Future Cities episode 36: Learning to Live With Water in New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana faces ecological challenges, but also social challenges in learning to adapt to climate change and to adopt new water management techniques. The existing stormwater infrastructure isn’t cutting
Decision Center for a Desert City is featured in OECD report
The examines how transdisciplinary research can be used to address complex societal challenges, and is based in large part on analysis of 28 case studies to identify the key obstacles to effectively implementing transdisciplinary research and make recommendations for best practices.
Criss-crossing viruses give rise to peculiar hybrid variants
For millions of years, viruses have participated in a far-flung, import-export business, exchanging fragments of themselves with both viral and non-viral agents and acquiring new features. What these tiny entities
Academic Personnel must complete ASU Vita profile by Dec. 31
The ASU Vita is an electronic curriculum vitae builder that supports the reporting of teaching research and service activities. ASU Vita maximizes the quality of personnel data, and streamlines the collection and reporting process.
Graduate and postdoctoral fellowships with The Nature Conservancy
During the past few years, we at the ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes have had the pleasure of collaborating with The Nature Conservancy’s NatureNet Science Fellows Program and various ASU units to fund two postdoctoral
Stories of our shared climate future: San Juan
The StoryMap platform includes syntheses for coastal, riverine, and urban flood scenarios as well as the three transformative visions developed during the UREx San Juan 2080 scenario workshops.
Silova co-authors UNESCO backgrounder on futures of education
Sustainability scholar Iveta Silova, director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education in ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, has co-authored a background report for the UNESCO’s Futures of Education Initiative.
Knowledge to outcomes in biodiversity conservation, talk
On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, 6:00-7:00 p.m. PST, ASU Center for Biodiversity Outcomes Founding Director Leah Gerber delivered a virtual talk titled “Knowledge to outcomes in global biodiversity conservation.” This
eLiberare: Safer futures from human trafficking
Ioana Bauer, president of eLiberare, Romania 2020 WE Empower Finalist, Europe, North America and other Human trafficking is one of the world’s most horrific crimes, yet it still takes place
Friday: 2nd annual SEEK national workshop
This year's workshop will explore four themes: practical energy stewardship and the ethics of care, the science and ethics of direct climate intervention, pathways to solar: what you need to know, and cultivating community resilience during uncertain times.
Maynard publishes new book: Future Rising
In his newest book, a series of sixty short reflections, sustainability scientist Andrew Maynard embarks on a 14-billion-year historical journey to show readers how we started and what we are steering toward.
World's Best Connectors convened CEOs to help sustain Arizona's economy
World's Best Connectors LLC, a virtual community of executives, invited over 20 CEOs to speak to business leaders at a conference in Scottsdale presented by ASU and held at ASU's