Charisma Acey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.  Her background includes work, research and travel to countries in West Africa, southern Africa and Central America.  Her work focuses on local and regional environmental sustainability, with a focus on poverty reduction, urban governance and access to basic services.  Recent and ongoing research includes fieldwork in Ghana, Nigeria and Uganda exploring sustainable household scale alternative energy solutions and access to basic services such as water and sanitation.

Some of Professor Acey’s publications are “Managing wickedness in the Niger Delta: Can a new approach to multi-stakeholder governance increase voice and sustainability?” Landscape and Urban Planning, April 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.03.014; “Sustainability from the Bottom-Up: Women as Change Agents in the Niger Delta.”  In Women's emancipation and civil society organizations: Challenging or maintaining the status quo? eds. Schwabenland, C., Lange, C., Onyx, J. and Nakagawa, S. (2016 forthcoming) Bristol: Policy Press; “Nigeria – The Right to Water:  The Role of the Private Sector in Urban Water Sector Reform.” In International Planning Case Studies (IPCS) project.  University of Michigan and University of Colorado Denver. eds. Hoey, L., Rumbach, A., Shake, J. (2016).

Professor Acey earned her PhD in Urban Planning at UCLA.

This lecture is the last lecture of ASCSS.

Cost : Free and open to the public.

http://international.ucla.edu/africa/

Sponsor(s): African Studies Center