News & Events
-
Today’s Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Demographic Profiles of California’s Central Coast
Research Brief | Today’s Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI): Demographic Profiles of California’s Central Coast
-
Alumna Tonje Switzer receives Green Heart Award for CZU complex fire and Santa Cruz storm recovery efforts
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Project partner and Santa Cruz Long Term Recovery Group Executive Director Tonje Switzer (Oakes ’16, sociology) was awarded the Mountain Affair’s Green Heart Award in October.
-
The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity Book Review Forum
This Book Review Forum represents a joint effort between Berkeley Black Geographies, based in the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley and facilitated by Jovan Scott Lewis, and the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) Black Geographies Lab, based in the Department of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz and cofacilitated by Camilla Hawthorne.…
-
A Pre-History of CUES
A Pre-History of CUES: Critical Urban-Environmental Research and Activism in the Social Sciences at UC Santa Cruz By Will Parrish and James Sirigotis, with Hillary Angelo and Miriam Greenberg. The University of California, Santa Cruz, has a rich history of critical urban and environmental scholarship and activism. In the Social Sciences, this legacy is most…
-
Is there a Santa Cruz School of Political Ecology?
Is there a Santa Cruz School of Political Ecology? An intellectual and political history The University of California, Santa Cruz has a rich history of critical environmental scholarship and activism, perhaps most visibly institutionalized in the collective founding of Capitalism Nature Socialism by Jim O’Connor and his students in 1988. In addition, the campus’s heterodox…
-
Relational geographies of urban unsustainability: The entanglement of California’s housing crisis with WUI growth and climate change
In a new article for the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, UC Santa Cruz researchers laid out the foundation for their highly-anticipated upcoming study of how lack of affordable housing in urban areas of California may be driving increased development in and near wildlands, leading to more severe climate change impacts. Read more in this campus…
-
UC study addresses the nexus of the housing crisis, climate change, and habitat loss
The UC Newsroom covered the Wildland Urban Interface Research for Resilience project a large-scale, interdisciplinary study to understand how lack of affordable housing in urban areas and increased pressure for housing beyond the city limits affects the growth of the wildland urban interface (WUI), where the fringes of development reach into natural areas.
-
An overlooked side-effect of the housing crisis may be putting Californians at increased risk from climate disasters
The UC Santa Cruz campus newscenter shared that a lack of affordable housing in urban areas of California may be driving increased development in and near wildlands, leading to more severe climate change impacts.
-
Housing + Habitat Resource Fair
Events + Resource Fairs As part of the Wildlands Urban Interface (WUI) Research for Resilience: Addressing California’s Climate, Conservation & Housing Crises initiative, the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies, together with the Santa Cruz County Long Term Recovery Group and other aligned community grassroots and government organizations, hosted Housing and Habitat Community Resource…
-
Housing + Habitat Survey
Housing + Habitat Survey The Housing + Habitat Survey took place throughout Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito Counties in 2024-2025. As a key component of the broader WUI Research for Resilience project, the survey focused on those living in the wildland urban interface or “WUI,” the area where housing mixes in with or is…
