The research in our lab focuses on theoretical and practical aspects of spatial planning and decision making. Students in the laboratory lead socio-environmental policy research, with  a focus on climate-change and energy, water management, agricultural practices, and urban governance.

Lab members 

Na'ama Teschner, Head

Hillel Adler (MA): Energy security and de-carbonization in the age of climate change

Doron Azoot (MA): End-of-Life of solar PV systems: perceptions, impacts and solutions

Omri Carmon, PhD: Distributed Energy Resources and the Energy Trilemma

Elad Shaviv, PhD: Distributed Energy Resources: New actors & institutions

Noam Elad, PhD: the role of Net Zero in the climate change discourse

Graduated

Dr. Yael Teff-Seker: Planning regulation of wind turbines noise

Shahar Steinbah, MA: Possibilities and barriers to energy efficiency in the electricity sector

Ela Romov (MA): Ashalim solar farm: planning and Landscape Impact Assessment

Nethanel Ilani, (MA): Energy poverty and community resilience: Netivot as a case-study

Mevaseret Shani-Melamed (MA): Rivers restoration: Beer Sheva stream as a case-study