A workshop on entrepreneurship and academic skills acquisition is organized on April 5th 2023 in Yaounde, Cameroon. The workshop will touch the following topics: For additional information please reach out…
UCLA-led study reveals a ‘geography of inequality’ across region’s coastal areas
On March 7, 2023, the UCLA Water Resources Group celebrated two new faculty members to UCLA whose research includes water, Dr. Alvar Escriva-Bou and Dr. Alesia Montgomery. This event was…
Emma Akmakdjian is a student in Dr. Pincetl’s ENV297 class. She’s an installation artist who collaborates with scientists to translate processes of complex ecosystems, climate data, and object personifications in…
UCLA study suggests emissions from basic American diet are equivalent to driving a car up to 20 miles per day
Elijah Catalan has been selected for a 2023 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA), which is sponsored by the Ecological Society of America. Along with 15 other graduate…
A new report details how Quemetco — the last remaining secondary lead smelter in California — has exploited a failed regulatory structure that does little to protect people and the environment.…
A new book edited by the UCLA anthropologist explores how people respond to volcanoes, epidemics and droughts
Check out the innovative conservation research projects, stimulating public outreach events, and exciting funding programs that the center has supported over the past year!
The Congo Basin Institute (CBI) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) seek a consultant or consultant team to assess what potential land use classification(s) under Cameroonian law could…
A new paper was published highlighting the importance of further conservation efforts in maintaining the biodiversity of Lepidoptera (butterfly) and other understudied insects in the Central African Region. Read the…
Dr. Stephanie Pincetl, director of the CCSC, and Sebastián Solarte-Caicedo, Ph.D. student in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, participated in the Energy Communities Workshop Series, an event organized…
Vital Impacts presents the Environmental Photography Grants. Application’s are now open for two $20,000 grants that will support and encourage visual storytellers to create a long-term documentary photography project with…
UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said: “This well may be the largest single-event snowfall in some parts of Southern California since the 1980s. “This is a big deal.” He added:…
Who gets to make those decisions (and how) is the focus of ethnographer Alesia Montgomery, a new faculty member at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. Racialized, low-income communities…
UCLA professor Susanna Hecht has won the 2023 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity from the American Association of Geographers. The award is presented annually to a geographer who has demonstrated…
UCLA researchers say climate change could accelerate slightly if dust levels stop climbing
The Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award community brings together brilliant minds from around the world to share what they’ve learned. At the annual award ceremony, nominees place some of their…
Atmospheric rivers are very important — “the main source for moisture for the western part of the U.S., especially the coastal states,” said Alex Hall, director of the Center for…
National boundaries are an unavoidable modern invention that impact the fate of Earth’s natural resources
Demonstration in L.A. ports show that non-academics can use the fast, inexpensive genetic test
Dr. Mikhail Chester hosts Dr. Stephanie Pincetl, whose work engages a multitude of disciplines (from engineers to urban planners to economists) to advance urban sustainability science and decision-making for water, energy, transportation, and land use systems. She explores how understanding and synthesizing these diverse systems surrounding our complex urban systems opens opportunities for future alternatives.
With climate change making heat waves longer and more severe, Los Angeles County has for several years provided cooling centers — many of which are in libraries, parks or other…
