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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.
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Center co-founders featured on ASA podcast about Environmentalizing Urban Sociology
Center co-founders featured on ASA podcast about Environmentalizing Urban Sociology Hillary Angelo, co-founder and inaugural director, and Miriam Greenberg, co-founder and assistant director, were interviewed on the American Sociological Association podcast, City & Community, about their new co-edited special issue, “Environmentalizing Urban Sociology.” The open-access introduction is available through Sage Journals.
