Emma Laurens
PhD Candidate, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
PO Box 872402
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
Titles
- PhD Candidate, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biography
Emma Laurens in a first-year doctoral candidate and graduate teaching assistant from the greater Philadelphia area. Broad interests include the relationship between environmental degradation and changing administrations within the United States, as well as associated public viewpoints. She is especially interested in researching the time between policy implementation at the federal level and tangible environmental effects. Present research includes long-term collaborative project between the Arizona State University and University of California, Davis observing local government's capacity to cope with boom-bust cycles associated with hydraulic fracturing operations in the Appalachia region; specifically, communities located on the Marcellus and Utica shales in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. General research interests include hydraulic fracturing and associated social and environmental impacts; environmental justice, remediation and policy; alternative energy; waters rights and use.
Posters
2020
Citrin, G., E. J. Laurens and A. Hernandez. 2020. Highlighting natural gas development: Examining contrasting state policies and economic development implications. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.
Hernandez, A., E. J. Laurens and G. Citrin. 2020. Shaping oil and natural gas policy: Developing insight to the culture, politics, and economic development of the Marcellus and Utica shale region.. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.