Book Picks for April-May 2021
Let’s read All We Can Save and The Nature of Desert Nature for April and May 2021!
From the Black Death to AIDS, pandemics have shaped human history. Coronavirus will too
Marlon Boarnet was quoted in the Los Angeles Times about how pandemics have shaped cities.
What promises do we have to keep? : A Call for Bipartisan Action on Climate Change
by Casey Fischl Across the globe, countries acknowledge climate change as a scientific fact and have been implementing mitigation and adaptation strategies as per their commitment in the Paris Agreement. This, however, is not the case for the United States where political leaders are still debating and questioning what 97 percent of climate scientists agree Read more…
Climate Change Means a Looming Refugee Crisis
by Casey Fischl
There are currently 68.5 million displaced individuals worldwide according to The UN Refugee Agency. Of the many refugees in need of new homes due to violence and persecution in their home countries, only 102,800 have been resettled.
Second annual City Managers’ Summit focuses on employee satisfaction, climate change, leadership
by Matthew Kredell The USC Price School of Public Policy partnered with the California Contract Cities Association (CCCA) to host the second annual City Managers’ Summit, which fostered important discussions around key policy issues such as climate change, economic development, leadership and the role of women in city management. Professor Read more…
Georgia’s energy consumption costs are among the highest in America, study finds
The Atlanta Journal-Constitutioncited comments by Lisa Schweitzerof the USC Price School on how ease of access affects transportation and energy costs across the country. According to University of Southern California professor Lisa Schweitzer, “transport and access make a fairly large difference in many states for gasoline costs.” Full article here
Governance in the Age of Climate Change
by Jeremy Loudenback The onset of climate change is expected to have a powerful impact on California, from effects on growing seasons in agricultural areas to more frequent forest fires. But one crucial area has been overlooked until recently: governance. As California’s abundant coastline deals with rising sea levels and other Read more…
The Role of California State Agencies in Facilitating Local Adaptation to Sea Level Rise
Bedrosian Center Research Presentations Hilda Blanco The Bedrosian Center funds several grants for USC Price faculty research on governance issues. Preference for the awards is given to research focused on collaborative governance, relationships between governance and planning, and government accountability issues. As a condition of the grant, each principal investigator Read more…
Mazmanian to provide testimony to LHC
Prof. Dan Mazmanian will provide testimony on the need for new laws and governance structures for California for adapting to climate change to California’s “Little Hoover” Commission on State Government and Economy on August 22, 2013. The agenda for the hearing is available here. Mazmanian’s written testimony can be found here. Read more…
What can we do about climate change?
USC Earthweek April 22, 2013 5:30pm to 7:30pm At 5:30pm, stop by TCC 227 for a panel discussion hosted by Political Student Assembly, USC Bedrosian Center for Governance, and CALPIRG (and free food!) with LA Deputy Mayor of Environment, Romel Pascual, about climate change and what we can do to Read more…
Climate Change in the 2012 Presidential Election
On Thursday, November 1st, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that he was endorsing President Obama in this election. He said he had decided that President Obama was the best candidate to address climate change.“Our climate is changing,” he wrote. “And while the increase in extreme weather we have experienced in Read more…
Six Degrees of Dick Cheney and the Last (Environmental) Action Hero
by David Gastwirth This week’s Road to the White House once again explored a critically important policy area that has received scant attention in the presidential campaign – climate change. After Dr. Juliana Wang of USC Dornsife briefly discussed the science of global warming and Dr. Dan Mazmanian provided an Read more…
One of the Most Important Non-Issues of the Campaign – Climate Change
One of the Most Important Non-Issues of the Campaign – Climate Change October 17, 2012 11:30am to 1:00pm Featuring: Dan Mazmanian, Professor at USC Price, and Director of New Initiatives at the USC Center for Sustainable Cities Juliana Wang, Assistant Professor at USC Dornsife Charles Epting, USC College Republicans Alexander Read more…
Governing Climate Change Adaptation
Dan Mazmanian gave a keynote address entitled “A Robust Strategy for Governing Climate Change Adaptation” at the Governance of Adaptation symposium in Amsterdam on March 22-23, 2012. His talk outlined a governing framework that would enable policy, planning, and major development adaptation choices to be made in the face of Read more…
Cal-Adapt: Urban Adaptation to Climate Change
Kevin Koy, UC Berkeley Kevin Koy is Executive Director, Geospatial Innovation Facility, UC Berkeley – College of Natural Resources. The Cal-Adapt (http://cal-adapt.org) web application has been developed to showcase the wealth of innovative climate change research being produced by the scientific community in California. Through a combination of locally relevant Read more…
Is California’s climate change policy the right path forward?
Throughout US history, the paths to reform have been paved with obstacles. California is seen as the leader in climate change strategies, but is California’s policy the right path forward?