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Dr. Amy Luers
Climate Impacts Scientist
Global Environmental Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, United States

2397 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 203
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States of America

Tel: +1 510-843-1872 x305
Email:
http://cesp.stanford.edu/people/3145/

Amy Luers is a scientist in the Global Environmental Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Her current work focuses on assessing the potential impacts of climate change in California and identifying particularly vulnerable sectors. Luers received her PhD in Environmental Science from Stanford University. Her dissertation is entitled From Theory to Practice of Vulnerability Assessments, Applied to the Yaqui Valley Region of Sonora, Mexico. Before joining UCS, Luers was a research fellow at Stanford's Center for Environmental Science and Policy, where her research focused on how recent privatization and liberalization policies have altered the way local communities in Yaqui Valley use coastal land and fishery resources. From 2000-2002 she was a pre-doctoral fellow with the Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability Program. Prior to starting her doctoral studies, Luers worked for 10 years on rural water development and watershed management projects in California and Latin America. She holds bachelor's degrees in Philosophy and Environmental Resource Engineering and master's degrees in Environmental Systems Engineering and International Policy Studies.

This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
   Integrated Studies of Sustainability: Land-Water Systems of the Yaqui Valley, Mexico
   Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
   Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development (KSSD)

This Network Member is classified within these Core Themes:
Environment
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management
Connecting the ecological, economic, and social
Integrative methods for place-based analysis
Driving forces relevant to a sustainability transition
Complex adaptive systems
Impacts and response

This Network Member is directly associated with the following:

PUBLICATIONS
Assessing the Vulnerability of Social-Environmental Systems (2006)
Hallie Eakin and Amy Lynd Luers

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