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Lourdes McKenna, (505) 277-5304 Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821

January 28, 2002

ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT TO HOST PRESENTATION BY RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

The Economics Department at the University of New Mexico will host a presentation titled, “Toward a Sustainable Los Angeles: A Nature’s Services Approach,” by Stephanie Pincetl, research associate professor in geography and coordinator of the Sustainable Cities Program at the University of Southern California, on Friday, Feb. 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Social Sciences building, room 1002. Pincetl will also meet with individuals from 9:30 to noon on Friday.

Urban sustainability is a long-term goal that requires systemic changes in the relationship to nature. This presentation is about research conducted by the USC Sustainable Cities Program to better understand the ways in which a green infrastructure might improve sustainability, potential obstacles, mechanisms and how residents might react.

Pincetl has worked on land use and environment questions in California an France with an interest in democratic accountability and governance. Pincetl is the author of the book, “Transforming California: A Political History of Land Use and Development.” Pincetl’s work has largely focused on questions of land use and governance, including questions of the dynamics of growth and development, the relations between urban and rural land uses and environmental impacts and processes of democratic participation and decision making.

Pincetl has also done work on these issues in France, contrasting a more centralized, technocratic state to the decentralized U.S. system. Pincetl has received two Fulbright awards to work in France as well as other grants. She received her B.A. in Language Ethics (1974) and her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology (1978), both from UC-Davis, and her Ph.D. in 1985, Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA.

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