Climate Change

UEP Alum Nina Schlegel: We Need a Justice Framework for Urban Climate Action

by Liza Burkin
February 23, 2018February 26, 2018

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 »

Climate change cannot be separated from social justice, panel says

by Tufts UEP
March 4, 2017July 19, 2017

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 »

UEP Student Erin Coutts at Baltimore’s Eastern Regional Climate Preparedness Conference

by Tufts UEP
May 17, 2016July 18, 2017

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 »

Sacred Rice: Environmental Change and Structural Uncertainty in West Africa

by Tufts UEP
May 1, 2016July 18, 2017

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 »

Susan Buckingham: Why Climate Change Is a Gendered Issue

by Tufts UEP
April 7, 2016July 18, 2017

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 »

GDAE: Climate Economics

by Tufts UEP
November 15, 2015

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 »

UEP Colloquium: Climate Change and Community Vulnerability

by Tufts UEP
November 6, 2015

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 »

Eric Hove: Implementing MetroFuture with the Sustainable Communities Initiative

by Tufts UEP
October 16, 2015

This week’s installment of the Tufts Environmental Studies Department Lunch & Learn Program brought in Eric Hove, assistant director of regional plan implementation at the Metropolitan… Read More »

Carolyn Kirk: Report from the Front Line

by Tufts UEP
October 9, 2015

This week, The Tufts Environmental Studies Department Lunch & Learn Program hosted Carolyn Kirk from the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development (HED) for the… Read More »

UEP Colloquium Panel Discussion

by Tufts UEP
October 27, 2014

Beyond Public Policy-Private Sector Responses to Climate Change UEP students, faculty and community members convened Wednesday to hear from a panel of local representatives from private sector… Read More »