Publications
2026
Jermak, M. E., Ramshankar, A. T., Cribb, S. B., Ashton, W., Patterson, R., Bednar, D., ... & Bozeman III, J. F. (2026). A critical review of S-LCA methods since the UNEP, 2020 guidelines: lingering challenges in the search for standardization. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 1-18.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44498-026-00081-5 (Open Access)
2024
Nock, D., Jones, A. J., Bouzarovski, S., Thomson, H., & Bednar, D. J. (2024). Reducing energy burden in the power sector: Metrics for assessing energy poverty. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, 22(4), 26-37.
Hoesch, K. W., Bessette, D. L., & Bednar, D. J. (2024). Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan. Energy Research & Social Science, 113, 103569.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214629624001609
2023
Bednar, D. J., & Reames, T. G. (2023). Fleeting energy protections: state and utility level policy responses to energy poverty in the United States during COVID-19. Energy Research & Social Science, 99, 103045.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629623001056
Montañés, C. C., O’Shaughnessy, E., Bednar, D., Nock, D., Carley, S., Kammen, D. M., & Konisky, D. M. (2023). Enabling and centering equity and justice in clean energy transition research. Joule, 7(3), 437-441.
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00074-0 (Open Archive)
Bednar, D. J. Energy Poverty Recognition and Responses: Pathways towards a Just Transition for Workers and Communities. Prepared for “Go Green Fast: Global Lessons for the Clean Energy Transition”.
Montañés, C. C., O’Shaughnessy, E., Bednar, D., Nock, D., Carley, S., Kammen, D. M., & Konisky, D. M. (2023). Enabling and centering equity and justice in clean energy transition research. Joule, 7(3), 437-441.
https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00074-0 (Open Access)
2021
Bednar, D. (2021). Towards Energy Justice: A Multidimensional Analysis of Energy Poverty Recognition and Responses in the United States (Doctoral dissertation).
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/2379f857-1f4c-42a6-ba71-c2f3a0b7f0a4
2020
Bednar, D. J., & Reames, T. G. (2020). Recognition of and response to energy poverty in the United States. Nature Energy, 5(6), 432-439.
2017
Bednar, D. J., Reames, T. G., & Keoleian, G. A. (2017). The intersection of energy and justice: Modeling the spatial, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic patterns of urban residential heating consumption and efficiency in Detroit, Michigan. Energy and Buildings, 143, 25-34.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378778817308435
2016
Miller, W. A., Bednar, D.J., Boudreaux, P., Pallin, S., Biswas, K., Gehl, T., Atchley, J., ... & Talele, M. (2016). A field study setup of four homes having non-ventilated and semi-conditioned sealed attics. Journal of Green Building, 11(3), 1-20.
https://jgb.kglmeridian.com/view/journals/jgrb/11/3/article-p1.xml (Open Access)
Bednar, D. (2016). The Intersection of Energy and Justice: Exploring the Spatial, Racial, and Socioeconomic Patterns of Residential Heating Affordability, Consumption and Efficiency in Wayne County, Michigan (Masters’ Thesis).
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/items/17421c2d-cb64-44a0-8e0d-052fc8d21028 (Open Access)