Research Focal Area: Sustainable Communities

EcoDistrict Urban Resiliency Metrics

This research team developed standardized measures and collected baseline data to create a scientifically rigorous set of metrics for the EcoDistrict Framework, which was eventually tested in the City of Fort Collins to help the City realize its climate neutrality, resource reduction, and healthy community goals.

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Hydraulic Fracturing

This research team studied the potential groundwater and human health impacts of surface spills containing chemicals used for unconventional oil and gas exploration.

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Environmental Justice

This research team explored how and why Equity and Environmental Justice are important elements of the study of the environment, public health, and sustainability at CSU.

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Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Anthropocene

This team has grown the environmental justice community at CSU in their efforts to explore how and why equity and environmental justice are important elements of the study of the environment, public health, and sustainability. In 2016-17 they put on a symposium on “Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Anthropocene” highlighting transdisciplinary and international research, and develop an Environmental Justice Workshop Training Series.

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