Projects
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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…
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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…
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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 area of the fastest housing growth in the U.S., with California leading in this growth. This is of major concern, since WUI housing…
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Urban-agrarian entanglements
Urban-agrarian entanglements Climate change is forcing a reconsideration of land use, infrastructural systems, and settlement across urban and agrarian space, with specific, grounded political demands coming from both sides that are often articulated in opposition to each other. Meanwhile, scholars of agrarian and urban studies are rarely in dialogue–despite the fact that places and people…
