Greg Pauly studies the natural history, evolution, and conservation of reptiles and amphibians. His research interests include phylogenetics, systematics, conservation genetics, the evolution of mating signals in frogs, and the impacts of urbanization on reptiles and amphibians.
Sanja Pekovic
Sanja Pekovic (PhD, Paris-EST) is Assistant Professor at the University of Montenegro and associate researcher at the Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University, Paris. She is conducting research on quality and environmental management, the economics of innovation, corporate social responsibility, and applied econometrics. Her work has appeared in international journals such as the Ecological Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Long Range Planning, Resource and Energy Economics.
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Gregory Pierce
Greg Pierce is the Co-Director of the Luskin Center for Innovation (LCI) and serves as a Senior Researcher, leading LCI’s Water, Environmental Equity and Transportation programs. He is also an an IoES Affiliate Faculty and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning. Greg received a PhD in Urban Planning in 2015 and an MA in Urban Planning in 2011, both from UCLA.
Dr. Pierce’s research on basic resource/service provision and access for disadvantaged or marginalized populations takes place at three connected scales, with sectoral foci on water and transport. At the sub-national or state scale, Dr. Pierce employs formal policy design techniques to evaluate and inform service provision strategies formulated by national sub-national agencies. At the metropolitan scale, political economy analysis is employed to assess programs and plans which allocate services to specific neighborhoods and households. Finally, in response to sub-national and metropolitan scale failures, Dr. Pierce’s research utilizes rational choice and behavior models to analyze low-income urban and households strategies to secure access to and utilize these basic services and programs.
Current and past sponsors of this work include the California State Water Resources Control Board, the California Air Resources Board, the Strategic Growth Council, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department, WaterAid, the Water Foundation, The Resources Legacy Fund, Environment Now, the DiCaprio Foundation, the World Bank, the UC Multicampus Research Initiative, the UC Institute of Transportation Studies and the UCLA Grand Challenge.
Greg is the author of 30+ peer-reviewed articles, including in the Journal of the American Planning Association, the Journal of Planning Education and Research, the Journal of Planning Literature, Environmental Justice, Journal of Environmental Planning, Science of the Total Environment, Water Resources Research, Development Policy Review, the Journal of International Development, Housing Policy Debate, Land Use Policy, Transport Policy and Water Policy.
Stephanie Pincetl
Stephanie Pincetl is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and Founding Director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA.
Dr. Pincetl conducts research on environmental policies and governance and analyzes how institutional rules construct how natural resources and energy are used to support human activities and create Earth Systems impacts. Her focus is on social and environmental justice and the need to develop equitable strategies to reduce human impacts on the planet. She is expert in bringing together interdisciplinary teams of researchers across the biophysical and engineering sciences with the social sciences to address problems of complex urban systems and environmental management.
Dr. Pincetl has written extensively about land use in California, environmental justice, habitat conservation efforts, urban metabolism water and energy policy. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation to conduct collaborative research with biophysical scientists on urban ecology and water management in Los Angeles, as well as from the California Energy Commission to develop a methodology to understand energy use in communities in California coupled with social policy considerations (see www.energyatlas.ucla.edu). Her book, Transforming California, the Political History of Land Use in the State, is the definitive work on land use politics and policies of California. She was a co-lead on the urban chapter of the National 2nd State of the North American Carbon Cycle Report, improving the understanding of how complex urban systems are dependent on carbon based fuels and their contribution to climate change.
Dr. Pincetl has a PhD in Urban Planning from UCLA. She spent 10 years working in the nonprofit environmental justice sector and has taught in the Masters of Public Affairs at the Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris. Pincetl is the Faculty Director of the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability (LARC), a Los Angeles regional organization dedicated to working across jurisdictions to achieve a better future. She was instrumental in making the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA its institutional home.
In recognition of her intellectual leadership in the field of urban sustainability, coupled with real-world problem solving as exemplified by the Energy Atlas, Pincetl received the prestigious Burrill Award from the American Association of Geographers at the annual 2019 meeting in Washington DC.
Pincetl has been awarded the 2020 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Geography Department at the University of Manchester. She has also been asked to join the Editorial Board of the journal Applied Energy, one of the most highly cited energy journals in the world.
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The Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2) was released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) on Friday, November 23, 2018. Dr. Stephanie Pincetl was one of 200 contributing experts to this interagency Highly Influential Scientific Assessment led by the Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) and U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program under USGCRP auspices.
See her work in Chapter 4, “Understanding Urban Carbon Fluxes”
Groundwater and a Sustainable LA: A Roadmap to Living Without Surface Water Imports, June 8, 2018
Alexandria Pivovaroff
Alex Pivovaroof is a plant eco-physiologist specializing in water relations, hydraulics, and functional traits. A California native herself, she is particularly interested in the California Floristic Province and other Mediterranean-type climate regions.
As a La Kretz Center postdoc, Alex studied how plants respond to changes in their environment. Her research focused on live fuel moisture, an important fire behavior trait. She also worked on a collaborative project monitoring plant carbon and water fluxes to determine how native species will respond to climate change.
Alex earned her Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of California Riverside, where as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow she studied chaparral and coastal sage scrub responses to drought and nitrogen deposition. She also holds a B.A. in Biology from Whittier College.
Alex continued her work as a postdoctoral associate at the Pacific Northwest National Lab, and is now an Assistant Professor for the Biology department at Occidental College.