Currently available U.S. landfill capacity is 6.8 billion tons, with an additional 1.3 billion tons acquired for "probable expansion".
Josh P. Newell
Position:
Core Staff
Email:
jpnewell@umich.edu
Website:
Office Location:
1064 Dana Building, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Degrees:
Ph.D., Geography, Urban Ecology Certificate, University of Washington, '08
M.A., Geography, University of Washington, '03
B.A., History, Brown University, '91
Projects:
- Advancing the Science of Infrastructure Ecology by Exploring and Explaining Universal Regularities of Urban Sustainability Indicators
- LCLUC SYNTHESIS: Forested Land Cover and Land Use Change in the Far East of the Northern Eurasia Under the Combined Drivers of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation
- Livable Communities through Sustainable Transportation: Integrated Assessment of Infrastructure Greening within Detroit for Improved Sustainable Transportation, Water Quality and Health
- Research Roadmap for Urban Sustainability
- Water Supply Scarcity in Southern California: Assessing Water District Level Strategies
Publications:
- Geographical Delimitation For Carbon Footprint Modeling In The Global Paper Industry
- Infrastructure Ecology: A Conceptual Model For Understanding Urban Sustainability
- Life-Cycle Emissions from Port Electrification: A Case Study of Cargo Handling Tractors at the Port of Los Angeles
- The Forgotten and the future: reclaiming back alleys for a systainable city
- “Papering" Over Space and Place: Product Carbon Footprint Modeling in the Global Paper Industry