Stephen Lezak

Programme Manager, Sustainable Future of Commodities & Infrastructure

Profile

Stephen is the Programme Manager for the Sustainable Future of Commodities & Infrastructure.

His essays, reporting, and research appear in several academic journals and edited books, as well as The New Republic, Emergence, Grist, The Independent, Alaska Public Media, High Country News, Colorado Public Radio, and The Arizona Republic. His research has been covered by The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Al Jazeera, The Times (UK), and translated into Spanish, Arabic, Mongolian, and Indonesian.

He served as an expert reviewer for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report and has advised two U.S. Presidential campaigns on climate policy.

Publications

Journal (6)

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Lezak S and Rock G, ‘On Micropolitics: Climate Adaptation and Indigenous Governance in Western Alaska’ (2024) 177 Climatic Change

Lezak S, ‘From Capacity Building to Capacity Sharing’ (2024) 7 Nature Sustainability 1

Lezak S and others, ‘The Case Against Gold Mining’ (2023) 18 Environmental Research Letters 011001

Lezak S and others, ‘Frameworks for Conflict Mediation in International Infrastructure Development: A Comparative Overview and Critical Appraisal’ (2019) 239 Journal of Cleaner Production

Lezak S, ‘David Sneath, Mongolia Remade: Post-Socialist National Culture, Political Economy, and Cosmopolitics’ (2019) 23 Nomadic Peoples 148

Lezak S, ‘Re-Placing the Desert in the Conservation Landscape: Charisma and Absence in the Gobi Desert’ (2019) 8 Land 3