,” Prism, Vol. 17, No. 3.
- Scott Jiusto (2006). “Triangular thinking: Reflections on research questions and methodology,” Annals of Research on Engineering Education, Vol. 2 , No. 3.
- Scott Jiusto and David DiBiasio (2006). “Structured summary of ‘Experiential learning environments: Do they prepare our students to be self-directed, life-long learners?’" Annals of Research on Engineering Education, Vol. 2 , No. 3.
- Scott Jiusto (2006). “The differences that methods make: Cross-border power flows and accounting for carbon emissions from electricity use,” Energy Policy, Vol. 34, No. 17 (Nov. 2006), pages 2915-2928.
- Scott Jiusto and David DiBiasio (2006). “Experiential learning environments: Do they prepare our students to be self-directed, life-long learners?” Journal of Engineering Education, July 2006, pages 195-204.
- D. DiBiasio and S. Jiusto (2005). “Nontraditional learning environments: Do they prepare our students for life-long learning?,” Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 13.
- T. Downs and contributors S. Jiusto, H. Brown, C. Roberts, and T. Hagopian (2005). “Worcester poised on the leading edge of cleaner energy policy,” Op-ed piece in Worcester Telegram and Gazette, March 4.
- S. Jiusto (2004). Spatial indeterminacy and power sector carbon emissions accounting, dissertation. Clark University, Worcester, MA.
- W. Gray, H. Fatkin, D. Golding, S. Jiusto, and J. Sarkis (2003). “Industrial restructuring in the pulp and paper industry: Relationships to corporate environmental, health and safety risks,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the Greening of Industry Network: Innovating for Sustainability, San Francisco, October.
- S. Jiusto. “EcoTarium Energy System Planning Report,” technical report (2003). Marsh Institute at Clark University, Worcester, MA. May 8.
- J. Sarkis, S. Jiusto, R. Kasperson, and W. Gray (2000). “Organizational Restructuring Implications for Corporate Sustainability,” in Walter Leal Filho, editor, Communicating Sustainability, Volume 6 of the Series "Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability." Peter Lan Scientific Publishers, Bern, Germany.
- Kasperson, R.E., J.X. Kasperson, S. Jiusto, J. Sarkis, and W. Gray (2000). Industrial restructuring and risk management. In Foresight and precaution: Proceedings of ESREL, 2000, SARS, and SRA-Europe Annual Conference, Edinburgh/Scotland/United Kingdom, 15-17 May 2000, ed. M.P. Cottam, D.W. Harvey, R.P. Pape, and J. Tait, 2: 1193-1198. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema.
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