Join the UCLA Luskin Center and Lewis Center in welcoming Island Press author, Richard W. Willson, as he discusses his new book, Parking Management for Smart Growth, over refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.REGISTER HEREAbout the book:The average parking space requires approximately 300 square feet of asphalt. That’s the size of a studio apartment in New York […]
Join the Los Angeles Sustainability Collaboration, the City of Los Angeles, and the Luskin Center for a first-person account from the City of Los Angeles’ Delegation to the 21st annual Conference of Parties (COP21). Moderated by J.R. DeShazo, director of the Luskin Center, this event will highlight insights about the negotiations and discuss how the […]
Join the UCLA Luskin Center, the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Creative Artists Agency, and the UCLA Office of Information Technology for a free screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap followed by a panel discussion with the renowned producers.REGISTER HEREDOCUMENTARY SYNOPSISCODE: DEBUGGING THEGENDER GAP exposes the dearth of American female and minority software engineers […]
Civil engineering infrastructure is aging and deteriorating, an issue, remediation of which involves huge maintenance and replacement costs. At the same time, due to the growth of the population/transportation, the need for infrastructure keeps increasing. These aspects need to be balances within the context of sustainability and reduction of CO2 emissions allocated to the construction […]
Ensuring Climate Equity for Low IncomeCalifornians April 1, 2016 UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355Co-hosted by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, Liberty Hill Foundation, and the SB 535 CoalitionREGISTER: https://www.regonline.com/ClimateEquity Lunch Keynote Assembly Member Jimmy GomezThe event will also feature the latest:Report Overview: California Climate Investments Using Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds Shelby Livingston, […]
Abstract (joint with ChrisKnittel) Despite widespread agreement that a carbon tax would be more efficient, many countries use fuel economy standards to reduce transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. We pair a simple model of the automobile manufacturers' profit maximization problem with unusually-rich nationally representative data on vehicle registrations to estimate the distributional impact of U.S. fuel economy […]
The Energy Innovation Conference is an annual event that brings together students, academics and professionals and seeks to showcase innovative technologies with the potential to reinvent the energy industry, enable entrepreneurs and researchers to demonstrate technology to investors and industry experts, and provide an atmosphere of collaborative learning through a panel format. We have partnered this year with UCLA Luskin, […]
Join the UCLA Luskin Center in welcoming James Salzman,Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, as he discusses his most recent book, Drinking Water: A History, over refreshments and lunch.REGISTER HEREPanel:James Salzman, Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law, UCLA LawJ.R. DeShazo, Director and Professor, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, UCLA Luskin School of Public […]
Luskin Center Director J.R. DeShazo to speak on Choice Architectures for Making Environmental-Motivated Pricing Policies More ImpactfulOn April 29th, over 250 leading behavioral scientists, policymakers, executives and press will gather together for the BSPA Annual Conference at The Mayflower Hotel in Washington DC.The Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) is a non-profit membership organization that promotes […]
Polaris is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on effective counter human trafficking strategies. Event speakers include Malika Saada Saar, Google's Senior Counsel for Civil and Human Rights, as well as Vanessa Bouche and Amy Farrell, authors of the recent report, "Identifying Effective Counter-Trafficking Programs and Practices in the U.S.: Legislative, Legal, and […]
