Thor Jensen

Post-doctoral Researcher in the PICS / Built Environment Project

Thor Jensen is a postdoctoral fellow at UBC, where he researches how changes to capital markets may support or inhibit institutional investment in the built environment. The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and the University Sustainability Institute at UBC fund his research.

PICS Publications

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Jensen, Thor and Dowlatabadi, Hadi. (2018). “Challenges in financing public sector low-carbon initiatives: lessons from private finance for a school district in British Columbia, Canada”. Climate Policy, 18(7), 878--888. doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2017.1387512
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Jensen, Thor. (2015). The adoption of ground source heat pumps at multiple scales in North America [Thesis] University of British Columbia.

Projects

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Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment

The built environment is a complex intertwined multi-scale system of cities, towns and neighbourhoods whose energy performance and emissions are shaped by factors such as land use, building design, infrastructure and the behaviour of its inhabitants.