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Joan Fitzgerald, PhD

Author • Speaker • Researcher

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  • "Joan Fitzgerald shows precisely how to harvest beyond the low-hanging fruit: this is a smart book, filled with enough detail to help any planner, and enough vision to inspire any citizen."
    Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? and founder of 350.org

About Joan Fitzgerald

fitzgerald-hp-portraitJoan Fitzgerald is a Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University. She focuses on urban climate action and strategies for linking it to equity, economic development, and innovation. In her fourth book, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change (Oxford Univ. Press, 2020), she argues that the climate strategies of too many cities represent random acts of greenness rather than integrated and aggressive action. She points to leading cities in North America and Europe and offers strategies for lagging cities to accelerate their action. Her ongoing Climate Just Cities Project examines strategies for post-Covid urban climate action to emphasize equity. She blogs on viral inequality and urban climate action on Planetizen. LEARN MORE

Cities have long been places of innovation; this book showcases what is possible. Joan Fitzgerald captures in her stories the true essence of how cities have faced the crisis of climate change and responded with novel solutions that utilize energy efficiency and renewable energy.”

—Former Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, City of Los Angeles on Emerald Cities

Blogs & Commentary

Viral Inequality and Climate Justice, Planetizen

Cleaner Air Should Not Require Sheltering in Place, The American Prospect

Cities on the Front Lines, The American Prospect

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Focus Areas

Sustainability…Climate action planning…Urban climate action…Cities…Social Justice…Economic Development…Climate Change…Eco-districts

Research

To get her message out, Joan publishes in academic journals and writes magazine articles and op-eds. She blogs for the London School of Economics’ U.S. Politics and Policy website. Her fourth book, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change was published March 27, 2020.

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Speaking

Bogota… Amsterdam… New York… Medillin, Colombia… Hamburg, Germany… Seattle… Boston… Paris… Washington, D.C… Stockholm… The Hague… Philadelphia… San Francisco…

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Other Books

Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development

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