Recent Publications

Recent publications:

• Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California, by Faith Kearns and Max Moritz (The Conversation 2019)
• Climate change and California agriculture, by Pathak, T.B., M.L. Maskey, J.A. Dahlberg, K.M. Bali, D. Zaccaria, and F. Kearns (Progressive Crop Consultant 2019)
• Adapting to the changing climate is mission critical for California, by Faith Kearns (Bay Nature 2019)
• How fierce fall and winter winds help fuel California fires, by Faith Kearns and Max Moritz (The Conversation 2018)
• Supporting sustainable groundwater management, by Faith Kearns and Doug Parker (CalAg 2018)
• Climate change trends and impacts on California agriculture: A detailed review, by Tapan Pathak, Mahesh Maskey, Jeff Dhalberg, Faith Kearns, Khaled Bali, and Daniele Zaccaria (Agronomy 2018)
• California’s Massive Fires Reveal Our Illusion of Control Over Disasters, by Faith Kearns (Bay Nature 2017)
• California fire damage to homes is less ‘random’ than it seems, by Faith Kearns (The Conversation 2017)
• Building climate change resilience in California through UC Cooperative Extension, by Ted Grantham, Faith Kearns, Susie Kocher, Tapan Pathak, and Leslie Roche (CalAg 2017)
• Loss for words: Art, language and the challenges of living on a changing planet, by Faith Kearns (The Conversation 2016)
• Fighting Climate Change Will Take More Than Science, by Faith Kearns (published at The Conversation and New Republic 2016)
• A relational approach to climate change: Working with people and conflict, by Faith Kearns, chapter in Climate Change Across the Curriculum 2015
• What would it take to end California’s drought?, by Faith Kearns and Doug Parker (published at The Conversation and Newsweek 2015)
• Californian drought: Challenges for farmers and city dwellers, by Doug Parker and Faith Kearns (BBC 2015)
• California’s water paradox: why enough will never be enough, by Doug Parker and Faith Kearns (published at The Conversation, Newsweek, and California Journal of Politics and Policy 2015)
• The Art and Science of Waiting (for Rain), by Faith Kearns (Hippo Reads)
• 5 Key Facts about the California Drought—and 5 Ways We’re Responding to It, by Faith Kearns (Hippo Reads)
• Institute director Doug Parker is a member of the California Climate Change Consortium, which issued the report, Climate Change Consortium for Specialty Crops - Impacts and Strategies for Resilience (pdf)
• Advancing water resource management in agricultural, rural, and urbanizing watersheds: Why land-grant universities matter, by A.J. Gold, D. Parker, R.M. Waskom, J. Dobrowolski, M. O’Neill, et al (Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 2013)