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  • Relational geographies of urban unsustainability: The entanglement of California’s housing crisis with WUI growth and climate change
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    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
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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.

  • An overlooked side-effect of the housing crisis may be putting Californians at increased risk from climate disasters
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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.

  • Housing + Habitat Resource Fair

    Housing + Habitat Resource Fair

    Housing + Habitat 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, will host Housing and Habitat…

  • Housing + Habitat Survey

    Housing + Habitat Survey

    Housing + Habitat Survey The Housing + Habitat Survey will be taking 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 focuses on those living in the wildland urban interface or “WUI,” the area where housing mixes in with…

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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.

  • A Conjunctural Mapping of People’s Park

    A Conjunctural Mapping of People’s Park

    Following calls to spatialize conjunctures, this article proposes and practices conjunctural mapping through a case study of the ongoing struggle at People’s Park in Berkeley, California. Although the method of conjunctural analysis enables and requires an investigation into the multiple forces at work in the production of hegemony, such analyses tend to focus on cultural,…

  • Ethnographic Diaries: Capturing the Everyday in Crisis

    Ethnographic Diaries: Capturing the Everyday in Crisis

    This ethnographic project was published through the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) in collaboration with Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal, and produced by the ACSS working group on “Ethnography and Knowledge in the Arab Region.” Read the Ethnographic Diaries co-authored by Aida Mukharesh. Aida is currently a PhD Candidate in Sociology…

  • Press related to Hillary Angelo’s Boomtown and Transition Geographies and Politics
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    Press related to Hillary Angelo’s Boomtown and Transition Geographies and Politics

    Press related to Hillary Angelo’s Boomtown and Transition Geographies and Politics CUES’s inaugural director Hillary Angelo has published a cover story for Harper’s Magazine related to her research on climate change and public lands and CUES’s work on transition geographies and politics. You can hear her discuss the article, and how and why we often…

  • Environmentalizing Urban Sociology

    Environmentalizing Urban Sociology

    Read the journal article here. Urban sociology, like sociology as a whole, has traditionally excluded the natural environment. The Chicago School notoriously treated external nature as a metaphor for human society in its “human ecology” paradigm, while naturalizing urban inequality, segregation, and power relations. Such canonical and “de-natured” understandings of urban environments still pervade much…

  • Can Cities Save the Planet?

    Can Cities Save the Planet?

    Can Cities Save the Planet? While fears of global warming and environmental catastrophe loom ever greater, urban areas continue to expand unevenly. And, in the face of environmental crisis and urban crisis, the ideal of the ‘sustainable city’ is taking a leading role in urban planning and policy discourse. In terms of urban form, policymakers…

  • Wildland Urban Interface [WUI] Research for Resilience

    Wildland Urban Interface [WUI] Research for Resilience

    Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Research for Resilience: Addressing California’s Climate, Conservation & Housing Crises The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) —where human development mixes in with or abuts undeveloped natural areas— is the fastest growing area of housing growth in California, as well as a leading cause of wildfire, habitat fragmentation, and climate change. Yet there…

Last modified: Sep 18, 2024