Congratulations to Professor Nives Dolšak and SMEA Alum Sophia Amberson on their latest publications!

Dolšak’s paper titled “Factors impacting investments in energy efficiency and clean technologies: Empirical evidence from Slovenian manufacturing firms” examines factors impacting firms’ decisions to invest in energy efficiency and clean technologies. Based on the paper’s findings, it can be concluded that the energy efficiency gap is less likely to exist in large and well-performing firms, implying that policy measures should primarily target less energy intensive, small and medium-sized enterprises.

Amberson’s article “’The Heartbeat of Our People’: Identifying and Measuring How Salmon Influences Quinault Tribal Well-Being” presents the results of a case study in the Quinault Indian Nation (QIN) in Washington State that focused on two questions: (1) What are the diverse attributes of tribal well-being associated with salmon?; and (2) How might we measure them to develop indicators to influence natural resource management (NRM)? Professor Patrick Christie was a co-author of this paper.