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Dr. Pincetl, Director of the Center on People and the Environment, has a PhD from UCLA’s former Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is a Researcher at the Institute of the Environment at UCLA and a Social Science Researcher at the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station. She has published extensively on issues of environmental policies and regulation. The content of her research is land use, land use change, with a focus on urban environments and the transformation of their natural environments. The theoretical core of her research is environmental politics, policies and governance and specifically, the ways that rules and rulemaking impact the participants in decision-making and the content of decisions. Rules can be formal or informal, hard or soft, but they form the boundaries of what is perceived of as possible. Dr. Pincetl has studied land use, infrastructure, and environmental preservation or services. |
Dr. Pincetl's News and Updates:
Jan 7, 2009 - Dr. Pincetl invited to be the Distinguished Speaker for The Geography Graduate Group at UC Davis, where she will be speaking on The Political History of Development in Southern California. Read more about this story by Clicking Here.
Dec 19, 2008 - Stephanie Pincetl, Director of the Urban Center for People and the Environment, and researcher at the Pacific Southwest Research Station of the Forest Service was asked by the Energy Commission's Research Development and Demonstration (RD&D) Division to develop a White Paper to guide a new course for integrated research for urban sustainability. Read more about this story by Clicking Here.
Dec 15, 2008 - Index: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge held its first annual competition this year on the issue of the global water crisis. A design team from the California Institute of the Arts entered the challenge and Dr. Pincetl served as one of the advisors. Click Here for slides from this finalist team's presentation.
The California American Planning Association held their annual conference in Hollywood on September 22, and Dr. Pincetl was there to deliver a presentation on growth in California. Click Here for the slides from this presentation.
Dr. Pincetl has launched her new blog! - July 21, 2008
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Dr. Pincetl invited to conference in Oman |
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Dr. Pincetl Honored by American Planning Association - May 9th, 2007
Dr. Pincetl was honored by the Inland Empire Section of the American Planning Association for her on-going work in the areas of sustainability and land management. Click Here to read about the event.
Publications:
Selected Works
Water Quality Improvement Policies, Lessons Learned from the Implementation of Proposition O, Los Angeles, California, with Mi-Hyun Park and Michael Stenstrom, Environmental Management.-- forthcoming
Water Quality Improvement by Implementation of Proposition O in the Los Angeles River Watershed, California, with Mi-Hyun Park and Michael K. Stenstrom, Water Science and Technology, 58:12. 2008
Environnement: Pollutijon de l’air: le port accusé, Revue Urbanisme, 361 Juillet Aout, 2008 pp. 52-53
Proposition O, Evaluation of the First Round of Funding: Process of Funds Allocation and Project Selection Criteria, with Mi-Hyun Park, UCLA Civil, Environmental Engineering. 2006.
The Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Communities Conservation Plan. Compliance with the Federal Endangered Species Ace and Land Use Planning Considerations, with Pete Alagona, PhD. UCLA History Department, for the California Policy Research Center. 2005. Winner of the best Academic contribution, Inland Empire Section, American Planning Association, 2007.
The Political Ecology of Urban Greening special issue of Local Environment, edited by Stephanie Pincetl with guest editorial, 2007. 12 (2).
Moving from the Sanitary City of the Twentieth Century to the Sustainable City of the Twenty-First, What new tools are available? In The Future of Metropolitan Landscapes, Places, 2007.
Rescaling Regions in the State: The New Regionalism in California, with Andy Jonas, Political Geography 2006. 25: 482-505.
Conservation Planning in the West, Problems, Strategies and Entrenched , Obstacles, GeoForum. 2006. 37 (2): 246-255.
Linking Ecology and Economics for Ecosystem Management: A Services- Based Approach with Illustrations from LTER Sites, Co-authored with Costanza B. Faber S., Wilson, M., Grove JM., Warren P., Hopkinson C., Kahn J., Childers, D., Troy A., Gross K. 2006. Bioscience, 56 (2): 121-133.
Urban Open Spaces: Gateways to Urban Sustainability, with Elizabeth Gearin 2005. Urban Geography 26 (5): 365-384.
Books
Transforming California, a Political History of Land Use and Development argues that the transformation of nature in order to enhance economic development lies at the heart of much of the state’s recent history. In this book, Dr. Pincetl describes the evolution of the state’s institutions of government as they apply to land use and development, and it shows how land-use decisions affect people’s quality of life, their daily interactions with one another, and with their environment. Beginning with the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, and ending with the Governor Pete Wilson’s second term, Transforming California traces the history of land use and natural resources management in the state. Dr. Pincetl emphasizes the long term impacts of Progressive Era reforms on the shape and capacity of state and local government to govern. She offers an alternative vision for the renewal of the democratic process in California, and a better relationship with nature |
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Book Chapters
Urban Sustainability and Nature in the City: the Need for Interdisciplinarity, (La Durabilite Urbaine et la Nature en Ville; la Nécessité d’Interdisciplinarité), in What is the Sustainable City: From the Political to the Scientific (Qu’est-ce Que la Ville Durable: Du Politique au Scientifique, 2005. Nicole Mathieu, Yves Guermond (eds), Elsevier, 92-105.
Social Movements and he Urban Environment in the Los Angeles Region SENISA, State University of Parana, Curitiba Brazil, special colloquim publication, 2003, 76-87.
The Preservation of Nature at the Urban Fringe, in Up Against the Sprawl, Public Policy and the “ReMaking of Southern California. 2004. Jennifer Wolch, Manuel Pastor and Peter Drier, (eds), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Urban Nature and the Nature of Urbanism (with L. Pulido and J. Wolch) in From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory. 2002. Michael Dear (ed), Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
The Politics of Influence: Democracy and the Growth Machine in Orange County, in Twenty-One Years After: Critical Perspectives on the Growth Machine, 1999. Andrew Jonas and David Wilson (eds), Buffalo: State University of New York Press.