Category: News
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Five UC Santa Cruz projects win California Climate Action Grant funding
The UC Santa Cruz campus newscenter shared that a roughly $1.6 million grant project will conduct a first-of-its kind study of how California’s housing crisis affects the growth of the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), where the fringes of development reach into natural areas.
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University of California, state partner to award climate action grants
The Santa Cruz Sentinel covered the University of California’s Climate Action Grant awards to UC Santa Cruz faculty and quoted Miriam Greenberg, principal investigator for the Wildland Urban Interface Research for Resilience project.