Kyle D. Brown, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
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Dr. Brown is Director of the John T. Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies and an Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture. He has experience in natural resource management, the design of green infrastructure at the community and regional scales, and participatory community planning and design. He has worked with marginalized communities throughout Southern California and Northern Mexico on a variety of issues, including hazard avoidance/mitigation, water resource management, open space planning, and sustaining ecological integrity. His research interests include the application of geographic information systems in landscape planning and environmental and social justice issues.

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Miriam Cope
Co-Principal Investigator

Miriam Cope is Director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems Research at Cal Poly Pomona University. She received her Master's Degree in GIS and International Development from Clark University in 2001. She studied remote sensing and water management in Israel ona Fulbright Scholarship in 2002. She has worked for the hydrologist for Colorado State Parks and for senior water engineers on projects involving water management of the Denver Basin and state parks across Colorado. Miriam's current interest focuses on the intersection of environmental, human and ethical dynamics of international development. In 2003, Miriam completed training in Participatory Rural Appraisal, in Njoro, Kenya.

Pablo La Roche is an Assistant Professor of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, with experience in green architecture and affordable housing. He has participated in the design and construction of architectural projects which have been published or received awards in Venezuela, Mexico and Spain. His research interests include passive cooling systems, low energy architecture and sustainable, affordable housing for deprived communities, publishing extensively in these topics in conferences and journals in America, Europe and Australia. Recently, Professor La Roche was the principal author of the sixth book in a series published by the Passive Low Energy Architecture Association, PLEA, "Keeping Cool: Guidelines to Avoid Overheating in Buildings".

Denise Lawrence, Ph.D.
Co-Principal Investigator

Dr. Lawrence is a social anthropologist with teaching and consulting experience in programming behavioral, social and cultural factors in the design of architecture and landscape architecture projects. Beginning as the behavioral consultant in the design of the Center for Regenerative Studies, she has developed and maintained a confirmed interest in the intended and unintended consequences of integrating human activity in sustainable community designs. Her research interests focus on house form and family organization, the organization and expression of domesticity, through a longitudinal study of auto construction in rural southern Portugal. She also conducts research on aesthetic knowledge and taste in the historic preservation of housing in Portugal and the U.S. and has studied urban rituals of satirical dissent in Spain and the U.S. She has worked among urban Native Americans regarding health care issues and with low income Latinos in the greater Los Angeles area.