The Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences (ESS) is an interdisciplinary community of scholars -- composed of faculty, staff, and students -- dedicated to understanding the interactions between humans and the natural world. We serve local and global communities by addressing environmental issues through education, research, and leadership. Our bachelor-level degrees in Environmental Science and Environmental Studies challenge undergraduates to integrate knowledge and research in the natural and social sciences with ethics, service, and leadership to promote a sustainable world. The ESS Department offers a seminar series and opportunities for research, service, and study abroad.
Submissions from 2017
Why Are Regulations Changed? A Parcel Analysis of Upzoning in Los Angeles, C. J. Gabbe
Projected 21st-century changes in the Central American mid-summer drought using statistically downscaled climate projections, Edwin P. Maurer, Nicholas Roby, Iris T. Stewart-Frey, and Christopher M. Bacon
Late Miocene uplift of the Tian Shan and Altai and reorganization of Central Asia climate, Hari T. Mix
Climate response to the 8.2 ka event in coastal California, Jessica L. Oster, Warren D. Sharp, Aaron K. Covey, Jansen Gibson, Bruce Rogers, and Hari T. Mix
Submissions from 2016
Analyzing the economic benefits and costs of smart growth, Daniel G. Chatman, Lisa Rayle, C. J. Gabbe, Jonathan Plowman, Paul Sohn, and Rebecca Crane
Resituating Nature: New Horizons for a Pesky Noun, John S. Farnsworth
Where residential density is allowed - and isn't - in Los Angeles: A fresh look at zoning changes, C. J. Gabbe
Hidden costs and deadweight losses: Bundled parking andresidential rents in the metropolitan United States, C. J. Gabbe and Gregory Pierce
Employment proximity and outcomes for Moving toOpportunity families, Michael C. Lens and C. J. Gabbe
A hot and high Eocene Sierra Nevada, Hari T. Mix, Jeremy K. Caves, Bolat U. Bayshashov, Aizhan Zhamangara, Andrea J. Ritch, Daniel E. Ibarra, Derek J. Sjostrom, Matthew J. Winnick, and C. Page Chamberlain
Submissions from 2015
Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperative, Christopher M. Bacon
Change the Game, John S. Farnsworth
The Condor Question Revisited, John S. Farnsworth
A case where “renters rule”? The motivations for rental housing policy in one Southern California city, C. J. Gabbe
Looking through the lens of size: Land use regulations and micro-apartments inSan Francisco, C. J. Gabbe
Shade tree diversity, carbon sequestration, and epiphyte presence in coffee agroecosystems: A decade of smallholder management in San Ramón, Nicaragua, Katherine E. Goodall, Christopher M. Bacon, and V. Ernesto Mendez
Submissions from 2014
Explaining the ‘hungry farmer paradox’: Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua's corn and coffee markets., Christopher M. Bacon, W. A. Sundstrom, M. E. Flores Gómez, V. E. Méndez, R. Santos, B. Goldoftas, and I. Dougherty
Aridification of Central Asia and uplift of the Altai and Hangay mountains, Mongolia: stable isotope evidence, Jeremy K. Caves, Derek J. Sjostrom, Hari T. Mix, Matthew J. Winnick, and C. Page Chamberlain
The impact of neogene grassland expansion and aridification on the isotopic composition of continental precipitation, Charles P. Chamberlain, Matthew J. Winnick, Hari T. Mix, Samuel D. Chamberlain, and Katharine Maher
An Invitation for Engagement: Assigning and Assessing Field Notes to Promote Deeper Levels of Observation, John S. Farnsworth, Lyn Baldwin, and Michelle Bezanson
Shade coffee: update on a disappearing refuge for biodiversity., S. Jha, Christopher M. Bacon, S. M. Philpott, V. E. Méndez, R. A. Rice, and P. Läderach
Stable isotope records of hydrologic change and paleotemperature from smectite in Cenozoic western North America, Hari T. Mix and Charles P. Chamberlain
Submissions from 2013
Quality revolutions, solidarity networks, and sustainability innovations: following Fair Trade coffee from Nicaragua to California, Christopher M. Bacon
Introduction to empowered partnerships: community-based participatory action research for environmental justice, Christopher M. Bacon, Saneta deVuono-Powell, Mary Louise Frampton, Tony LoPresti, and Camille Pannu
Food sovereignty: an alternative paradigm for poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation in Latin America, M Jahi Chappell; Hannah Wittman; Christopher M. Bacon; Bruce G. Ferguson; Luis García Barrios; Raúl García Barrios; Daniel Jaffee; Jefferson Lima; V. Ernesto Méndez,; Helda Morales; Lorena Soto-Pinto; John Vandermeer; and Ivette Perfecto
Early Cenozoic evolution of topography, climate, and stable isotopes in precipitation in the North American Cordillera, Ran Feng, Christopher J. Poulsen, Martin Werner, C. Page Chamberlain, Hari T. Mix, and Andreas Mulch
Agroecology as a transdisciplinary, participatory and action- oriented approach. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, V. E. Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon, and R. Cohen
Grassland expansion as an instrument of hydrologic change in Neogene western North America, Hari T. Mix, Matthew J. Winnick, Andreas Mulch, and Charles P. Chamberlain
Submissions from 2012
The social dimensions of sustainability and change in diversified farming systems, Christopher M. Bacon, Christy Getz, Sibella Kraus, Maywa Montenegro, and Kaelin Holland
Food security and smallholder coffee production: current issues and future directions, Martha Caswell; V. Ernesto Méndez,; and Christopher M. Bacon
The Cenozoic Climatic and Topographic Evolution of the Western North American Cordillera, C. Page Chamberlain, Hari T. Mix, Andreas Mulch, Michael T. Hren, Malinda L. Kent-Corson, Steven J. Davis, Travis Horton, and Stephan A. Graham
The journal’s the thing: teaching natural history and nature writing in Baja California Sur, John S. Farnsworth and Christopher Beaty
Gender, health, and Fairtrade: insights from a research-action programme in Nicaragua, L. Hanson, V. Terstappen, Christopher M. Bacon, J. Leung, A. Ganem-Cuenca, S R.D. Flores, and M. A.M. Rojas
Opening access to scenario planning tools, Jim Holway, C. J. Gabbe, Frank Hebbert, Jason Lally, Robert Matthews, and Ray Quay
A Social-Ecological Analysis of Diversified FarmingSystems: Benefits, Costs, Obstacles, and Enabling Policy Frameworks, Claire Kremen, Alastair Iles, and Christopher M. Bacon
Diversified farming systems: an agroecological, systems-based alternative to modern industrial agriculture, Claire Kremen, Alastair Iles, and Christopher M. Bacon
Submissions from 2011
Disaster Risk and Sustainable Development, Christopher M. Bacon
Fair Trade, Christopher M. Bacon
“The creation of an integrated sustainability curriculum and student praxis projects.”, Christopher M. Bacon, D. Mulvaney, T. B. Ball, E. M. DuPuis, S. R. Gliessman, R. D. Lipschutz, and A. Shakouri
Engaging the public and communicating successfully in regional planning, John Fregonese and C. J. Gabbe
A Review of Ecosystem Services, Farmer Livelihoods, and Value Chains in Shade Coffee Agroecosystems, Shalene Jha, Christopher M. Bacon, Stacy M. Philpott, Robert A. Rice, V. Ernesto Méndez, and Peter Läderach
Livelihood and environmental trade-offs of climate mitigation in smallholder coffee agroforestry systems, V. Ernesto Méndez, S. Castro-Tanzi, K. Goodall, K. S. Morris, Christopher M. Bacon, Peter Läderach, W. B. Morris, and M. U. Georgeoglou-Laxalde
Cenozoic migration of topography in the North American Cordillera, Hari T. Mix, Andreas Mulch, Malinda L. Kent-Corson, and Charles P. Chamberlain
Not Fair Enough: Historic and Institutional Barriers to Fair Trade Coffee in El Salvador, B. Tellman, L. C. Gray, and Christopher M. Bacon
Submissions from 2010
A Spot of Coffee in Crisis: Nicaraguan Smallholder Cooperatives, Fair Trade Networks and Gendered Empowerment Processes, Christopher M. Bacon
Who decides what is fair in Fair Trade: Agri-Environmental Governance of Standards, Access and Price, Christopher M. Bacon
What Does the Desert Say?: A Rhetorical Analysis of "Desert Solitaire", John S. Farnsworth
Writing the Island, John S. Farnsworth
Effects of Fair Trade and organic certifications on small-scale coffee farmer households in Central America and Mexico, V. E. Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon, M. Olson, K. S. Petchers, and D. Herrador
Agrobiodiversity conservation and shade coffee smallholder livelihoods in Central America, V. E. Méndez, Christopher M. Bacon, M. Olson, K. S. Stillings, and A. K. Shattuck
Submissions from 2009
Organic Coffee, Christopher M. Bacon
Review of Daviron, B, and Ponte, S. The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development, Christopher M. Bacon
Review of Holt-Giménez, E. Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America's Farmer-to-Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture, Christopher M. Bacon
Synorogenic evolution of large-scale drainage patterns: Isotope paleohydrology of sequential Laramide basins, Steven J. Davis, Hari T. Mix, Bettina A. Wiegand, Alan R. Carroll, and C. Page Chamberlain
Envision Tomorrow: Using prototype buildings and scenariomodeling to measure carbon footprint, John Fregonese and C. J. Gabbe
Submissions from 2008
Are Sustainable Coffee Certifications Enough to Secure Farmer Livelihoods? The Millenium Development Goals and Nicaragua's Fair Trade Cooperatives, Christopher M. Bacon
Definition of Fair Trade, Christopher M. Bacon
Persistent Paradoxes in Efforts to Cultivate Sustainable Coffee, Christopher M. Bacon, V. Ernesto Méndez, and Jonathan A. Fox
From Differentiated Coffee Markets Towards Alternative Trade and KnowledgeNetworks, Roberta Jaffe and Christopher M. Bacon
Submissions from 2007
Review of Jaffee, D. Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival, Christopher M. Bacon
The Buzz about Sustainability, John S. Farnsworth
Agroecología: promoviendo una transición hacia la sostenibilidad, Stephen R. Gliessman, Francisco J. Rosado-May, Carlos Guadarrama-Zugasti, Julie Jedlicka, Anais Cohn, Victor Ernesto Méndez, Roseann Cohen, Laura Trujillo, Christopher M. Bacon, and Roberta Jaffe
Submissions from 2006
Portland can’t wait, C. J. Gabbe
GIS as a strategic tool for cities: New developments in Helsinki and Portland, Jonna Kangasoja, C. J. Gabbe, Ari Jaakola, Anu Soukki, and Hannu Kurki
Submissions from 2005
Confronting the Coffee Crisis: Can Fair Trade, Organic and Specialty Coffee Reduce Small-Scale Farmer Vulnerability in Northern Nicaragua?, Christopher M. Bacon
Reckless laws endanger land use, C. J. Gabbe
