Team Meeting: Linking Local Consumption to Global Impacts

"Linking Local Consumption to Global Impacts" Venture meeting

This is a closed meeting for a funded synthesis group of visiting scholars.

The goals of this project are to:

1. Create a collaborative network, involving researchers and stakeholders, for developing a common framework addressing global trends in consumption and production, and associated impacts upon environment and society;
2. Synthesize local to global datasets and perform scenario analyses on trade-offs and win-win strategies regarding social, economic, and environmental impacts of household consumption for about 70,000 census tracts in the U.S.;
3. Provide in-depth development scenarios and social and environmental implications using greater Los Angeles metropolitan area as a case study; and
4. Provide knowledge brokerage to urban stakeholders and the wider public interested in sustainability issues.

To learn more about this project, click here.