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Nicola Ulibarri

@ulibarri.bsky.social
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Associate professor at UC Irvine. Nuevo mexicana. Environmental policy & management, water, climate, collaborative governance, and diversifying academia. faculty.sites.uci.edu/ulibarri

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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We’re proud to share that Associate Professor @ulibarri.bsky.social from the Dept. of Urban Planning & Public Policy is guiding policy & regulatory analysis for the @ucirvine.bsky.social Climate Collaboration’s Healthy Coasts Project, which aims to better and protect our coastline: ow.ly/v77H50YlfH6
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
'Tis the season of New Year's resolutions! But, if you, like me, are guessing that 2026 will be full of uncertainty and disruption I'd offer a slight twist. Think about how, in the year to come, you can invest in your coping capacity.
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
UCI has a new MPA focused on urban & environmental sustainability! For more: mpa.soceco.uci.edu
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Associate Professor Nícola Ulibarrí of the @ucirvine.bsky.social Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy has won the Academy of Management's 2025 Best Journal Article Award for research that flips conventional wisdom about conflict on its head. ow.ly/WQ9450X31J4
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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The @ucirvine.bsky.social Labor Center seeks a research director for impactful work on workers' rights and economic justice. Direct questions to wnicholl@uci.edu. The application review date is Sept. 22, so get on it at ... recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09842
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Labor Center Research Director
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Urban planning & public policy Associate Professor @ulibarri.bsky.social of @ucirvine.bsky.social and Division Chief Nick Freeman of @ocfireauthority.bsky.social explain "How Social Ecology Makes Your Life Better" when it comes to battling and preventing wildfires in our latest Impact Series video.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 06/07/2025
Also, we can do lots of JAM: Joint Adaptation and Mitigation. Stuff that reduces both emissions and vulnerability to climate impacts. - Air-sealing buildings (and adding intentional filtration/ventilation) reduces heat/cooling demand, hence emissions, as well as health impacts from wildfire smoke.
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I'm famous!
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I'm honored and excited to receive this year's Best Article Award from @aompnp.bsky.social! This is easily one of my favorite articles I've written, and it's awesome to see it recognized -- 13 years after I started collecting the data:)
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AOM Public and Nonprofit Division (PNP) @aompnp.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Congrats to @ulibarri.bsky.social, winner of AOM-PNP's 2025 Best Journal Article Award for "An Analysis of Micro-Scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance" (doi.org/10.1093/jopa...) #AOM2025 #pasky
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Winners of the 2025 Best Journal Article Award
"An Analysis of Micro-Scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance"
Academy of Management, Public and Nonprofit Division
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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
REMINDER: Register by this Thursday for Igniting Solutions: What Can OC Learn from the LA Wildfires? The UC Irvine Climate & Urban Sustainability Program event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 9, in SBSG 1517. Please RSVP here: campusgroups.uci.edu/SoEco/rsvp_boot?id=1939704
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Igniting Solutions: What can OC learn from the LA Wildfires - School of Social Ecology
Join the Climate Urban Sustainability Program (CUSP) team and UC Irvine experts for an insightful roundtable as we dive into lessons learned from the recent LA fires, explore Orange County’s curren...
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socialecology.uci.edu @ucisocialecology.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Through words and video, learn how UC Irvine urban planning & public policy Associate Professor Nicola Ulibarri countered the "dominant narrative" about water in California during an all-day summit presented in Sacramento by UC Berkeley's Possibility Lab. socialecology.uci.edu/news/how-dry-we-arent
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This April Fools, here's my favorite @theonion.com article related to my work! theonion.com/drought-bad-...
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Drought Bad
Water Good
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
On my way home from 2 invigorating days thinking about how to build abundance for essential policy areas for all Californians with the Abundance Policy Consortium. Grateful to see the power of community and our local and state governments -- there's still so many of us doing important work!
An inscription in the elevator: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire"
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
New paper led by Jie Wang: Motivations for collaborative governance in China: a systematic review of the literature. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Motivations for collaborative governance in China: a systematic review of the literature
This article highlights the role of political context in shaping motivation of actors from the public sector, the private sector, and civil society to work together collaboratively. Most studies on...
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Stephen Floor @snf.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl. can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Are you a young scholar working on cities and climate change? Maybe you want to be an @ipcc.bsky.social chapter scientist for the Special Report on cities. Check it out: www.ipcc.ch/2025/01/27/c...
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Call for Applications: Chapter Scientists to support the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities — IPCC
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I LOVE the obstacle course metaphor. I know so many talented minority scientists (including my husband) who were pushed out of academia because their records were a little too "weird" (not "innovative" or "boundary spanning")
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.
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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 23/01/2025
The freeze of the NIH is just the latest culmination of the right's long war on science, education, and democracy. Here are some of my ideas for what I think scientists can do about it. 🧪 conservechange.medium.com/five-things-...
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Five things scientists can do to fight the rise of fascism.
Access to trustworthy information is among the most important preconditions for safeguarding democracy.
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Monica Palta @monicapalta.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hi Bluesky 👋🏼 I'm an Urban Water Specialist @ucanr.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social. My research focuses on designing and managing urban environments to create sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between natural ecosystems and people. #WaterResources #NatureBasedSolutions #WaterJustice
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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I'm a big proponent of prescribed fire, but it's absurd to see articles about how lack of Rx fire in *forest* settings has contributed to the LA fires. Very little if any of the acreage that has burned is forest, or even woodland. So many inaccurate takes out there. www.newsweek.com/controlled-b...
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How red tape strangled California forest management before LA fires
"Mother nature doesn't wait for paperwork."
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 09/01/2025
Get people safe. Get the fires out. Then, build back different. No more building for the climate of the 20th century. Build back like we know climate disasters are coming. Build back like we know climate disasters are here.
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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We've been studying wildfire recovery for the last 4 years. It's a horrible mess. Many survivors think the worst is over when the fire ends, but then comes paperwork, weird federal rules, scams, etc. Some never rebuild or lose everything. Follow guidance from those who have been there, done that.
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Media coverage about the #PalisadesFire highlights the need for dialogue about values to guide planning & response. Is a firefighter's life worth more or less than a celebrity's house? Or a 1000yo artefact? There are people who (validly) value each, yet with climate change we will face tradeoffs
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Celebrities among thousands evacuated in Los Angeles fires
Wildfires that ripped through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles forced many Hollywood stars, including Mark Hamill, Mandy Moore and James Woods, to evacuate their homes.
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
My son has been obsessed with this flood adaptation game from PBS Kids: pbskids.org/designsquad/... @sidersadapts.bsky.social
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Don't Flood the Fidgits Game . DESIGN SQUAD GLOBAL | PBS KIDS
Build a city for the Fidgits that will stay safe and dry during a flood. Experiment with real-world building materials in this absorbing simulation game.
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Read our social cost of carbon meta-review machine-learning something something open access in @pnas.org here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties | PNAS
Estimating the cost to society from a ton of CO2—termed the social cost of carbon (SCC)—requires connecting a model of the climate system with a re...
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Wrapped up my first in person field work in ages! We surveyed beach goers about their activities and values, to inform how state agencies might adapt the beach and highway to erosion and SLR.
The research team!Surfers and dog walkers on the beach A highway overlooking a coastal bluffA campground held up by riprap
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Mimi Ko Cruz @mimikocruz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
How did Orange Countians vote in November's general election? The latest UCI-OC Poll from the @ucirvine.bsky.social @ucisocialecology.bsky.social shows who different local populations supported, solidifying the County of Orange's "purple" status. tinyurl.com/UCIOCPOLLvote24
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Jim O'Donnell @jimodonnell2.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
If your loved one is a reader who loves rivers, history and a vision for the future...might I suggest this mightly little book as a holiday gift...? FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell www.torreyhouse.org/fountain-creek #Rivers #NatureWriting #Colorado #water #History
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Torrey House Press | FOUNTAIN CREEK by Jim O'Donnell
From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, ...
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Nicola Ulibarri @ulibarri.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Finally getting set up here on Bluesky! I'm an interdisiplinary social scientist focused on environmental governance. I love discussing research on water management, climate adaptation, infrastructure siting, coastal management, collaboration and participation. Looking forward to connecting!
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