Designing and Planning for a Labor-Focused Just Transition
Guest speaker Damian White on the role of urban designers in a just transition.
Climate Change
Collaborating for Climate Change Adaptation Planning at the Watershed Scale
Lessons on planning and adaptation from the Resilient Mystic Collaborative.
What Ecological Restoration Can Teach Planners: Wilding Climate Adaptation through Multi-species Planning
Multi-species planning is an effort to develop methods for planning that accord with the needs of the landscapes in which climate adaptation and similar projects take place.
UEP Alum Nina Schlegel: We Need a Justice Framework for Urban Climate Action
Recent UEP alum Christina Schlegel, MA ’17, spent last summer as a fellow in Boston City Council President Michelle Wu’s office. According to Wu, Nina was… Read More »UEP Alum Nina Schlegel: We Need a Justice Framework for Urban Climate Action
Climate change cannot be separated from social justice, panel says
The following piece was submitted by Tufts undergraduate student Sika Gadzanku. At its core, Climate Justice is a social justice and human rights issue. Climate Justice is… Read More »Climate change cannot be separated from social justice, panel says
UEP Student Erin Coutts at Baltimore’s Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference
Preparing for Climate Change on the East Coast Over three hundred planning professionals, scientists, business owners, and non-profit representatives gathered in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor April… Read More »UEP Student Erin Coutts at Baltimore’s Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference
Sacred Rice: Environmental Change and Structural Uncertainty in West Africa
This week’s Tufts Environmental Studies Lunch & Learn was a presentation by Boston University anthropologist Joanna Davidson on her work in rice farming communities in… Read More »Sacred Rice: Environmental Change and Structural Uncertainty in West Africa
Susan Buckingham: Why Climate Change Is a Gendered Issue
Feminist geographer, consultant, and former Brunel University professor Susan Buckingham visited UEP’s weekly colloquium yesterday to present her work on the links between gender and environmental… Read More »Susan Buckingham: Why Climate Change Is a Gendered Issue
GDAE: Climate Economics
Tufts’ Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) hosted a panel of Tufts affiliated professors and researchers to discuss the global economics of climate change. The… Read More »GDAE: Climate Economics
UEP Colloquium: Climate Change and Community Vulnerability
Samuel Bell: Hazard Mitigation Through Planning UEP alum, former FEMA hazard mitigation specialist and current planner at GZA Geoenvironmental spoke at this weeks UEP Colloquium about… Read More »UEP Colloquium: Climate Change and Community Vulnerability