Project Scope

The National Academies are organizing a public workshop to examine issues relating to sustainability and human-environment interactions in the Houston metropolitan region to be held January 18-19, 2012. Likely topics to be addressed include energy and air quality management, hazard mitigation, and land use considerations. The committee will develop an agenda in consultation with regional stakeholders (academia, city/county governments), so that the presentations and panels reflect place-based knowledge and approaches to sustainability. The workshop will feature invited presentations and group discussion and will be patterned after similar workshops held in 2009 on research and development on urban systems and in 2010 on sustainability in the Atlanta metropolitan region.

Meetings & Events

Pathways to Urban Sustainability: A Focus on the Houston Metropolitan Region
Shell Center for Sustainability
Rice University
BioScience Research Collaborative Auditorium
6500 Main St.
Houston, TX 77005
January 18-19, 2012

Agenda and Presentations
 

Reports

Report forthcoming 

PLANNING COMMITTEE Members

• Jim Lester 
  Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Houston Advanced Research Center
• Mary Ellen Hynes
  Director of Research, Infrastructure and Geophysical Division, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• John Nielsen-Gammon
  Professor and Texas State Climatologist, Texas A&M University
• Glen T. Daigger
  Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, CH2M HILL
• Bruce Wilcoxon
  Director of Climate Change, ConocoPhilips
• Jeff Taebel
  Director of Community and Environmental Planning, Houston-Galveston Area Council
• Winifred J. Hamilton
  Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
• Walter G. Peacock
  Professor and Director, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Texas A&M University
• Marilu Hastings
  Environment Program Director, The George and Cynthia Mitchell Foundation

Sponsors

This project is sponsored by The Houston Endowment and The Brown Foundation.