The Economics Department at UNM is sponsoring a presentation today titled, "Toward a Sustainable Los Angeles: A Nature's Services Approach." The presentation, by Stephanie Pincetl, research associate professor in geography and coordinator of the Sustainable Cities Program at the University of Southern California, is at 2:30 p.m. in the Social Sciences building, Room 1002.
Urban sustainability is a long-term goal that requires systemic changes in the relationship to nature. This presentation is about research conducted by the USC Sustainable Cities Program to better understand the ways in which a green infrastructure might improve sustainability, potential obstacles, mechanisms and how residents might react.
Pincetl has worked on land use and environment issues in California and France with an interest in democratic accountability and governance. She is the author of the book, "Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development." Pincetl's work has largely focused on questions of land use and governance, including questions of the dynamics of growth and development, the relations between urban and rural land uses and environmental impacts and processes of democratic participation and decision-making.
Pincetl has received two Fulbright awards to work in France as well as other grants. She received her bachelor's in Language Ethics in 1974 and her master's in Cultural Anthropology in 1978, both from University of California at Davis, and her doctorate in architecture and urban planning from UCLA in 1985.
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