About

Celina M Scott-Buechler is an Accenture Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She is based at 201 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708, and can be contacted via email at celina.scott-buechler@duke.edu or by phone at (919) 613-7401. Her role involves teaching and research within the Sanford School of Public Policy, contributing to the academic community through her expertise in public policy.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Computer Science
• Biology
• Agroforestry
• Ecology
• Chemistry
• Environmental protection
• Fishery

Selected publications

• Communities conditionally support deployment of direct air capture for carbon dioxide removal in the United States

  Communications Earth & Environment · 2024 · 32 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Environmental science
  • Computer Science

  Abstract Direct air capture has gained traction as a method for carbon dioxide removal. How and whether direct air capture can be deployed requires securing social license to operate, and increasingly demands environmental justice and just transition principles. Here we use a nationally representative survey to evaluate public perceptions of direct air capture, paired with focus groups to assess community perceptions across four communities in the United States: Houston, Texas; Monaca, Pennsylvania; Bakersfield, California; and Rock Springs, Wyoming. We find conditional support for direct air capture deployment among focus group participants, and majority support for direct air capture deployment among national survey respondents. The most important determinants of project support were procedural justice elements—in particular community involvement in planning and implementation—and anticipated community benefits in the forms of local infrastructure and workforce development, supporting the need to center environmental justice and just transition principles into project planning and implementation. Where concerns over environmental and health implications are strong, direct air capture may not gain local social license to operate, especially in communities with previous negative experiences with industry.

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• Transforming the Future of Marine Aquaculture: A Circular Economy Approach

  Oceanography · 2022 · 38 citations

  • Environmental science
  • Environmental protection
  • Agroforestry

  By mid-century, society will need to significantly intensify the output of its food production system while simultaneously reducing that system’s detrimental impacts on climate, land use, freshwater resources, and biodiversity. This will require finding alternatives to carbon emissions-intensive agriculture, which provides the backbone of today’s global food production system. Here, we explore the hypothesis that marine algae-based aquaculture can help close the projected gap in society’s future nutritional demands while simultaneously improving environmental sustainability. Food production from marine algae-based aquaculture has the potential to contribute more than the total global protein demand projected for 2050, which ranges from 263.8 Mt/yr to 286.5 Mt/yr. It also offers important nutritional and environmental sustainability advantages relative to terrestrial agriculture. Marine algae can provide a better source of high-quality nutritional protein, essential amino acids, and other micronutrients relative to terrestrial plants. In addition, because marine algae do not require soil, irrigation, and the open application of fertilizer, their cultivation does not need to compete with agriculture for arable land and freshwater nor does it lead to fertilizer runoff and downstream eutrophication. Furthermore, by reducing agriculture’s demand for arable land and freshwater, marine algae-based aquaculture can reduce the pressure for deforestation, potentially leading to globally significant reductions in carbon emissions and biodiversity loss.

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Frequent coauthors

• Zackary I. Johnson

  Duke University

  49 shared

• Arjun Hausner

  Cornell University

  49 shared

• Charles S. Greene

  Cornell University

  49 shared

• Mark Huntley

  Luxel (United States)

  49 shared

• Grace Adcox

  8 shared

• Robert B. Jackson

  Stanford University

  8 shared

• Catherine Fraser

  Georgetown University

  8 shared

• Xin Gen Lei

  New York State College of Agriculture & Life Sciences

  7 shared

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