North America
Built Urban Environments, Obesity and Environmental Justice
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Urban Vulnerability to Climate Change: A System Dynamics Analysis
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- 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)
- National Science Foundation (~$1.3 mill)
- 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
The South Phoenix Collaborative Field Team 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.
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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
• National Science Foundation ($750,000) This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of partners can be found here. Description:
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:
• SHESC's Late Lessons from Early History program, supported by the President's Initiative Fund
This project is linked to the research programs of the South Phoenix Collaborative. A full list of partners can be found here. With National Science Foundation support, Dr.
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. The Kauffman Foundation
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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.
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Change is Hard: The Challenges of Path Dependence
Social Networks, Wellbeing and Responses to Shifts in Immigration Policy and Practice
Leveraging Culture and History to Support Healthy, Resilient & Just Communities

Prelude to Plant Domestication in Eastern North America
The Phoenix Innovation Study
Phoenix Area Environmental Justice Project Series
Geographic Vulnerability Analysis of Water Resources in the Phoenix Area


