LCI Aims to Help Shape President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative

Report by Luskin Center for Innovation provides framework for environmental justice in disadvantaged communities.
Image of heat mapping for Watts, LA

Turner and Colleagues Receive Grant to Pinpoint Sources of Heat Injustice

Through modeling, data and storytelling, researchers will explore why historically redlined neighborhoods face extreme heat burdens today.

Researchers Call for Attention to ‘Heat Governance’ to Protect Those Most at Risk from Extreme Heat

V. Kelly Turner and coauthors outline necessary components of an equitable strategy to address extreme heat

Symposium Convenes Climate Adaptation Experts Amid Intensifying Heat, Fires and Floods

With 24 virtual sessions, the symposium featured the research and expertise of 98 speakers across the social sciences, including economics, geography, public health, urban planning and public policy.

Study Illuminates Ways to Narrow the Clean Energy Gap in Southern California

High Temperatures Increase Workers’ Injury Risk, Whether They’re Outdoors or Inside

The finding reflects another consequence of climate change, according to new study led by R. Jisung Park of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and Luskin Public Policy

Both Change and Continuity in Our Executive Leadership Team

Heat Exacerbates Educational Divide, Park Finds

It’s Time to Protect Cities From Extreme Heat, Turner Writes

Transformative Climate Communities Build Resilience During Pandemic

New UCLA reports find that local knowledge, partnerships and trust that TCC partners have in their communities allowed them to identify changing needs and respond quickly during the pandemic.