Westside Mayors 2013

The Westside cities - West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Culver City, and Santa Monica – are all on different but overlapping paths to bright futures.  Santa Monica is becoming Silicon Beach, Culver City welcomed the Expo Line, eclectic projects continue to break ground in West Hollywood, and Beverly Hills looks forward to cutting the ribbon on […]

Social & Environmental Justice Through Spatial Lenses

Social & Environmental Justice Through Spatial LensesApplying Knowledge of Space, Place & Networks to Equitable SolutionsA UCLA Luskin Faculty Executive Committee SymposiumThe Luskin Faculty Executive Committee sponsors an annual inter-departmental symposium linking scholarship to real-world practice to address critical issues. This year, UCLA and national experts will examine the use of spatial analysis to study how […]

UCLA COMPLETE STREETS FOR CALIFORNIA 2013 CONFERENCE

The UCLA Complete Streets for California conference on Thursday, February 28, 2013,will highlight recent accomplishments, explore new research, and presentimplementation examples and benchmarks to create multi-use street environmentsthat promote vibrant, healthy and active communities.Featuring Keynote Address from:Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of TransportationThe conference will provide information on Complete Streets issues […]

IoES/Luskin Lunch Research Seminar – Elizabeth DeLoughrey

"The Myth of Isolates: Ecosystem Ecologies in the Nuclear PacificElizabeth DeLoughrey, Associate ProfessorUniversity of California, Los AngelesDepartments of English, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Professor DeLoughrey joined the English Department in 2008. Her scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the NEH, Rockefeller, UCLA Global Studies Program, Fulbright, and the Cornell Society for the […]

Environmental Economics, Policy and Management Monthly Seminar Series: Dennis Aigner

Sustainabilityand Competitiveness in Mexico  Dennis J. Aigner University of California, Irvine and EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey and Antonio Lloret Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México January 2013  ABSTRACT This paper summarizes the findings of a research project aimed at benchmarking the environmental sustainability practices of the top 500 Mexican companies.  This was done by […]

IOES/Luskin Research Seminar- Yoram Cohen

"Smartwater systems for water sustainability: Incentives and Impediments" Yoram Cohen, Professor UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied ScienceUCLA Institute of the EnvironmentDirector, Water Technology Research CenterProfessor Yoram Cohen has been on the faculty of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 1981. He is the founder […]

Environmental Economics, Policy and Management Monthly Seminar Series: Ted Parson

TOPIC: Climate Engineering: Implications for global versuspartial climate cooperation.  Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment Edward (Ted) Parson comes to UCLA School of Law from the University of Michigan, where he was the Joseph L. Sax Collegiate Professor of Law, as well as […]

IOES/Luskin Research Seminar- Rich Ambrose

Topic: "Mitigating climate change by sequesteringcarbon in wetlands: scientific and policy issues"Rich Ambrose, ProfessorUCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public HealthDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Dr. Ambrose's research focuses on ways to protect and maintain the ecology of coastal areas. Current research focuses on (1) restoration of degraded habitats, […]

UC CEIN Nano EH&S Forum: Scientific Advances Towards Reducing Complexity in Decision Making

UC CEIN NanoEH&S Forum: Scientific Advances Towards Reducing Complexity in Decision Making Wednesday, May 8, 2013 UCLA California NanoSystems Institute Meeting Announcement   The University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (UC CEIN) is pleased to announce a one-day conference on recent advances in environmental health and safety of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENMs).   Target […]