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The following is a collection of readings/publications authored by the Global Sustainability Summer School faculty.

This is a work in progress and will be added to weekly.

For more readings, please explore the wiki content of previous summer schools in 2006 and 2010.

[ Last Updated for SFI GSSS March 2016]

PUBLICATIONS

Luís M. A. Bettencourt

GSSS Director - Professor of Complex Systems at SFI

• The Origins of Scaling in Cities 2013
• The Kind of Problem a City Is 2013
• The scaling of human interactions with city size
• Urban Scaling in Europe 2016
• Professional Diversity and the Productivity of Cities 2014
• The Use of Big Data in Cities 2014
• Urban Scaling and Its Deviations 2010

Christa Brelsford

Water and Socioeconomics

• Industrial Ecology: The View from Complex Systems (Bettencourt and Brelsford)
• Optimal Re-blocking as a Practical Tool for Neighborhood Development (Bettencourt and Brelsford)

Kathleen Cagney

Director, Population Research Center, NORC & University of Chicago

• Do Local Social Hierarchies Matter for Mental Health? A Study of Neighborhood Social Status and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults

• Companionship in the neighborhood context: Older adults’ living arrangements and perceptions of social cohesion

Jennifer Dunne

VP of Science at SFI - Research: organization, dynamics, and function of ecosystems

• PDFs at ResearchGate

Sean Green

Office of the Mayor - City of Seattle WA USA

• Example Experience

Christopher Kennedy

Professor and Chair - University of Victoria Civil Engineering

• Study of Urban Metabolism & Its Applications to Urban Planning and Design

• The Changing Metabolism of Cities

• Energy & Material Flows of Megacities

• Methodology for Inventorying GHG Emissions from Global Cities

Audrey de Nazelle

Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London

• Health Impacts of Active Transportation in Europe, Plos One, Vol:11
• Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches (PASTA): a study protocol for a multicentre project, Bmj Open, Vol:6, ISSN:2044-6055
• Private and public modes of bicycle commuting: a perspective on attitude and perception., Eur J Public Health

Peter Newman

Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University – Fremantle, Western Australia - Australia

• Citizen Utilities Doc

• Theory of urban fabrics . . .

• Urban Fabrics & Sustainability Tables

• Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation: Transport for the UN Environment Program

• Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change for Island Press

• American Society of Landscape Architects interview with Peter Newman

• Green Urbanism Down Under’ for Island Press

Edward Mazria

Founder/CEO, Architecture 2030

• It’s the Architecture, Stupid!

• Folger,T. 2005. Blueprint for Disaster, On Earth Magazine, Summer 2005, Copyright 2005 by the Natural Resources Defense Council

• Mazria Publication List

Dan O’Brien

Northeastern University – College of Social Sciences and Humanities

• Ecometrics in the Age of Big Data, Dan O’Brien, Robert J. Sampson and Christopher Winship - 2015

Matt Petersen

Chief Sustainability Officer - City of Los Angeles

• Mayor's Office of Sustainability - pLAn

Jessika Trancik

Assistant Professor in Energy Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SFI External Professor and SFI Science Steering Committee

• Prof. Trancik interviewed by LA Times in article on Aliso Canyon natural gas leak - 1/24/2016

• Report: Technology improvement and emissions reductions as mutually reinforcing efforts Observations from the global development of solar and wind energy

• Trancik Lab Publications