It is a great pleasure to welcome Prof. Stephanie Pincetl, Professor in Residence, Founding
Director California Center for Sustainable Communities, Institute of the
Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
Unraveling Complex Urban Systems for a Transition to Just Sustainability: What are the Elements?
Sustainability has become widely adopted as a goal for
many cities. This term has many
meanings, or none at all! But the urgency to make cities less resource
intensive is greater than ever. We need
to refocus our attention on what we need to know to move cities to greater
sustainability, in a way that is also more equitable for its inhabitants. This
talk will lay out elements for a multi-dimensional empirical understanding for
a transition to greater sustainability. They include: reflexive investigation
of the epistemological underpinnings of sustainability science, considering urban
nature, measuring resource flows into cities, their supply chain impacts, and
use, unraveling the hard and soft infrastructures that co-produce cities, and
finally examining how transitions can take place toward greater and more
equitable urban sustainability.
Chair: Prof. Rob Krueger
When: May 27, 18:00
Where: Walfer Campus, Bât X, Rm 034
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