Celina Scott-Buechler

Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy

Based in

United States
North America

Celina Scott-Buechler is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Her research examines the governance of climate and energy transitions, with a focus on how policy design and implementation can be responsive to climate justice needs. Topics of study include procedural and distributional justice of large-scale climate mitigation infrastructure planning (connected clean energy, carbon dioxide removal, and connective infrastructures) and just transitions for communities historically dependent on fossil fuel industries.

Dr. Scott-Buechler’s work integrates insights from public policy, law, climate and environmental justice, and the natural sciences, drawing on qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze how climate policies are implemented and experienced on the ground. Her research has examined public perceptions of climate interventions, the governance of novel mitigation technologies, and the distributional and procedural justice dimensions of large-scale decarbonization efforts.

She holds a PhD from Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability, JD from Stanford Law School, and MS in Atmospheric Science from Cornell University.