| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 69.28 |
| Liaison | Austin Eriksson |
| Submission Date | Feb. 29, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
California State University, Northridge
AC-9: Academic Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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6.75 / 12.00 |
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Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
61
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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in research:
886
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Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
31
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The total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that conduct research:
62
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A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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Names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
The Web of Science indexing service was used to search for publications of the 886 tenured and tenure-track faculty. The abstracts of these publications were then searched for the same 144 keywords utilized in our identification of sustainability-related courses. The keyword list was developed by the Sustainability Advisory Committee at the University of North Carolina for this purpose, and presented at the AASHE 2014 conference. Sustainability-related research papers were identified as those with 3 or more keywords occurring in the abstract, and the authors of those papers are those counted here. The script developed in-house to perform this process is available at: https://github.com/lpmagnuson/STARS.
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A brief description of notable accomplishments during the previous three years by faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
Erica Wohldmann: Working to reducing food deserts and promoting healthy eating in the City of Los Angeles (invited presentations, book, journal articles)
Mechelle Best: Environmental management in hospitality & tourism; ecotourism and nature-based tourism; tourism impacts; and community participation in tourism. Conducting research on tourism education in secondary schools in the Caribbean, and slavery heritage used by the tourism sector in the Caribbean.
Peter Edmunds: Studies the ecology and long-term dynamics of coral reefs in order to identify temporal trends and provide a rich ecological context within which mechanistic research can be designed.
Mintesnot Woldeamanuel: Evaluation of public transit and its role in a sustainable city.
Chhandak Basu: Production of genetically engineered plant cells and their use as factories for production of biofuel and biodiesel.
Zeynep Toker: Inclusive and generative design process for sustainable urbanism
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The website URL where information about sustainability research is available:
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