Video: Student Discusses the Importance of Urban Ecology With a Member of the U.S. Forest Service by Frederique Fyhr |May 6, 2021
While today’s modern cities may seem to be isolated from what we consider “nature,” they are not. Understanding ecological interactions and the application of these principles is essential to building sustainable urban communities, as issues such as biodiversity, nutrient cycling, and natural resource availability are complicated in the urban setting. M.S. in Sustainability Management students in Amy Kaparti’s Science of Urban Ecology course explore the complex ecology of human-dominated landscapes.
Jessica Vargas is a student in the M.S. in Sustainability Management program at Columbia University. In the video below, she interviews Michael Rizo, an urban and community program specialist at the U.S. Forest Service.
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If you want a case study on how to address the pitfalls,
pandejos and promise in California’s fight against the coronavirus, get on the 101 North after morning rush hour and head to Oxnard.
This working-class, super-majority Latino city remains the brown-skinned stepchild of a county where the split between wealthy suburbs and agricultural towns is straight outta the 1950s. So it’s little surprise the coronavirus has disproportionately ravaged Oxnard: The city represents about a quarter of Ventura County’s population but 40% of its coronavirus cases and nearly 37% of its COVID-19 deaths.
Oxnard is the type of place where the coronavirus stalks the poor and powerful alike. Carmen Ramirez, a former City Council member who now represents Oxnard as a county supervisor, had a brother die of COVID-19 earlier this month. Ventura County Public Health Director Rigoberto Vargas, who grew up in south Oxnard, told me his wife lost an aunt because too many relatives continued to party