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Employment: WUI Jr. Specialist
Professor Miriam Greenberg in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Project Junior Specialist position.
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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.
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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.
