Lily B Pollans
Lily Baum Pollans is Assistant Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College in New York City. As an urban planner and scholar, her interests lie in sustainability, infrastructure, and environmental justice. As a practicing planner, she has worked in both municipal and institutional settings on public transportation, public space design, and brownfield redevelopment. In her most recent contract, she collaborated with Boston-area sustainability professionals on a study of the jobs-development potential of companies that use recycled materials as inputs in manufacturing processes.
In her current research, Pollans looks at the potential and limits of urban-scale action in the face of global climate change and structural inequality at all scales. A main thread of her work examines institutional and infrastructural transformation of solid waste systems in U.S. cities, and the evaluates the ability of municipalities to influence consumption. A second set of ongoing projects examines urban food systems and food waste, and explores the consequences—technological, social, economic and ecological—of ongoing change in urban food provisioning systems.
Supervisors: Eran Ben-Joseph, Judith Layzer, Lawrence Vale, and Jennifer Light
In her current research, Pollans looks at the potential and limits of urban-scale action in the face of global climate change and structural inequality at all scales. A main thread of her work examines institutional and infrastructural transformation of solid waste systems in U.S. cities, and the evaluates the ability of municipalities to influence consumption. A second set of ongoing projects examines urban food systems and food waste, and explores the consequences—technological, social, economic and ecological—of ongoing change in urban food provisioning systems.
Supervisors: Eran Ben-Joseph, Judith Layzer, Lawrence Vale, and Jennifer Light
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efficiency have proven sufficient to offset demand or create a cycle of sustainable consumption.
The Solid Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption project charts the progress that U.S. cities have made toward sustainable material consumption. It specifically examines how some cities have used waste management techniques to influence consumption and
the many barriers they have faced in so doing.
The preliminary survey results described in this report provide a snapshot of where U.S. cities are in terms of implementing sustainable materials management programs, reducing waste, and targeting material consumption.
efficiency have proven sufficient to offset demand or create a cycle of sustainable consumption.
The Solid Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption project charts the progress that U.S. cities have made toward sustainable material consumption. It specifically examines how some cities have used waste management techniques to influence consumption and
the many barriers they have faced in so doing.
The preliminary survey results described in this report provide a snapshot of where U.S. cities are in terms of implementing sustainable materials management programs, reducing waste, and targeting material consumption.