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Research interests
public policy, environmental policy, environmental politics, energy policy, climate change policy, sustainable systems, energy transition, climate change mitigation, energy justice, energy insecurity, wellbeing,
Biography
Dr Lee White is a Fellow with the Zero Carbon Energy in the Asia Pacific Grand Challenge program. She earned her PhD at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, examining the impact of particular policy designs in terms of equity and the role that urban policy can play in supporting energy transition.
Her research is focused on climate and energy policy, with emphasis on how institutions and actors shape energy transition and whose interests are met or underserved by these outcomes. She has published in areas including predictors of rooftop solar and electric vehicle adoption, household response to demand management, and policies to govern emerging energy transition resources such as green hydrogen.
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Researcher's projects
Current research includes:
Embedded emissions accounting: frameworks for trade in a net-zero world. Dr White is co-investigator on this ARC-Linkage project led by Associate Professor Emma Aisbett. This project will help establish a global knowledge base on best-practice public embedded emissions accounting frameworks for traded products.
Bringing to light the regulatory disparities for electricity access and services in remote Australia. Dr White is leading this project in collaboration with Brad Riley, Sally Wilson, Francis Markham, Lily O’Neill, Michael Klerck, and Vanessa Napaltjari Davis. This work received funding from Energy Consumers Australia, and aims to provide a critical overarching view by building an original data set of electricity regulations and rules to support geographic mapping and statistical analysis of differences in electricity regulatory environments across Australia. This builds on prior work by team members, Energy insecurity during temperature extremes in remote Australia (Nature Energy, 2022)
Expertise Areas
- Public Policy
- Econometric and Statistical Methods
- Climate change policy
- Environment Policy
- Sustainable Development
- Urban Policy
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Development of a methodology to quantify and monetise the co- benefits of energy efficiency; and undertake spatial mapping to identify geographical variation in risk factors and priority populations
Lal, A., Chateau, D., Skeat, H., Tsheten, T. & White, L. V.
ACT Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate
28/07/23 → 28/07/25
Project: Research
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ADB AEIR 2023 Background Paper Embedded Emissions Accounting
Aisbett, E., Aisbett, E., Aslam, H., Aslam, H., White, L. V. & White, L. V.
15/05/23 → 8/12/23
Project: Research
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Public Embedded Emissions Accounting Framework Design
Aisbett, E., Borevitz, J., White, L. V. & White, L. V.
Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
17/04/23 → 1/12/23
Project: Research
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Embedded emissions accounting: frameworks for trade in a net-zero world
Aisbett, E., Bloomfield, W., Borevitz, J., Buss, W., Cheng, W., Howden, M. & White, L. V.
Australian Research Council (ARC), Climate Change Authority, Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Clean Energy Regulator
1/07/22 → 1/06/24
Project: Research
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Bringing to light the regulatory disparities for electricity access and services in remote Australia
White, L. V., Markham, F., O'Neill, L., Riley, B. & Wilson, S.
Energy Consumers Australia (ECA)
11/05/22 → 25/02/24
Project: Research
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Solar for renters: Investigating investor perspectives of barriers and policies
Hammerle, M., White, L. & Sturmberg, B., 2023, In: Energy Policy. 174Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Behind the Paper: Temperature extremes exacerbate energy insecurity – Australia needs to better support remote Indigenous communities to prepare now
Davis, V., Riley, B. & White, L., 2022Research output: Other contribution
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Subscribing to new technology: consumer preferences for short‑term ownership of electric vehicles **
Carrel, A., White, L., Gore, C. & Shah, H., 2022, In: Transportation. Online, Online, p. 1-35Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Temperature extremes exacerbate energy insecurity for Indigenous communities in remote Australia
Longden, T., Quilty, S., Riley, B., White, L., Klerck, M., Davis, V. & Jupurrurla, N. F., 2022, In: Nature Energy. 7, p. 11-12Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Temperature extremes exacerbate energy insecurity for Indigenous communities in remote Australia
Longden, T., Quilty, S., Riley, B., White, L., Klerck, M., Davis, V. & Jupurrurla, N. F., 2022, In: Nature Energy. 7, p. 11-DecResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article