Sustainable Development
Fraker, Harrison
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:28pm.Name:
Harrison Fraker
Research Interests:
affordable manufactured housing, urban design, sustainable development and ecological design
Achievements:
Harrison Fraker is an award winning architect and Founding Partner of the Princeton Energy Group. Recently, he led an initiative to design three transit-oriented neighborhoods for Tianjin, China, a city of 11 million. The idea in this design is not just green buildings but whole systems, encouraging officials to integrate planning for power, water, waste and transportation for better environmental results. Fraker teaches design studio and architectural internship program and current research activity includes affordable manufactured housing, urban design, sustainable development and ecological design.
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Department Name:
Architecture, Professor
Horvath, Arpad
Submitted by cmjones on February 28, 2007 - 2:23pm.Name:
Arpad Horvath
Research Interests:
Environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, life-cycle assessment, environmentally-conscious construction and infrastructure management
Achievements:
Horvath’s research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment (LCA) of civil infrastructure systems, as well as industrial ecology and environmental management. His current research projects include assessing the environmental implications of telework, quantifying the environmental and economic benefits accrued by substituting wireless applications for traditional products, and developing new, hybrid models for life-cycle assessment. He has been named an AT&T Faculty Fellow in Industrial Ecology. The fellowship carries a $25,000 prize. Industrial ecology is a multidisciplinary field that studies industrial and economic systems and their linkage with natural systems. His latest (2006) paper is titled “Decision-Support Tool for Assessing the Environmental Effects of Constructing Commercial Buildings.” (with A Guggemos; in the Journal of Architectural Engineering.
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Department Name:
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Professor
Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:42pm.Name of Research Center:
Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Description:
The Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) conducts research into processes of urban and regional growth and decline, and effects of governing policies on the patterns and processes of development. Current research focuses on sustainable development and regulation of urban growth and land use, the social and economic impacts of changes in urban life with a focus on inner city inequality, evolving patterns of suburbanization and central city reconstruction,transportation alternatives, including high-speed rail and transit-based land development, information technology applications in urban development, disaster preparedness, and improvements in methods of analysis, evaluation, and planning.
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Center for Sustainable Resource Development
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:22pm.Name of Research Center:
Center for Sustainable Resource Development
Description:
The Center for Sustainable Resource Development is located in the College of Natural Resources and brings together UC Berkeley's leading environmental and social scientists with other experts and stakeholders from industry, government, and environmental organizations to address complex resource-use issues such as global climate change, sustainable agriculture, water reliability, and population, poverty and the environment.
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How Will New Orleans' Levees Be Fixed
Submitted by cmjones on February 22, 2007 - 12:39pm.Title:
How Will New Orleans' Levees Be Fixed
How Will New Orleans' Levees Be Fixed
Description:
A new report says New Orleans' levee system offers insufficient protection for the city. And the Army Corps of Engineers calls the levees outdated. Guests talk about how to fix the protections for New Orleans -- and who is to blame for their failure. Including guest Professor Robert Bea
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NPR
Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture
Submitted by cmjones on February 20, 2007 - 12:46pm.Name of Publication:
Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture
Name of Author:
Miquel Altieri
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LIVABLE CITIES? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability?
Submitted by cmjones on February 20, 2007 - 12:39pm.Name of Publication:
LIVABLE CITIES? Urban Struggles for Livelihood and Sustainability?
Name of Author:
Peter Evans
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Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam
Submitted by cmjones on February 20, 2007 - 12:36pm.Name of Publication:
Community-Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam
Name of Author:
Dara O'Rourke
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Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Land-Use Science and Society
Submitted by cmjones on February 20, 2007 - 12:27pm.Title:
Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Land-Use Science and Society
Description:
April 9-12, 2007 at the Sheraton Atlanta
The focus of this conference is the linking of ecological aspects and human dimensions of land-use science and practice along urban/rural interfaces, with interfaces construed broadly.
Interested Students can submit paper or poster presentations
Travel stipends available for participating students, apply at the website
Bears Breaking Boundaries Contest
Submitted by cmjones on February 20, 2007 - 12:22pm.Name of Competition:
Bears Breaking Boundaries Contest
Description:
The Big Ideas @ Berkeley initiative and the Berkeley student government (ASUC) are teaming up with a variety of research centers and institutes on the campus to organize a series of parallel white paper competitions that will encourage student teams to propose the next generation of research, education, and service activities on the UC Berkeley campus. Competitions include Green Cities and Solar Fuels.
