CRC White Papers

• Chris Benner and Bidita Tithi - Social Equity and Transit-Oriented Development:  Selecting Transit Priority Areas in the Sacramento Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Process.  Appendix I.  Index and Indicator Maps -- Appendix II.  Original Proposed Indicators -- Appendix III. TPA_Social Equity Analysis -- Appendix IV. Technical Methodology.

• Jonathan London and Ted Bradshaw- Towards a New Rural Pattern Language

• Robert Wiener and Darryl Rutherford- Developing a Regional Affordable Housing Strategy: A Look at California's Housing Challenges and Ingredients Needed for a Successful Regional Strategy

CRC Publications

• San Joaquin Valley Cumulative Environmental Vulnerability Assessment (Click here.)

• Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions and Art of Regional Change- Youth Voices for Change Comic Book (Click here.)

• CRC and CORE- Sacramento Coalition on Regional Equity Collaborative Assessment of Regional Development (SCORECARD) Baseline Regional Report

• Maggie La Rochelle, Jonathan London, and Julie Sze- Building Collaborative Communities: the Center for Regional Change and the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis

CRC RAC Member and Affiliate Publications

• Jesus Hernandez, graduate student, shares his research in a working paper, on the interrelation between race and market constraints in the current housing crisis (foreclosure crisis, credit crunch etc) using Sacramento as a case study. Click here to read his paper.

• Donald Terry, Vice President Community Development Officer for Wells Fargo Bank, discussed Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) compliance and the potential role of academic research in assisting banks in quantifying the impacts of investments in communities and determining which loans in which communities can yield the greatest impacts at the regional scale. Download the PowerPoint Presentation here.

• Beth Rose Middleton gave a presentation at the March CRC Staff Meeting: Opportunities for Justice in Conservation.  She discussed creating entrepreneurship using environmental statutes for cultural preservation, tribal resource conservation districts, and indigenizing natural resource policy and planning.  Learn about her work and her new book released in Spring 2011 about native land trusts, entitled Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation.

• Chris Benner, Samantha Sommer, and Luther Jackson- Next Generation Unionism and the Future of Newspapers: Networking, Entrepreneurship, and Hybrid Ownership

• Chris Benner- Regional Equity, Worker Choice, and Growth in 21st Century Regional Economics (page 30-35 of Academics on Employee Free Choice:Multidisciplinary Approaches to Labor Law Reform, edited by John Logan and released by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education)

• Susan Handy and Paul Zykofsky of the Local Government Commission (serving on a committee of health experts who wrote the report)- Local Governments Should Act to Reduce Childhood Obesity

• Chris Benner, Davis and Radhika Fox, and Miriam Axel-Lute- Inclusion in the Workforce: Positioning the Pittsburgh Region to Prosper and Compete

• jesikah maria ross and Art of Regional Change - Regional Engagement.  A one page spread in the UC Davis Office of Outreach and International Programs "Fully Engaged" newsletter.

• Nari Rhee- Analysis of Proposed Ballot Initiatives for City of Redding Retirement Benefit Reductions (see also the related press release, Proposed Retirement Initiatives Will Not Resolve City of Redding's Budget Crisis)

• jesikah maria ross- Bringing Community Media into the University: A Strategy for Developing Media Arts Programs

• Chris Benner- Economic and Workforce Development Opportunities in San Mateo, presented to San Mateo Board of Supervisors on November 18, 2008 (see the agenda, Dr. Benner's presentation, the board's recommendation and the meeting's video footage [presentation starts at minute 53:00])

General Documents

• California Planning & Development Report featuring a profile on the CRC (PDF)

• College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences IMPACT Report on the CRC (PDF)

• Summary Proceedings of the CRC Charting a Course on Regional Change Conference (DOC)

• Sustainability Conference Proceedings (Power Point Presentation)

• June 2007 Sustainability Conference Agenda (PDF)

Newsletters

• Assets for Community Development- Summer 2008