Marissa Bell

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication

Dr. Marissa Bell is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her research examines public engagement in scientific and technological decision-making and knowledge production. She is particularly interested in how place and context shape the effectiveness of engagement practices in the domain of environmental governance and sustainability. Marissa's current research examines how to facilitate interconnection and mutually beneficial collaboration between academia, policy, and the broader public through Cornell’s extension system. She holds a BA in Geography from King’s College London, and an MA and PhD in Geography from the University at Buffalo, where she studied the implementation of community-engaged nuclear waste siting policy in Canada.

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marissa.bell [at] cornell.edu

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Publications

Journal Publications

Bell, Marissa Z. (2021) Spatialising procedural justice: fairness and local knowledge mobilisation in nuclear waste siting. Local Environment 26.1: 165-180.

Other Publications

Bell, Marissa Z. (2021) Energy Justice, Nuclear Landscapes, and Consent: An Examination of Canadian Nuclear Waste Siting. PhD Dissertation. University at Buffalo.

Bell, MZ. (2021) Local recommendations and lessons learned from Canadian Nuclear Waste Siting: The importance of Contextually-Aware Practices. Policy Brief.

Presentations and Activities

Parameters of Participation in the Construction of Nuclear Waste Siting in Canada. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). Toronto, Canada. October, 2021.

Extension, Communication and Community Empowerment. 4th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Green Development in Tropical Regions (4th IICGDTR). Universitas Andalas, Indonesia. July 2021.

The Epistemic Tensions of Nuclear Waste Siting in a Nuclear Landscape. Science and Democracy Network 2021 Annual Meeting. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. June 2021.

Spatializing Procedural Justice: Embeddedness, Fairness and Local Knowledge Mobilization in Nuclear Waste Siting. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. April, 2021.

Energy Geography: Future projections, possible directions. American Association of Geographers, April 2021.

Invited Panelist. A Regional Systems Approach that Expands the Reach of Geography to Collaborate with Stakeholders. American Association of Geographers, April 2021.

Nuclear Waste: Landscapes and Timescapes. Society for Applied Anthropology/Political Ecology Society, March 2021.

Marissa Bell

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