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Urban Vulnerability to Climate Change: A System Dynamics Analysis

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Theme: 
Societies and Their Natural Environments

Description:

Team Members: 
  • Sharon Harlan (PI, Arizona State University)
  • Darrel Jenerette (PI, University of California, Riverside)
  • Susan Grossman-Clarke (Co-PI)
  • Tim Lant (Co-PI)
  • Chris Martin (Co-PI)
  • William Stefanov (Co-PI)
  • Karrin Alstad (Postdoctoral Fellow)
  • Wade Bannister (Sr. Personnel)
  • Bob Bolin (Sr. Personnel)
  • Gerardo Chowell-Puente (Sr. Personnel)
  • Monica Elser (Sr. Personnel)
  • William Johnson (Sr. Personnel)
  • Joellen Russell (Consultant)
  • Anthony Brazel (Sr. Advisor)
  • Patricia Gober (Sr. Advisor)
  • Nancy Grimm (Sr. Advisor)
  • Juan Declet-Barreto (Research Assistant)
  • Darren Ruddell (Research Assistant)
Funding Sources: 
  • National Science Foundation (~$1.3 mill)
Partnerships: 

  • University of California, Riverside (collaborating research institution)

  • Image and Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center

  • University of Arizona

  • Arizona Department of Environmental Quality

The South Phoenix Collaborative: Leveraging Culture & History to Support Healthy, Resilient and Just Communities

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Theme: 
Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health


 South Phoenix Collaborative Field Team

The South Phoenix Collaborative Field Team

Team Members: 

Complete list of members

Partnerships: 

Change is Hard: The Challenges of Path Dependence

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Theme: 
Societies and Their Natural Environments

 

 Farmer in wagon in field

Publications: 

Wetmore, J. (2008). The challenge of path dependence. IEEE Symposium on Technology & Society, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, June 27, 2008.

Hegmon, M., York, A. & Boone, C. (forthcoming). Change is hard: The challenges of path dependence in addressing global change session organized for the International Human Dimensions Workshop on Social Challenges of Global Change, 7th Open Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April 2009.

Hegmon, M., Bolin, B., Wetmore, J. & York, A. (forthcoming). The challenges of path dependence: Theory and prospects. International Human Dimensions Workshop on Social Challenges of Global Change, 7th Open Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April 2009.

Bolin, B. & Boone, C. (forthcoming). Path dependence and the making of a desert city.  International Human Dimensions Workshop on Social Challenges of Global Change, 7th Open Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April 2009.

York, A. (forthcoming). Changes and intransigence in urban landscape institutions. International Human Dimensions Workshop on Social Challenges of Global Change, 7th Open Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April 2009.

Anderies, J. M. (forthcoming). Modeling path dependence: Demonstrating the importance of initial conditions.  International Human Dimensions Workshop on Social Challenges of Global Change, 7th Open Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April 2009.

Nelson, B. & Hegmon, M. (forthcoming). Path dependence in the long term: Insights from the archaeological record. International Human Dimensions Workshop on Social Challenges of Global Change, 7th Open Meeting, Bonn, Germany, April 2009.

Team Members: 

Core Faculty:

  • Michelle Hegmon (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), Co-PI
  • Bob Bolin (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), Co-PI
  • Jameson Wetmore (School of Human Evolution and Social Change/Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes), Co-PI
  • Abigail M. York (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), Co-PI

Participating Faculty:

Social Networks, Wellbeing and Responses to Shifts in Immigration Policy and Practice

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Theme: 
Societies and Their Natural Environments

Description:

Team Members: 

This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of team members can be found here. Core faculty include:

• Jennifer Glick, Associate Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics

• Alexandra Brewis, Professor of Medical Anthropology, School of Human Evolution and Social Change

• Amber Wutich, Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity

• Gerardo Chowell-Puente, Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change

• Christopher Boone, Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, School of Sustainability  

• Seline Szkupinski-Quiroga, Assistant Professor, Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies

Funding Sources: 

• National Science Foundation ($750,000)

Partnerships: 

This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of partners can be found here.

Leveraging Culture and History to Support Healthy, Resilient & Just Communities

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Theme: 
Biological, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health

Description: Ranch market in South Phoenix

Team Members: 

This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of team members can be found here. Core faculty include:

  • Amber Wutich, Assistant Professor
  • Alexandra Brewis, Professor of Medical Anthropology
  • Christopher Boone, Associate Professor

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    Funding Sources: 

    •   SHESC's Late Lessons from Early History program, supported by the President's Initiative Fund

     

    Partnerships: 

    This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of partners can be found here.

    Prelude to Plant Domestication in Eastern North America

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    Theme: 
    Societies and Their Natural Environments

    With National Science Foundation support, Dr.

    Team Members: 

     

    • Jane Buikstra, Professor of Bioarchaeology
    • Tim Messner, Postdoctoral Fellow (Archaeobotany)
    • Gregory Vogel, Director of Research, Center for American Archeology
    • David Asch, Archaeobotanist
    • April Sievert, Lithics Analyst (microwear)
    • Steve Bozarth, Phytoliths
    Funding Sources: 
    • NSF: ~$300,000
    Partnerships: 

     

    • Center for American Archeology
    • Illinois State Museum

    The Phoenix Innovation Study

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    Theme: 
    Urban Societies

    The Phoenix Innovation Study, initiated by the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, is a core project of the Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University Initiative. The research team, led by professor Sander van der Leeuw, is exploring the entrepreneurial landscape of the Phoenix Metro Area. To spur increased innovation in the Phoenix metropolitan area, we must first understand our community's assets.

    Team Members: 
    • Sander van der Leeuw, Principal Investigator, School of Human Evolution and Social Change 
    • Nancy Jurik, School of Justice and Social Inquiry
    • Jose Lobo, School of Human Evolution and Social Change & W.P. Carey School of Business
    • Gabriella Sanchez, Research Assistant 
    • Lisa Meierotto, Project Coordinator
    Funding Sources: 

    The Kauffman Foundation

    Partnerships: 
  • School of Social Work
  • SkySong 
  • W.P. Carey School of Business

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    Phoenix Area Environmental Justice Project Series

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    Theme: 
    Societies and Their Natural Environments

    Description:

    Publications: 

    Grineski, S., Bolin, B. & Boone, C. (2007). Criteria air pollution and marginalized populations: Environmental inequity in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Social Science Quarterly, 88(2), 535-554.

    Bolin, B. (2006) Race, class, and disaster vulnerability. In Rodriguez, Quarantelli and Dynes (Eds.), Handbook of disaster research (pp. 113-130). New York: Springer.

    Grineski, S., Bolin, B. & Agadjanian, V.  (2006). Tuberculosis and urban growth: Class, race and disease in early Phoenix, Arizona."  Health and Place, (12), 603-629

    Bolin, R., Grineski, S., & Collins, T. (2005). The geography of despair: Environmental racism and the making of South Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Human Ecology Review, 12(2), 156-168.

    Team Members: 
  • Bob Bolin, Professor, ASU
  • Chris Boone, Professor, ASU
  • Sara Grineski, Assistant Professor, University of Texas, El Paso
  • Ed Hackett, Professor, ASU

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    Funding Sources: 
  • LTER

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    Geographic Vulnerability Analysis of Water Resources in the Phoenix Area

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    Theme: 
    Societies and Their Natural Environments

    Description:

    Team Members: 
  • Bob Bolin, Professor, ASU
  • Mohan Seetharam, Post-doctoral Fellow, DCDC, ASU
  • Patricia Gober, Professor, ASU
  • Brian Pompeii, Graduate Research Assistant, ASU

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    Funding Sources: 
  • DCDC

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