Background Readings GSSS 2016

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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
• Envision 2050: The Future of Cities (contributor)
• The Kind of Problem a City Is
• The scaling of human interactions with city size

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