Global Change & Sustainability Center

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlfumupzIuGtAC6qvbyjY6P5xJjs8h5OFS Abstract Anthropogenic climate change threatens to destabilize human societies and global ecological systems. Indeed, climate change is already forcing mass migrations and producing harmful effects on food security and social stability. As such, a critically important initiative in climate change research concerns how human […]

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEocOmvqzwrGdI7Ea7OLU5Ai_7Q_MxUxoez Abstract: The Colorado River is not stationary. Climate change’s hydrological impacts are one testament (read: aridification/megadrought). So, too, is the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision in Arizona v. Navajo Nation. Focused on Diné (Navajo) needs for and rights to water within the river […]

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMuc-GsrzgrHtaiig7yEu9qY1Uloqy9RaAm Abstract: Over a billion people globally depend on snowmelt runoff to meet water demands, predominantly from snow that accumulates annually in mid-latitude mountains. Decades of observations show that this natural resource is in decline, impacting growing populations downstream and stressing vast infrastructural networks designed […]

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtfuyrqDIrHNU1vd1QdezDCEOMh4m7p9m6 Abstract Globally and within the US, the weapons build up of World War II and the Cold War resulted in environmental injustices for Indigenous peoples that increased multigenerational risks to their health, environments, and cultures, creating a legacy of contamination and distrust against which the stresses […]

FASB 295 and online. To attend via Zoom, register at https://utah.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkd-Gopj0uHNQ1b6RfneIASNOzLIBrkFjP Abstract: This presentation will cover key arguments from Curley’s forthcoming book, “Carbon Sovereignty,” that focuses on coal and development on the Navajo Nation. The book chronicles the meaning of work and sovereignty for the tribe in the 21st century. Many accounts of extraction in […]