Works
June 29, 2018 | Report
A paper based on ideas participants discussed at the conference “Planning for America’s Water Infrastructure Needs,” addressing the five challenges that all water managers face.
June 22, 2018 | Video
In a departure from previous gatherings, the 2018 Eccles Family Rural West Conference took the form of an academic workshop focused on collaborative governance.
June 12, 2018 | Report
Is oil economy of Bakersfield set to follow the downward trajectory of conventional resource economies, or is renewable energy ready to fill the void?
May 24, 2018 | Article
Carson Smith
How the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples presents a path for Native American communities to have greater control over their sovereignty.
May 23, 2018 | Video
Vladimir Choloupka
How can rural western communities work together towards environmental sustainability and better health outcomes? Catch up with this overview of a conference bringing together academics, practitioners, and policymakers, held in Yakima, Washington on March
May 17, 2018 | Audio
A look at visual art exploring the border and borderlands between the United States and Mexico, as a prelude to the ArtsWest conference, “Art and Culture on the US-Mexico Border: 2,000 Miles of Imagination that Unite and Divide Us.” Includes an interview
May 16, 2018 | Report
An annotated bibliography of over 40 sources detailing art and artists that are emerging around the US-Mexico border, in connection with the ArtsWest event, Art and Culture on the US-Mexico Border: 2,000 Miles of Imagination that Unite and Divide Us, on M
May 4, 2018 | Audio
A decades-long fight for the control of water has divided this quaint ocean county into two sides—one in support of private ownership of water, the other for public.
April 30, 2018 | Video
Aaron Kehoe and Kurt Hickman
Students who joined the Sophomore College course Water and Power in the Pacific Northwest: The Columbia River traveled to the Columbia River valley to understand the interplay between water, energy and human populations.
April 13, 2018 | Article
While extant works have documented public receptivity towards wind turbines extensively in developed democracies, we examine these claims in China, who leads the world’s wind energy market and faces rising environmental NIMBYism
April 9, 2018 | Paper
Jose Bolorinos, Newsha Ajami, Robert B. Jackson
A “policy-informed” life cycle assessment of a cross-border electricity supply chain that links the impact of each unit process to its governing policy framework. An assessment method is developed and applied to the California–Mexico energy exchange.
March 19, 2018 | Video
This public symposium celebrated the rise of notable western women artists during the last century and the prospects for achieving gender parity in the western art scene today.
February 27, 2018 | Video
The Bill Lane Center invited members of the Stanford community and others to join in addressing how we can best marshal the resources of Stanford University to contribute to the improvement of wellness and health care delivery in the Rural West.
February 12, 2018 | Article
Both parties agree that the country has serious infrastructure needs—but even with a new proposal on the table, we may end up with next to nothing, writes Bruce Cain.
January 10, 2018 | Report
The lives and careers of 34 prominent and remarkable woman visual artists, specifically those who hail from, call home, were educated, or spent their professional careers producing art in the American West.
December 20, 2017 | Video
Why did Silicon Valley take off in the postwar era? Who was responsible for its explosive development? And where is the Valley headed? A conversation about Leslie Berlin's latest book, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age.
December 12, 2017 | Video
Professor Marci Kwon’s lecture explores the remarkable body of photographs produced by May’s Photo Studio, one of the most prominent Chinese-run photography studios in San Francisco’s Chinatown. From its opening in 1923 until the mid-1960s, the wife-and-h
November 15, 2017 | Video
Proceedings of the Knight-Risser Prize Symposium at Stanford, including a panel discussion on investigative science journalism and the outlook for vulnerable coastal communities.
November 7, 2017 | Article
John Upton, Western Enterprise Journalism Fellow
As climate change fuels large wildfires, the pollution they're releasing is making Americans sick and undermining decades of progress in cleaning the air.
November 3, 2017 | Article
Mitch Tobin
While most Californians are in favor of using recycled water for nonpotable purposes, research has found that only 11 percent would drink it. A Stanford study examines the reasons why and the policy implications.
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