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The Center's publications include an annual report, quarterly newsletters, and a wide range of publications by faculty, staff, and students. Click on the research theme below to access relevant publications.

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Public Health and Metropolitan Growth

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Academic Publications

 

The Forgotten and the Future: Alleys as Elements of a Sustainable City.
J Wolch,  J Newell,  M Seymour, H Bradbury,  K Reynolds, J Mapes, T Longcore, K Brady. Available upon request, jnewell@usc.edu. 2009.

 

Region by Design: Public Policy and the Making of Southern California.
J Wolch, P Joassart-Marcelli, M Pastor, P Dreier.  In Sunbelt/Frostbelt: Public Policies and Market Forces in Metropolitan Development, J Rothenberg Pack, ed. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. 2005.

 

Twenty-five Years of Sprawl in the Seattle Region: Growth Management Responses and Implications for Conservation.
L Robinson, J Newell, J Marzluff. Landscape and Urban Planning, 71 (1): 51–72. 2005.

 

 

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How to Lead an Alley Revitalization Project.
E Ben-Horin, R Drayse, C Imhoff. Beverly Hills, CA: TreePeople. 2008.

 

Survey of soil contamination in Los Angeles alleys.
J S Devinny, T Longcore. Los Angeles, CA: University of Southern California Center for Sustainable Cities. 2008.

 

Uses and Perceptions of Alleys in Los Angeles: Results from a Series of Focus Groups.
M Seymour, H Bradbury, J Wolch, K D Reynolds. Los Angeles, CA: USC Center for Sustainable Cities. 2008.

 

Transforming Alleys into Green Infrastructure for Los Angeles.
A Cassidy, J Newell, J Wolch. Los Angeles, CA: USC Center for Sustainable Cities. 2008.

 

From Nuisance to Resource: Alleys as Essential Elements of Urban Sustainable Design.
J Wolch, J  Newell, M Seymour, H Bradbury, K Reynolds, J Mapes. 

 

After Sprawl: Action Plans for Metropolitan Los Angeles and Action Plans for Metropolitan Los Angeles: Supplemental Reports.
2003.

 

 

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Urban Habitat Conservation, Watershed Health, and Open Space Planning

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Academic Publications
 

Linking Ecological Footprints with Ecosystem Valuation in the Provisioning of Urban Freshwater.
G Jenerette, W Marussich, J Newell. Ecological Economics 59: 38–47. 2006.

 

Timber in the Russian Far East and Potential Transborder Conflict.
J Newell. In Russian Business Power: The Role of Russian Business in Foreign and Security Relations, ed. A Wenger, J Perovic, R Orttung. New York: Routledge. Pp. 239-259. 2006.

 

The Russian Far East: A Reference Guide for Conservation and Development.
J Newell. McKinleyville, CA: Daniel & Daniel, pp. 466. 2004.

 

Industrial Ecology and Business Sustainability

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Three Powers of Feedback for Sustainable Multi-Organizational Learning.
H Bradbury. In Creating Sustainable Work Systems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice. P Docherty, J Forslin, A B Shani, Editors. Routledge Press. 2009.

 

Collaborative Ecological Inquiry: Where Action Research Meets Sustainable Development.
H Bradbury.  For publication in International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education, M Brody, J Dillon, R B Stevenson, Arjen E J, eds. Wals. 2009.

 

Dynamics of dialogic capital: The Intersection of Agency and Social Learning. 
H Bradbury. Under review in Journal Applied Behavioral Science Special Issue on Organizational Discourse and Change. 2009.

 

Locating and reducing carbon in transhipment: Collaborative Learning through Static and System Dynamics Modeling.
J Newell, R Madachy, H Bradbury, B Haas. Avalilable upon request, jnewell@usc.edu.

 

Issues and choice points for improving the quality of action research.  
H Bradbury, P Reason. Chapter 13 in Community Based Participatory Research for Health: From Process to Outcomes, M Minkler, N Wallerstein, eds. Jossey Bass. 2008. 

 

The Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice.
Second Edition.
P Reason, H Bradbury, eds. London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing. 2008. 

 

Interorganizational collaboration.
H Bradbury. In Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability. 2008.

 

Relational Space: The Heart of Collaborations for Sustainability.
H Bradbury, B Lichtenstein, N Powley, J Carroll, P Senge, H Kaeufer. Under revision with Management Learning. 2008. 

 

The SAGE Handbook of Action Research.
P W Reason, H Bradbury. Sage Publications. 2007.

 

Collaborating for Systemic Change: Conceptual, Relational and Action Domains for Meeting the Sustainability Challenge.
P Senge, B Lichtenstein, K Kaeufer, H Bradbury, J Carroll, J Sloan. Management Review, 48 (2): 44-53. 2007.

 

A Sustainable Development Future?.
J Newell. In Kamchatka: A Journal and Guide to Russia’s Land of Ice and Fire, ed. Diana Gleadhill. Hong Kong: Odyssey Publications. Pp. 274-285. 2007.

 

Action Research.
H Bradbury. In Encyclopedia of Social Science. 2007.

 

Fostering sustainability across many companies: The importance of project memes. 
H Bradbury. In Transformative Cooperation, D Cooperrider, R Fry, S Piderit, eds. Stanford University Press. 2007.

 

Quality, Consequence and ‘Actionability’: What action researchers offer from the tradition of Pragmatism. 
H Bradbury.  In Handbook of Collaborative Management Research,  Mohrman et al, eds.  Sage Publications. 2007. 

 

Action research at work: Creating the future following the path from Lewin. 
H Bradbury, P Mirvis, E Nielsen, W Pasmore.  In The Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice,  Second Edition, P Reason, H Bradbury, eds.  London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing. 2007. 

 

Learning History: An Action Research Practice in Support of Actionable Learning.
G Roth, H Bradbury. In The Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice, Second Edition, P Reason, H Bradbury, eds. London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing. 2007. 

 

Social Learning For Sustainable Development: Embracing Technical And Cultural Change As Originally Inspired By The Natural Step. 
H Bradbury. In Social Learning Toward a more Sustainable World, A Wals, ed. 2007. 

 

What keeps it together?: Collaborative Tensility in Inter-organizational Learning. 
H Bradbury, L Robson, D Good. In Creating a Culture of Collaboration, S Schuman, ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/Wiley. 2006.

 

The Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice.
P Reason, H Bradbury, eds. London & Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing. 2006.

 

Toward Programmatic Action Research: Reanimation of the lifeworld for sustainable institutions.
H Bradbury, L Robson, S Waage, R Rominger, D Sibbet. Organization Development Practitioner.  2005.

 

Webs rather than Kevlar: Designing organizational systems.
H Bradbury et al.  In Managing as Designing, D Boland, F Collopy, eds.  Stanford University Press. 2004. 

 

Principles for change in complex human systems. 
H Bradbury, S Waage, R Rominger, D Sibbet. Reflections:  The Journal of the Society for Organizational Learning. 2004. 

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Professional Publications
 

Environmental Analysis of Coated PaperSupply Chains: United States and China.
Newell, J and B. Vos. 2008. Los Angeles, CA: USC Center for Sustainable Cities. Copies available upon request jnewell@college.usc.edu

 

Calculating the Carbon Emissions of a Shipping Container from China to U.S. Retailer
Newell, J., Madachy, R., Haas B., and H. Bradbury. 2008. Los Angeles, CA: USC Center for Sustainable Cities.
Please contact jnewell@college.usc.edu for copies.

  Legal Verification Systems for Wood Supply between Russia and China.
J Newell, G Kuru. WWF-International, Gland, Switzerland. 2008.
 

Keep it Legal: Best Practices for Keeping Illegally Harvested Timber Out of Your Supply Chain. A Country Guide for Russia.
J Newell, F Miller. WWF-International, Gland, Switzerland. 2007.

 

Managing Sustainability: Predictors of Executive Performance.
K Akrivou, H Bradbury. Available upon request, hilary.bradbury@usc.edu.

 

Achieving Sustainable Development in Southern California: Collaborative Learning through System Dynamics Modeling.
R Madachy, B Haas, H Bradbury, J Newell, M Rahimi, R Vos, J Wolch.  INCOSE Conference. 2008. 

 

Actionability and the question of what constitutes good action research.
H Bradbury. Organization Development and Change Newsletter  to the Academy of Management. 2006. 

 

 

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