Sara Meerow recently received a Rackham International Research Award to support her dissertation fieldwork in Manila, Philippines. Sara departs for Manila in May, where she will be examining green infrastructure and resilience planning in the vulnerable coastal megacity.
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Joshua Cousins receives teaching award
Joshua Cousins was selected by the faculty and administration of SNRE to receive The Superior Teaching Award. Established in 1993, this annual award is made to one graduate student in the School of Natural Resources and Environment in recognition of their outstanding contributions to teaching during the academic year.
Joshua Cousins receives two research awards
Joshua Cousins recently received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support his final year of research and writing. The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and risk-taking. Joshua was also awarded the Trent R. Dames Civil Engineering History Fellowship at The Huntington Library for his research project entitled “Of Floods and Droughts: The nature of technology and the transformation of stormwater in Los Angeles, 1862-Present”. The fellowship provides two months of support to conduct archival research at The Huntington.
Newell speaks at Arizona State University on the Political-Industrial Ecology of urban water supply
Joshua Newell speaks at The School of Sustainability, Arizona State University
“In this talk, Newell will use a political-industrial ecology approach to more fully delineate the urban water supply metabolism of Los Angeles, which sprawls for thousands of miles across the American West. He will reflect on the potential of the urban metabolism concept to provide an interdisciplinary architecture for the fields of urban ecology, political ecology, and industrial ecology.”
Public Lecture by Dr. Kate Derickson on resilience and environmental justice
The Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop on Urban Sustainability and Resilience presents a special lecture by Kate Derickson, Assistant Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at the University of Minnesota.
“Resilience is not enough: toward a politics of resourcefulness for environmental justice”
March 19th, 2:30-4:00pm
Dana 1046
March 19th, 2:30-4:00pm
Dana 1046
Abstract: In this talk Dr. Derickson will argue that the concept of resilience is inadequate for promoting social justice in and for historically marginalized communities and propose the concept of “resourcefulness” as an alternative frame. Resourcefulness, as she uses it, serves as both a normative ideal and an ethical practice of scholarly research. Based on collaborative work with communities in Glasgow, Scotland and Atlanta, Georgia, she illustrates the ways in which such communities are meaningfully disadvantaged in terms of shaping urban and environmental futures, and argue that knowledge production practices should be explicitly aimed at remediating those disadvantages.
Newell gives talk at Architectural League of New York
Newell gives an invited talk at the Architectural League of New York and the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design’s Five Thousand Pound Life Water Symposium in New York City.
Research Group Master’s Student Named 2015 Dow Sustainability Fellow
Dana Wall received the 2015 Dow Sustainability Fellowship, and will conduct a year-long project to explore sustainability issues with other interdisciplinary fellows.
Newell Featured in Next City
Josh Newell comments on the under utilization of alleys in this article for Next City.
“The residents of South Los Angeles were initially a bit skeptical about the idea of green alleys. “When we first started talking to community members, they were like, ‘No way,’” says Tori Kjer, a program director of the Trust for Public Land. After all, alleys are often seen as forbidding places in cities. “They’re traditionally very much overlooked spaces for people to put out that couch they don’t want or for weeds to grow,” says Kjer. It was hard for people to imagine them as inviting or useful.”
Newell Receives National Institute of Food and Agriculture Grant
Josh Newell was awarded a grant of $55,000 for his current research on urban forest ecosystems as equitable green infrastructure for the Detroit region.
Wolch Featured in Co.Design
Jennifer Wolch comments on what is “just green enough”, and the concept of “eco-gentrification” in this article for Fast Company.
“On the three Es of sustainability—ecology, economy, and equity—the High Line in New York passes the first two with flying colors. The elevated-railroad-turned-park has brought a fresh mix of plants, flowers, birds, and insects to the once-drab West Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. It has also attracted billions in financial investments, with area property values increasing 103 % between 2003 and 2011, Great Recession be damned.”