New article exploring the links between urban agriculture and potential gentrification led by Jason Hawes has been featured as a research highlight in Nature Plants. The authors studied urban gardens in Detroit, Michigan, to answer whether gentrification is linked to the creation of home and community gardens and to find quantitative evidence for where […]
Recent USRG work by Jake Hawes, Dimitrios Gounaridis and Joshua Newell has been featured by WDET, the Detroit NPR station. After creating the first map of community and private gardens across the entire city of Detroit, Hawes and Gounaridis used spatial regression to assess garden equity and test for signs of garden-driven gentrification. The study, […]
By Greta Guest | Michigan News | gguest@umich.edu | May 25, 2022. A wide-scale look at Detroit’s urban gardens finds that while they don’t seem to foreshadow gentrification in the city, there are some unsettling trends about where they’re located and the sociodemographics in those areas. For example, home and community gardens are more […]
By Jim Erickson | Michigan News | April 4, 2022 | ericksn@umich.edu Study: Ecosystem services of urban agriculture and prospects for scaling up production: A study of Detroit. This story was originally published by Michigan News. Despite Detroit’s reputation as a mecca for urban agriculture, a new University of Michigan-led analysis of the city’s […]
By Denise Spranger | January 20, 2022 SEAS and Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) faculty received three of the 17 Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) grants awarded by the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) in 2021. “MIDAS is a University of Michigan (U-M)-wide institute with 420 affiliated faculty from 60 departments,” […]
By Jim Erickson | Michigan News | Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers used data from 60 million individual United States households to look into how carbon emissions resulting from household energy use vary by race and ethnicity across the country. […]
By Frédérique Mazerolle, McGill University | November 23, 2021 Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers from McGill University and the University of Michigan has used data from 60 million individual American households to look into how carbon emissions caused by household […]
Professors Runzi Wang and Joshua Newell of the School for Environment and Sustainability are among numerous U-M professors whose projects are being funded through the U-M Graham Sustainability Institute’s catalyst grants. The grants provide support for small-scale, collaborative, and interdisciplinary sustainability research. Read more here.
A study published by University of Michigan researchers, including Joshua Newell at the School for Environment and Sustainability, quantifies the air pollution that impacts Latinx communities in California due to beef production. Newell and his co-authors—Benjamin Goldstein, a former SEAS post-doctoral researcher who is now an assistant professor at McGill University, and Sanaz Chamanara, […]
The homes of wealthy Americans generate about 25% more greenhouse gases than residences in lower-income neighborhoods, mainly due to their larger size. In the nation’s most affluent suburbs, those emissions can be as much as 15 times higher than in nearby lower-income neighborhoods. Those estimates come from a new study of 93 million American […]