Presentations and Publications
Presentations
“New York City as Sustainable City,” Columbia’s Earth Institute, April 7, 2011
Presenter: William Solecki, Ph. D.
“Globalization, Climate Change, the Environment and Meat Consumption in New York and Tokyo”
Presenter: Peter Marcotullio, Ph. D.
Presented at Association of American Geographers Las Vegas, Nevada, 22-27 March 2009
“Greening Manhattan’s Waterfront: A New “Perimeter Park” for the 21st Century”
Presenter: John Waldman
Presented at Greening Manhattan’s Waterfront: A new Perimeter Park for the 21st Century February 25th 2009.
“Sustainability Curriculum at CUNY: Inventory and Prospect”
Presenters: Lesley Patrick and William Solecki, Ph. D.
Presented at the Nature, Ecology, and Science Colloquium, March 7, 2008
CISC Publications
Teaching Sustainability at CUNY
Authors: William Solecki, Lesley Patrick, Lee Hachadoorian, Michael Brady
CISC and the Ad-Hoc Committee on Sustainability Curriculum Produced and Submitted this report to the Curriculum Committee of the CUNY Sustainability Initiative Task Force.
Fossil Fuel Energy Use for Meat in New York City
Author: Michael Minn
This paper details the estimated amount of fossil fuel energy used in the production, processing, distribution, and preparation of meat, poultry and seafood consumed in New York City. Estimates are based on publicly available data and existing food production energy models. At only around 2.2% of the city’s share of total fossil fuel use, energy use for meat does not constitute as serious an issue as other environmental and resource considerations associated with current and projected levels of livestock production.
Affiliated Publications
Climate Change Adaptation in New York City: Building a Risk Management Response (Now on sale at Wiley)
Authors: Cynthia Rosenzweig, William Solecki, Reginald Blake, Malcolm Bowman, Andrew Castaldi, Craig Faris, Vivien Gornitz, Klaus Jacob, Alice LeBlanc, Robin Leichenko, Megan Linkin, Edna Sussman, Gary Yohe, Rae Zimmerman
Convened by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the NPCC advises the Mayor on issues related to climate change and adaptation. Made up of climate change and impacts scientists, legal, and insurance and risk management experts, the NPCC is modeled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Among its ongoing activities, the NPCC is working to develop climate change projections for New York City; create a set of workbooks to assist the City’s Climate Change Adaptation Task Force; and draft a technical report on the localized effects of climate change on New York City—similar to the IPCC reports on global climate change. The NPCC is chaired by Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Earth Institute’s Center for Climate Systems Research, and Dr. William Solecki of CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter College. The NPCC is funded through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Research Opportunities in the Natural and Social Sciences at the Jamaica Bay Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area
Author: John Waldman
Before joining CISC, John Waldman created an overview of the different research opportunities which are available in Jamaica Bay. The paper gives an overview of the ecological history of the bay and current environmental and social issues which could be researched.
Books
The Hudson River Estuary
Edited by: Jeffrey S. Levinton and John Waldman.
The Hudson River Estuary is a comprehensive look at the physical, chemical, biological and environmental management issues that are important to our understanding of the Hudson River. Chapters cover the entire range of fields necessary to understanding the workings of the Hudson River estuary; the physics, bedrock geological setting and sedimentological processes of the estuary; ecosystem-level processes and biological interactions; and environmental issues such as fisheries, toxic substances, and the effect of nutrient input from densely populated areas. This book places special emphasis on important issues specific to the Hudson, such as the effect of power plants and high concentrations of PCBs. The chapters are written by specialists at a level that is accessible to students, teachers and the interested layperson. The Hudson River Estuary is a unique scientific biography of a major estuary, with relevance to the study of any similar natural system in the world.
Articles
The Humane Megacity: Transforming New York’s Waterfront
Rutherford H. Platt, of CISC, From July/August, 2009 issue of Environment by permission of Heldref Publications, Inc.
With Temperatures Rising, Here Comes ‘Global Weirding’, John Waldman, of CISC, for Yale Environment 360
