Established in 1987, the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy sponsors policy-relevant, interdisciplinary research and forums that link scholarship and education with decisionmaking.
 The Center specializes in issues concerning: (1) environmental policy,
primarily
in the Southwest and U.S.-Mexico border region (2) immigration policy of the
United States (3) Indigenous nations policy.
The Native Nations Institute, founded in 2001 by the Morris K. Udall Foundation
and The University of Arizona, is an administrative unit of the Udall Center
and serves as a self-determination, governance, and development resource for
Indigenous nations.
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IMMIGRATION POLICY PUBLICATIONS AND NEWS
This special issue of Udall Center Update provides an overview of recent publications produced by Judith Gans, manager of the Udall Center's Immigration Policy Program, and of several news articles and television programs for which she was interviewed.
To see this overview online, click here. |
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ECOSYSTEM SERVICES OF MIGRATORY SPECIES
In an article published in the April 2013 issue of International Journal of Wilderness, Laura López-Hoffman, assistant professsor of environmental policy at the Udall Center, and colleagues calculate the spatial subsidies that come from protected areas' support of migratory species that provide benefits elsewhere.
To obtain a copy of the article, click here, or contact López-Hoffman at lauralh@email.arizona.edu.
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SPEAKERS AT U.N. WORLD WATER EVENT
Robert Varady, Udall Center deputy director, and Sharon Megdal, director of the UA Water Resources Research Center, spoke about water cooperation and water security at the United Nations-organized 2013 International World Water Day conference in The Hague, Netherlands.
To learn more about their presentations, click here. |
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BROCHURE ON COLORADO RIVER DELTA
A new brochure, The Colorado River Delta: An Invaluable Resource for People and Wildlife, written for a broad public audience, describes the value of the Colorado River Delta's ecosystem services to people in the local region and elsewhere.
To see a pdf copy of the brochure, click here (for English) or here (for Spanish).
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NNI DISTANCE LEARNING MODULE
Part of NNI's Rebuilding Native Nations certificate course series, this module, "Administration," provides an overview of the role of bureaucracies in advancing nation-building efforts, the keys to effective governmental administration and program management, and the distinct roles elected leaders and administrators should play in making effective management happen.
To learn more about this module, click here. |
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ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND NEPA
Udall Center researchers Carrie Presnall and Laura López-Hoffman, along with UA colleague Marc L. Miller, are authors of a new study, Incorporating an Ecosystem Services Approach in Environmental Impact Statements, that evaluates the results of a survey of U.S. Forest Service staff who work on NEPA-related environmental impact assessments.
To see this report, click here. |
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DEFINING "WATER SECURITY"
In the current issue of Arizona Water Resource (published by the UA Water Resources Research Center, Winter 2013), Udall Center researchers Robert Varady and Christopher Scott, propose and discuss a working definition of "water security" in a guest opinion essay, "How should we understand 'water security'?"
To see this essay, click here.
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TRIBAL SETTLEMENT FUNDS
NNI research director Miriam Jorgensen was interviewed in the current issue of High Country News for an article about the issues and debates surrounding how Native nations plan to use recently awarded federal trust fund settlements.
To see this article, click here. |
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WATER SECURITY IN THE ARID AMERICAS
Udall Center researchers Christopher Scott, Robert Varady, Jamie McEvoy, and Margaret Wilder, plus colleagues from the UA and across Latin America, recently published an article, "Water security and adaptive management in the arid Americas," in the current issue of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, special issue, Geographies of Water.
To view this article, click here. |
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HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
Udall Center associate research professor Christopher Scott and Udall Center research associate Stephanie Buechler recently published the article, "Iterative driver-response dynamics of human-environment interactions in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands," in Ecosphere, a journal of the Ecological Society of America.
To view the article, click here. |
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NNI HOSTS LUNCHEON FOR OREN LYONS
NNI staff members met with Chief Oren Lyons (right) prior to his delivering the second lecture in the Vine Deloria, Jr., Distinguished Indigenous Scholars Series (see more here) organized by the UA American Indian Studies Program and co-sponsored by NNI.
For more information and a list of those attending the luncheon, click here. |
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INTEGRATED ASSESSMENTS IN THE AMERICAS
Robert Varady, Udall Center deputy director, is co-editor of "Rethinking Integrated Assessments and Management Projects in the Americas," a recently published special issue of the journal Environmental Science & Policy. The issue comprises ten papers that explore complementary approaches to interdisciplinary integrated assessment in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Central America, Mexico, and the United States.
To see this special issue, click here. |
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GOVERNANCE OF ARCTIC RESOURCES
A new environmental policy working paper published by the Udall Center, Economic Change in the Arctic: Is the Antarctic Governance Model Needed? and authored by Bernard P. Herber, UA professor emeritus of economics and a 1991-92 Udall Center Fellow, discusses a possible model of governance for Arctic natural resources.
To see this report, click here.
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