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GCSC Seminar: “Examining the Impacts of Inequality on Environmental Views & Outcomes in the U.S.”

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Lazarus Adua, Department of Sociology "The Downside of the Gap! Examining the Impacts of Inequality on Environmental Views and Outcomes in the United States" Register to attend: https://utah.zoom.us/j/97433558176?pwd=QjN4NDNPU1FyUzFUejk3OEFGUmtKQT09 This study examines the influence of income- and wealth-based inequalities on environmental views and outcomes. Disproportionalities in income and wealth have been getting worse in the United […]

GCSC Seminar: Using the Wasatch Environmental Observatory to engage in Water resource research, Education, and Outreach

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Register to attend: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtd-morDIpHdd4od6ZOABY5By731gldwjB Jennifer Follstad Shah, Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Environmental & Sustainability Studies WEO water studies since 2014 have focused on assessing water supply and water quality using stable isotope techniques, long-term discharge records, and hydrochemistry. These studies have been informed by needs of community partners and sometimes completed as part of coursework highlighting […]

GCSC Seminar: Interpreting the Clean Water Act: Environmental Law & Science

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“Interpreting the Clean Water Act: the uncertain relationship between environmental law and science” Register in advance for this meeting: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvc-2tqzgjHd061odCsPm9xAOSrR02aW6d Robert Adler, Distinguished Professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Adler's expertise is in restoration and protection of water systems and management of water resources. As the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) approaches its 50th anniversary in […]

GCSC Seminar: “Rethinking healthy cities in a post-pandemic world”

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Andy Hong, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah Register in advance to attend: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf-6gpzIuGdGNKLKzqR1ces8xHqrBOvgM The COVID-19 pandemic coupled with climate change presents significant challenges to cities around the world. Yet, much of the contemporary urban planning paradigm still rely on conventional approaches to urban development focused on automobility and maintaining the status […]

GCSC Seminar: Catalina de Onís “La lucha sigue: Translating Energy Justice for Multiple Audiences”

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Catalina de Onís, University of Oregon. Read more here: https://sustainability.utah.edu/gcsc-seminar-energy-justice-in-puerto-rico/ Online via Zoom. Register to attend: https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEscu2grzIuHNaTzu0ndPwLmZxmst1el2aJ This presentation highlights urgent environmental, climate, and energy controversies and injustices in Puerto Rico, while also documenting how many grassroots energy actors resist and build alternatives to the suffocating status quo. Focusing on translation broadly construed, this presentation reflects […]