My work addresses relationships linking society and nature specifically as related to energy, ecology, economy, and food. I am a Research Associate with Leadership for the Ecozoic and coordinator of the Ecozoic Policy Project.
Research Associate
Publications
- Bozuwa, J., Burke, M.J., Cox, S, & Skandier, C. (2022). Democratic governance of fossil fuel decline. In Nadesan, M.H., Pasqualetti, M.J., Keahey, J. (Eds.). Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures (pp. 73-82). Elsevier.
- Burke, M. J., & Melgar, R. (2022). SDG 7 requires post-growth energy sufficiency. Frontiers in Sustainability, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsus.2022.940958
- Burke, M. J., & Smolyar, N. L. (2022). Demilitarize for a Just Transition. In A. Dunlap & A. Brock (Eds.), Enforcing Ecocide: Power, Policing & Planetary Militarization (pp. 307–329). Springer International Publishing.
- Burke, M. J. (2022). Post-growth policies for the future of just transitions in an era of uncertainty. Futures, 136, 102900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102900
- Burke, M.J. (2021). Energy commons and alternatives to enclosures of sunshine and wind (Ch. 18). In Feldpausch-Parker, A., Endres, D., Peterson, T.R., & Gomez, S. (Eds.). Routledge Energy Democracy Handbook. Routledge.
- Melgar, R., & Burke, M. (2021). SDG 7 ‘Energy for all’: Ecological economic targets for an energy transition that centres well-being within planetary boundaries. In Ecological Limits of Development. Routledge.
- Kish, K., Mallery, D., Yahya Haage, G., Melgar-Melgar, R., Burke, M., Orr, C., Smolyar, N. L., Sanniti, S., & Larson, J. (2021). Fostering critical pluralism with systems theory, methods, and heuristics. Ecological Economics, 189, 107171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107171
- Burke, M. J. (2021). Just energy systems: Five questions and countless responses for regenerative energy communities. In Ryder, S. et al. (Eds.). Environmental justice in the Anthropocene: From (un)just presents to just futures (pp. 160-174). Routledge.
- Gobby, J., Temper, L., Burke, M., & von Ellenrieder, N. (2021). Resistance as governance: Transformative strategies forged on the frontlines of extractivism in Canada. The Extractive Industries and Society, 100919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100919
- Burke, M. J. (2020). Energy sufficiency for a just transition: A systematic review. Energies, 13(10), 2444. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102444
- Wallis, S., Barbieri, L., Damiano, A., & Burke, M. (2020). The role of technology in achieving the future we want. In Costanza, R., Erickson, J. D., Farley, J., & Kubiszewski, I. (Eds.). Sustainable Wellbeing futures: a research and action agenda for ecological economics. Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Stephens, J. C., Burke, M. J., Gibian, B., Jordi, E., & Watts, R. (2018). Operationalizing energy democracy: Challenges and opportunities in Vermont’s renewable energy transformation. Frontiers in Communication, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00043
- Burke, M. J. (2018). Energy democracy and the co-production of social and technological systems in north-eastern North America. In A. Szolucha (Ed.), Energy, Resource Extraction and Society: Impacts and Contested Futures (pp. 88–104). Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.
- Burke, M. J. (2018). Mutually-beneficial renewable energy systems. Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, 6(1), 87–116. https://doi.org/10.7358/rela-2018-001-burk
- Burke, M. J. (2018). Shared yet contested: Energy democracy counter-narratives. Frontiers in Communication, 3:22. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00022
- Burke, M. J., & Stephens, J. C. (2018). Political power and renewable energy futures: A critical review. Energy Research & Social Science, 35, 78–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.10.018
- Burke, M. J., & Stephens, J. C. (2017). Energy democracy: Goals and policy instruments for sociotechnical transitions. Energy Research & Social Science, 33, 35-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.024
- Sovacool, B. K., Burke, M., Baker, L., Kotikalapudi, C. K., & Wlokas, H. (2017). New frontiers and conceptual frameworks for energy justice. Energy Policy, 105, 677–691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.03.005
Associations and Affiliations
Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Affiliate, Post Growth Institute
Collaborator, Institute for Agroecology
Research Fellow, The Next Systems Project
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Just transition, science-technology-society, political economy and ecology, ecological restoration, food systems, bioregions
Education
- Ph.D. Renewable Resources—Environment, McGill University
- M.P.A., University of Vermont
- M.A., University of New Mexico
- B.S., The Ohio State University
Contact
Email:
Phone:
- 802-656-9275
Office Location:
204 A Morrill Hall