Gordon Bauer

Bo Li

Bo is a doc­tor­al stu­dent in Elec­tri­cal Engi­neer­ing  at Chongqing Uni­ver­si­ty.  His work is focused on the inte­gra­tion of renew­able ener­gy and of elec­tric vehi­cle fleets into the Chi­nese pow­er grid.

Ziming Ma

Sustainable Housing in French Polynesia

Road Map on Building a Green Economy for Sustainable Development in Carriacou and Petite Martinique, Grenada

A household carbon footprint calculator for islands: Case study of the United States Virgin Islands

Sustainability at the CLEW Nexus in Latin America

Emerg­ing economies will account for more than 90 per­cent of new ener­gy-gen­er­a­tion capac­i­ty by 2035, and Latin Amer­i­ca is no excep­tion to this trend. In the last 40 years, the region’s pri­ma­ry ener­gy demand has more than dou­bled. In a glob­al envi­ron­ment of increas­ing­ly volatile fuel prices, emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies, and cli­mate-change impacts, the con­tin­ued increase in demand presents chal­lenges and oppor­tu­ni­ties to Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. To man­age the next phase of devel­op­ment, the region’s gov­ern­ments will need to devel­op new ener­gy sources and pay more atten­tion to sustainability.

Kam­men and stu­dents (Juan Pablo Car­val­lo, Diego Ponce de Leon Bari­do and Rebekah Shirley) dis­cussed strate­gies to design and eval­u­ate pro­grams for man­ag­ing ener­gy and oth­er resources in the region both as a speak­er pan­el for the Cen­ter for Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies at UC Berke­ley and in a new pub­li­ca­tion on inte­grat­ed tools for build­ing low-car­bon economies in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

Our researchers also delve into the spe­cif­ic case study of Nicaragua along with Ful­bright Nexus Fel­lows 2012–2013. This group explored three case stud­ies at the nation­al, region­al and com­mu­ni­ty lev­els in Nicaragua: bread­fruit and food inse­cu­ri­ty; rain­wa­ter har­vest­ing on the Pacif­ic coast; and, bio-ener­gy pro­duc­tion from agri­cul­tur­al waste. This research shows the increas­ing need to see the cli­mate, land, ener­gy, and water (CLEW) sec­tors as inter­re­lat­ed, and to proac­tive­ly plan pol­i­cy with these inter­con­nec­tions in mind. Nicaragua’s oppor­tu­ni­ties for sus­tain­able devel­op­ment with­in a CLEW nexus frame­work are suf­fi­cient­ly large that the coun­try could well become an exam­ple of wise nat­ur­al resource use for Latin Amer­i­ca and the world.

Press release on our work with bio­gas digesters in Mexico: 

Fusion, March 24, 2014. These stu­dents have bold ideas on how to make renew­able ener­gy more acces­si­ble. 

Arti­cle, full video and pho­tos from our pan­el dis­cus­sion with CLAS:

Cen­ter for Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies. Feb­ru­ary 10, 2014. Sus­tain­able Ener­gy Sys­tems in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean. 

Read more about our involve­ment in the Ful­bright Region­al Net­work for Applied Research (NEXUS) Pro­gram 2012–2013.

Stakeholders in climate science: beyond lip service?

Stake­hold­ers in cli­mate sci­ence: beyond lip service?

As part of an ongo­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion, the team of

Nicole L. Klenk, Katie Mee­han, San­dra Lee Pinel, Fabi­an Mendez, Pablo Tor­res Lima, and Daniel M. Kam­men 

have pro­duced a paper that appeared in Sci­ence on Novem­ber 13, 2015.  You can down­load the:

Sum­ma­ry here for free (open access, by spe­cial permission),

Reprint here for free (open access, by spe­cial permission),

and the

Full text here for free (open access, by spe­cial permission).

For this we thank the AAAS and Sci­ence Magazine.

A key part of this project is to col­lect infor­ma­tion and to build a com­mu­ni­ty of prac­ti­tion­er groups that at share their expe­ri­ences and needs in access­ing, using , and find­ing sup­port in inte­grat­ing cli­mate infor­ma­tion in their operations.

We ask you to read the paper and review the table below of exam­ple groups, and to con­sid­er both shar­ing this with groups who you know who have lessons to share, and for those who can upload their infor­ma­tion and to down­load the infor­ma­tion on what these groups are doing.

We will update the table of groups reg­u­lar­ly as more orga­ni­za­tions share their data.  You can view and down­load that data below.

We also invite you feed­back on oth­er infor­ma­tion you would like to have col­lect­ed and shared in the process.

You can also down­load the spread­sheet here.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Nicole L. Klenk, Katie Mee­han, San­dra Lee Pinel, Fabi­an Mendez, Pablo Tor­res Lima, and Daniel M. Kammen

Nicole Klenk’s research exam­ines the role of (envi­ron­men­tal) sci­ence in soci­ety, the sci­ence-pol­i­cy inter­face, the pol­i­tics of knowl­edge co-pro­duc­tion, mobi­liza­tion and appli­ca­tion, and new modes of envi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance. Her research is most­ly sit­u­at­ed in the inter­pre­tive social sci­ences and her the­o­ret­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion is inter­dis­ci­pli­nary, draw­ing from sci­ence stud­ies, post-struc­tural­ist polit­i­cal the­o­ry, and prag­ma­tism.  Her areas of focus are forestry, bio­di­ver­si­ty con­ser­va­tion and cli­mate change adaptation.

Email: nicole.​klenk@​utoronto.​ca

Fabi­an Mendez, physi­cian and PhD in Epi­demi­ol­o­gy, is full time pro­fes­sor and head of the School of Pub­lic Health at the Uni­ver­si­dad del Valle in Cali, Colom­bia. His research inter­ests focus in the com­plex rela­tion­ships between envi­ron­ment and health with inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach­es. He has devel­oped research in dif­fer­ent top­ics from vec­tor borne dis­eases to health effects of envi­ron­men­tal pol­lu­tants, and right now devel­ops a project to eval­u­ate health vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty to cli­mate change with a water­shed approach in an area of Colombia.

Email: fmendez@​grupogesp.​org

Katie Mee­han is assis­tant pro­fes­sor of Geog­ra­phy and co-direc­tor of the Sci­ence, Envi­ron­ment, and Soci­ety Lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon. Her research and teach­ing inter­ests focus on water gov­er­nance, urban­iza­tion, the sci­ence-pol­i­cy inter­face, and cli­mate change adap­ta­tion. Recent work, sup­port­ed by a Ful­bright NEXUS grant, exam­ines the spa­tial gov­er­nance chal­lenges asso­ci­at­ed with insti­tu­tion­al­iz­ing local knowl­edge and non-net­worked water sup­ply tech­nolo­gies in Mex­i­co City

Email: meehan@​uoregon.​edu

San­dra Lee Pinel is a cer­ti­fied com­mu­ni­ty and region­al plan­ner (AICP) and SFAA mem­ber since 1988. PhD in Urban and Region­al Plan­ning with minors in Anthro­pol­o­gy and Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies. Research on co-man­age­ment and col­lab­o­ra­tive plan­ning with local and indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties and gov­ern­ment agen­cies. Assis­tant pro­fes­sor of sus­tain­able com­mu­ni­ty and region­al plan­ning at the Depart­ment of Con­ser­va­tion Social Sci­ences, U Ida­ho. Area focus includes Pueblo tribes in the South­west, Philip­pines, Peru, and north­ern Unit­ed States pro­tect­ed areas and com­mu­ni­ty interface.

Email: sleepinel@​gmail.​com

Pablo Tor­res Lima Agron­o­mist spe­cial­ist in the areas of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, social anthro­pol­o­gy, region­al devel­op­ment, envi­ron­men­tal design, agroe­col­o­gy, farm­ing sys­tems and social organization.

Email: ptorres@​correo.​xoc.​uam.​mx

This project is sup­port­ed by the Ful­bright NEXUS Region­al Fel­lows Pro­gram, for which Daniel Kam­men is a Co-Lead Schol­ar, and all of the oth­er authors are 2014 — 2016 Fellows.

Bolliger, Ian

Ian is a Nation­al Defense Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Grad­u­ate Fel­low in the Ener­gy and Resources Group and a mem­ber of the inau­gur­al “Envi­ron­ment and Soci­ety: Data Sci­ence for the 21^st Cen­tu­ry” Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion Research Trainee­ship (NRT) cohort. His research inter­ests lie at the inter­sec­tion of ener­gy sys­tems, cli­mate change adap­ta­tion, and glob­al health. He is a mem­ber of the Next Gen­er­a­tion Ecosys­tem Exper­i­ments Arc­tic team, inves­ti­gat­ing bio­geo­chem­i­cal fac­tors gov­ern­ing ener­gy flux­es in arc­tic tun­dra envi­ron­ments from the plant scale to the mod­el grid-cell scale. He is also inter­est­ed in devel­op­ing bet­ter tools for char­ac­ter­iz­ing sea­son­al snow­pack vari­a­tion, in order to improve fore­casts of stream­flow, water avail­abil­i­ty, and hydropow­er pro­duc­tion. Ian serves as project man­ag­er for Tiny House in My Back­yard, a stu­dent project to design and build mobile, afford­able, and sus­tain­able net-zero ener­gy hous­ing on the Berke­ley Glob­al Cam­pus. Pri­or to arriv­ing at UC Berke­ley, he received his BA from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty in Applied Math­e­mat­ics and spent three years mod­el­ing trends in glob­al injury rates at the Insti­tute for Health Met­rics and Eval­u­a­tion. Out­side of acad­e­mia, Ian is a mem­ber of the Tahoe Back­coun­try Ski Patrol, and he writes about moun­tain adven­tures and envi­ron­men­tal issues on his blog at TheIn​er​tia​.com.

Avila, Nkiruka

Nkiru­ka Avi­la is a grad­u­ate stu­dent in the Ener­gy and Resources Group at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley. She grad­u­at­ed with Sum­ma cum Laude hon­ors in Petro­le­um Engi­neer­ing from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Okla­homa. She has worked in var­i­ous sec­tors of the ener­gy indus­try, from engi­neer­ing design and pro­duc­tion to end-use dis­tri­b­u­tion and mar­ket­ing. Her cur­rent research inter­ests include renew­able ener­gy inte­gra­tion, sus­tain­able ener­gy devel­op­ment and rur­al electrification.