Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the AAG 

Welcome to the Energy and Environment Specialty Group (EESG) of the American Association of Geographers! 

On behalf of the Energy and Environment Specialty Group executive committee and advisory board, we want to extend a very warm welcome.

This website serves as a resource and point of entry for a community of scholars, educators and practitioners working on energy and environment related issues. Our specialty group serves to expand the reach of our members research, offer financial support and awards, provide a space for sharing educational material, while hosting various events. 

We would love to hear from our members on how we can better serve our community, so if you have ideas please email aag.eesg@gmail.com            

Please continue to check this website for updates and also follow us on Bluesky: @AAG-Energy.bsky.social.

Warm regards from the EESG team: Tiffany Grobelski, Johanna Engström, Maddy Kroot, Salma Elmallah, Samuel Ayivi, Kristin Schoenecker, and Jong-Ku Park.

 Announcements: 

• Registration is open for the 2026 Energy Geographies Conference! Join us virtually on Saturday, September 26, 2026 for a keynote by Dr. Emily Grubert, panel discussion, and paper sessions. Register and view the program here.

• We recently updated our specialty group bylaws. You can read our updated bylaws here.

• New EESG leadership was voted in during the 2026 AAG EESG business meeting! We would like to congratulate Johanna Engström (Co-Chair), Salma Elmallah (Treasurer), Kristin Schoenecker (Graduate Student Representative), Jong-Ku Park (Graduate Student Representative), and Emmanuel Kofi Ackom (Board of Advisors). We also thank our outgoing leadership members for their dedicated service to EESG.

Our Mission

The Energy and Environment Specialty Group enhances energy and environmental

geography scholarship, practice and education by inviting and supporting contributions

from diverse scholars, practitioners, educators and activists. Our community highlights the

critical importance of context-specific perspectives to advance understandings of energy

and environmental scholarship. 

Our Vision

The Energy and Environment Specialty Group aims to be an inclusive, accessible and

diverse community of scholars, educators, practitioners and activists who engage in

energy and environmental issues and scholarship.

Our Values

In perpetuity, EESG is committed to climate action and the principles of justice, equity,

diversity, inclusion and decolonization. We are also committed to fostering a culture of

care, reciprocity and relationality in our scholarship and practice. Further, we seek to

abolish extractive and exploitative relations with the people and places of the energy

geographies we work, which includes academia itself.