We are devastated by the catastrophic wildfires that have destroyed so many people’s homes and precious landscapes within our community. Our hearts are heavy and go out to those impacted. We are committed to being a resource in the midst of uncertainty.
Through our Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative (CWRI), we are marshaling an all-of-campus effort to bring together UCLA’s deep expertise and knowledge relevant to this crisis.
Over the coming weeks and month, CWRI will create a clearing house of UCLA’s relevant work—reports, tools, partnerships, opinion pieces, statements, and research—to help counter disinformation and provide our community members with answers to the immediate questions and concerns we are facing, as well as, to support rebuilding in a way that makes our communities stronger, more resilient, and better prepared for a changing future.
For those impacted or if you would like to help those immediately impacted, please visit: recovery.lacounty.gov or newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/how-you-can-help
For inquiries about SLAGC and CWRI's work, please email jislas@conet.ucla.edu.
Highlights
UCLA Experts: Climate Change A Factor in Unprecedented LA Fires
CWRI Convenes Working Group on Vegetation + Fire
CWRI Brings Together Experts on Health + Fire
Sustainability means balanced growth that creates opportunity for all.
The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge (SLAGC) brings together world-class researchers and community stakeholders to facilitate interdisciplinary, solutions-oriented, and societally relevant sustainability research.
To achieve truly sustainable outcomes, solutions to pressing societal challenges must take into account environment, equity, and economy. Solutions that skew too far in pursuit of any one of these three foundational areas necessarily do so at the expense of the others, risking mid- and long-term failure.
SLAGC:
- supports the development of knowledge and research agendas responsive to societal needs, and that enable environmental policy and regulatory change.
- catalyzes interdisciplinary, cross-sector collaboration, discovery, and knowledge brokering between UCLA’s research centers and external stakeholders, while coordinating external support for these collaborations.
- trains the next generation of critical thinkers and solutions-oriented researchers.
Read more about what we do and our approach.
Core Initiatives & Programs
Climate & Wildfire Research Initiative (CWRI)
Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP)
Partnering with LADWP for a Sustainable Los Angeles
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- Email us with your research ideas, questions, and expertise.
