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Ashwani Vasishth
Department
of Urban Studies and Planning
California
State University, Northridge
vasishth@csun.edu
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URBS 250: Planning the Multi-ethnic City |
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URBS 350: Cities and the Third
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URBS 400: Planning for the
Built and Natural Environment |
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PPD 461: Environmental Issues |
ARCH 533a: Urban Ecology |
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PhD Dissertation:
Getting
Humans Back Into Nature:
A Scale-Hierarchic Ecosystem Approach to Integrative Ecological Planning
[August, 2006]
Presentation at the 2008 Joint ACSP-ASEOP Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 8, 2008.
Using the Levels-of-Organization Concept to Establish Context and
Consequence In Planning Depictions
Presentation at the 2007 Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, WI, October 20, 2005.
Presentation at the 2006 Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning, Fort Worth, TX, November 8-12, 2006.
Using
Process-function Ecology to Urbanize Habitat Conservation Planning
Presentation to the Annual
California Chapter of the American Planning Association Conference, “Planning
for Tomorrow’s Bright Future,” Palm Springs CA, October 17-20, 2004
Bringing Process-Function Ecology To Ecosystem
Management: Getting Beyond Organismic Biophilia and Human Land Use
(February, 2005)
Returning To Ecology: An Ecosystem
Approach To Understanding The City
pp343-366 in Michael Dear (ed.), 2002, From
Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
Publications.
Planning, Change and Darwin’s Evolution:
Is Competition A Law of Nature?
Commentary:
Redistributing The Benefits of Globalization To Relieve Local Environmental
Costs
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While the benefits of cheap
consumer goods from global manufacturing and trade are widespread, the
environmental costs are dumped on a few communities. Some tiny fraction of the
benefits need to be redistributed to effectively mitigate the human and
ecological health costs of the globalized goods movement system.
Commentary:
Green Infrastructure Lets Nature Help Carry the Load of Our Cities
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An urban ecology approach
using heat island mitigations, urban forestry, and impervious surface
management would reduce our burden on the land, and enhance effective carrying
capacity, while significantly reducing our need to build costly additional
infrastructure to accommodate growth.
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Communities located
proximate to the nodes of the global goods movement complex, such as the
neighborhoods surrounding the San Pedro Port Complex in Long Beach, California,
usually end up bearing the brunt of the environmental and traffic congestion
impacts of a growth in the transnational production-consumption complex, while
consumers distributed across the US capture almost all of the benefits. A scheme to internalize the local costs
into the national system in the setting up of a global mitigation management
scheme is proposed.
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