Environmental Inequality


The Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability at Duke University accelerates solutions to critical energy and environmental challenges, advancing a more just, resilient, and sustainable world.
The Nicholas Institute conducts and supports actionable research and undertakes sustained engagement with policymakers, businesses, and communities—in addition to delivering transformative educational experiences to empower future leaders. The Nicholas Institute’s work is aligned with the Duke Climate Commitment, which unites the university’s education, research, operations, and external engagement missions to address climate challenges.
Martin Doyle is the director of the Water Policy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability and a professor of river science and policy at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He is also the coconvenor and organizer of the Aspen-Nicholas Water Forum programming and coleads (with Newsha Ajami) the Aspen National Water Affordability Strategy Initiative.
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson’s Bay Empire
Why? As an aging canoeist and former Quetico canoe guide (in a previous life), I am inordinately fascinated with all things related to voyageurs. The fact that so much of Canada’s early history, and the effects on so many of our northern ecosystems, were set in motion by the value of beaver pelts in Europe still staggers the mind.
Also, I still read and reread anything by the political theorist Francis Fukuyama, whose most recent book, Liberalism and its Discontents, is profoundly important.