Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez – (Co-Chair)
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico and
University of California, Riverside, USA
Riverside, CA 92521
Tel: +1 (951) 827-7935
Fax: +1 (951) 827-3856
Email: roberto.sanchez-rodriguez@ucr.edu
Dr. Sánchez-Rodríguez is currently a professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Studies at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, a research institution in Mexico. He is also an Emeritus professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of California, Riverside and co-chair of the UGEC Scientific Steering Committee. He also worked at the North American Commission for Environmental Studies, created under NAFTA. His research seeks to build a better understanding of the bidirectional interactions of urban areas and climate change. He studies social and urban vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, multilevel governance in urban areas in the context of climate change, and the science-policy/practice interface in urban areas with a particular emphasis on the role of spatial planning building urban responses to climate change. His research interests include also the search of new paths of growth and development in the context of global change in the 21st century.
Selected Publications
Seto, K.C., Sánchez-Rodríguez, R., & Fragkias, M. (2010). The New Geography of Contemporary Urbanization and the Environment. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 35, pp. 167-194. doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-100809-125336
Major, D.C., Dettinger, M., Hanson, R.T., & Sanchez-Rodriguez, R. (2011). Climate change, water, and wastewater in cities. In C. Rosenzweig, W.D. Solecki, S.A. Hammer, & S. Mehrotra (Eds.). Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (ARC3). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved from http://uccrn.org/resources/publications/arc3/
Biermann, F., Abott, K., Andersen, S., Backstrand, K, Berstein, S., Betsill, M., Bulkeley, H., Cashore, B., Clapp, J., Folke, C., Gupta, A., Gupta, J., Haas, P., Jordan, A., Kanie, N., Klunankova,-Oravska, T., Lebel, L., Liverman, D., Meaddowcroft, J., Mitchell, R., Newell, P., Oberthur, S., Olsson, L., Pattberg, P., Sánchez- Rodríguez, R., Chroeder, H., Underdal, A., Camargo Veira, S., Vogel, C., Young, O., Brok, A., Zondervan, R. (2012). Navigating the anthrophocene: improving Earth system governance. Science, 335, 1306-1307.
Biermann, F., Abott, K., Andersen, S., Backstrand, K, Berstein, S., Betsill, M., Bulkeley, H., Cashore, B., Clapp, J., Folke, C., Gupta, A., Gupta, J., Haas, P., Jordan, A., Kanie, N., Klunankova,-Oravska, T., Lebel, L., Liverman, D., Meaddowcroft, J., Mitchell, R., Newell, P., Oberthur, S., Olsson, L., Pattberg, P., Sánchez- Rodríguez, R., Chroeder, H., Underdal, A., Camargo Veira, S., Vogel, C., Young, O., Brok, A., Zondervan, R. (2012).Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 1-10.
Jabbour, J., Keita-Ouane, F., Hunsberger, C., Sanchez-Rodrıguez, R., Gilruth, P., Patel, N., Singh, A., Levy, M., Schwarzer, S. (2012). Internationally agreed environmental goals: a critical review of progress. Environmental Development, 3, 5-24.
Simon, D., Fragkias, M., Leichenko, R., Sanchez-Rodriguez, R., Seto, K.C., & Solecki, W. (2013). The Green Economy and the Prosperity of Cities. UN-HABITAT Background paper for the State of the World Cities Report, Nairobi: UN-HABITAT.
Sanchez-Rodriguez, R. (2016). Adaptation to climate change in rapidly growing cities. In K.C. Seto, W.D. Solecki, & C.A. Griffith (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (pp. 350 – 363). London: Routledge.