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Inside the Earth Institute RESEARCH CENTERS and PROGRAMS Inside the Earth Institute RESEARCH CENTERS AND PROGRAMS he Earth Institute’s overarching goal is to help achieve sustainable development through scientific research, education and the practical application of knowledge to solving real-world challenges. The Institute is composed Tof 32 research centers and programs that house over 850 scientists, postdoctoral fellows and students. Research Centers Partnership Institutions • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) • The Black Rock Forest Consortium • Columbia Climate Center • Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) • Columbia Water Center • Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research Photo: Bob Handelman (CICAR) • Center for Rivers and Estuaries • NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) • Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) • Laboratory of Populations • Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) • The Earth Engineering Center (EEC) Earth Institute Programs • Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy (LCSE) • The ADVANCE Program • The Center for Global Health and Economic Development (CGHED) • The Earth Clinic • The Center for National Health Development in Ethiopia • The Cross-Cutting Initiative (CCI) (CNHDE) • Urban Design Lab (UDL) • The Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development • The Program on Science, Technology, and Global Development (CGSD) • The Global Roundtable on Climate Change (GROCC) • The Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR) • Tropical Agriculture and Rural Environment Program • The Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) • Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science • Center for International Earth Science Information Network and Policy (CIESIN) • Master of Arts Program in Climate and Society • International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) • Ph.D. in Sustainable Development • The Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR) Partnership Programs • Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (CPII) Photo: David Wentworth 22 The Earth Institute at Columbia University ANNUAL DONOR REPORT 2008 233 Photo: Eileen Barroso Photo: Eileen Barroso Photo: Office of University Publications F urther inside the many challenges of urbanization—drinking water, sanitation, THE earth INSTITUTE As our exciting work continues to move shelter, climate change preparedness and development—that forward in the area of sustainable devel- face low- and middle-income countries where urban growth will be the most pronounced. opment, we remain committed to solving the world’s most pressing needs. Sustainable Urban Communities — Jeffrey D. Sachs With support from the Ford Foundation, the Urban Design Lab teamed up with the Center for Sustainable Urban Development and the community-based organization WE ACT for Environmental Justice to examine the potential impacts of PlaNYC 2030’s Sustainable Development in Practice proposed congestion pricing plan, which would discourage As the main practice arm of the Earth Institute, the Earth Clinic traffic from entering southern Manhattan. The team studied ways to supports projects designed to help developing countries and mitigate the effects of an increased pollution and congestion load poor communities worldwide overcome economic and environ- on Harlem and other parts of the city, such as designing “green” mental problems. With generous support from donors such as bus depots and distributing them equitably across more than Joe and Barbara Ellis, the Earth Clinic offers science-based one neighborhood and developing a sustainable bus system that assistance to address urgent issues of economic development, would help reduce noise and air pollution. public health, energy systems, water management, agriculture and infrastructure. Ecology and Environmental Education, Columbia Grads, and Low-Income City Schools One of last year’s Earth Clinic projects included the Pilot Cook This year scientists and graduate students from the Earth Institute Stove Project, which aims to reduce human exposure to smoke are working in New York City public schools and a school in the from cooking fires in Ghana by providing clean-burning engineered Dominican Republic to bring hands-on science to the classroom cook stoves. This effort is designed to illuminate key uncertainties and get teachers and students into the field. Funded by a $3.1 regarding the adoption of new cooking technologies and show million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Learning the feasibility for larger-scale cook stove programs. through Ecology and Environmental Field Studies (LEEFS) program supports Columbia graduate students who work in middle and high Season Smart, a project that received funding from donors such school classes in low-income city schools where they present their as the Countess Moira Charitable Foundation, aims to protect research, assist with inquiry-based teaching, tutor students and Photo: Alan Orling children throughout Africa by teaching community health workers lead field trips. The program builds on existing relationships to incorporate an understanding of how climate and seasons n many ways, the Earth Institute is a lens to the world between NYC schools, the Center for Environmental Research affect health and the spread of disease in their public health and Conservation and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. and the many issues that challenge humanity. From programs. A pilot program in Mali is teaching community health Ihere in New York City, to countless international workers to advise families about how and when to focus on Issues of Global Health locations, we are conducting extensive and far-reaching prevention of infectious disease transmission, in particular acute Recognizing that improvements in public health and quality of life work on many issues of sustainable development and respiratory illness, diarrhea and malaria. cannot occur in isolation, the Earth Institute works through the our world’s environment. Center for Global Health and Economic Development on scaling Mapping Emerging Disease Hotspots up access to health care for the poor. Support from donors like By mapping global hotspots of emerging diseases, the Center Nine cross-cutting themes—water; climate and society; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) MacArthur Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the Glaser energy; urbanization; hazards and risk; global health; and an international team of researchers found that the frequency of Project Foundation, among many others, is critical to this work. poverty; ecosystems health and monitoring; and food, these ailments is increasing rapidly around the world. Some emerg- ecology and nutrition—run through the work of the ing diseases, known as zoonoses, pass from animals to humans and Among many ongoing health projects, several stand out. The hundreds of researchers, postdoctoral fellows and are becoming more common as human populations rise and wildlife Millennium Villages project has continued to provide basic health students at the Earth Institute. is crowded into increasingly smaller areas. Risks are highest interventions to rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. The Center in East Asia, but hotspots can be found on every continent for National Health Development in Ethiopia is helping create a new except Antarctica. community health workers program and is advising 11 governments Here are a few more highlights of the innovative projects on scaling up the control of malaria and other tropical diseases. The we have conducted over the last year. An Increasingly Urban World Access project in Rwanda is applying business and management With more than half the world’s population now living in urban skills to public health systems to increase access to life-saving drugs areas and the rapid shift to urban living expected to continue, the and critical health services. Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) is working on the ground in Nairobi, Kenya and New York City to address the challenges of urbanization. In July 2007, CSUD worked with the Left and right: In New York City and around the world, the Earth Institute is Rockefeller Foundation on a month-long conference to address addressing global issues and teaching the next generation of leaders. 242 The Earth Institute at Columbia University ANNUAL DONOR REPORT 2008 253 Photo: Bruce Gilbert INSIDE THE COLUMBIA WATER CENTER Upmanu Lall Director, Columbia Water Center Support for Water Initiatives “Water scarcity is emerging as a global problem, with ramifications The Earth Institute has received significant donor support for food security, energy produc- from individuals like Ceil and Michael Pulitzer and others like tion and needs, and biodiversity. JM Eagle and the PepsiCo Foundation for our work on global Strategies for managing risks due water issues. to changing climate, changing water use demographics and depleting PepsiCo Foundation groundwater resources are urgently A $6 million lead gift from the PepsiCo Foundation is support- Photo: Bruce Gilbert needed,” says Upmanu Lall. ing crucial work on water-related issues at the Earth Institute. The grant is an example of how private companies can be “The Columbia Water Center is working on theoretical and field part of efforts to find globally relevant solutions to the growing developments to meet this challenge. Improving water use efficiency challenge of water scarcity. The PepsiCo gift will fund water in agriculture
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