Christopher Galik

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Bio

Christopher Galik joined NC State in August 2016 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Sustainable Energy Systems and Policy (SESP). Galik is a professor in the Department of Public Administration, and is primarily interested in the areas of institutions and governance. He brings an interdisciplinary perspective to his work, leveraging expertise in institutional theory, economics, and the natural sciences to address energy and environmental management and policy challenges. Recent research includes an evaluation of institutional stability in environmental governance, the influence of historical transitions on the adoption of sustainable practices at the local level, and the contribution of voluntary actions to climate change mitigation objectives.

Galik obtained a bachelor’s degree in biology from Vassar College, a master’s degree in resource economics and policy from Duke University, and a Ph.D. in forestry and environmental resources from North Carolina State University. Galik returns to NC State via Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, where he worked for a decade on a variety of environmental and energy policy research and outreach initiatives. He has published multiple whitepapers, briefs, and online discussion papers, as well as articles in journals such as Nature Climate Change, Global Environmental Change, Climate Policy, Applied Energy, Energy Policy, and others. Galik has also worked with private sector, NGO, academic, state government, and federal agency stakeholders to plan and convene multiple panels, workshops, and symposia on a wide variety of energy and environmental policy issues.

Office Hours

• Wed: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• Thu: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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Publications

• Individual and interlinked SDGs: higher education institutions and metro area sustainability performance , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION (2024)
• Historical industrial transitions influence local sustainability planning, capability, and performance , Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions (2023)
• Institutional stability and change in environmental governance , POLICY AND POLITICS (2023)
• Planning for winter peaking power systems in the United States , Energy Policy (2023)
• Accounting Considerations for Capturing the GHG Consequences of BECCS , (2022)
• Crediting temporary forest carbon: Retrospective and empirical perspectives on accounting options , FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE (2022)
• From 'Think' to 'Do': Operationalizing the SDGs across the Curriculum at North Carolina State University , UN Chronicle (2022)
• Historical manufacturing volatility and local sustainability efforts: A link to the past , GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS (2022)
• When burning wood to generate energy makes climate sense , BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS (2022)
• Major US electric utility climate pledges have the potential to collectively reduce power sector emissions by one-third , ONE EARTH (2021)

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