Angie Xiong, AICP

Angie Xiong, AICP

New York, New York, United States
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I first learned about the simple and elegant concept of sustainability at a Japanese…

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Volunteer Experience

  • Board Member, Chair of the Advancement Committee

    American Friends of Asian Rural Institute

    - Present 4 years 1 month

    Environment

  • California Association of Environmental Professionals Graphic

    AEP SF Bay Area Board Member

    California Association of Environmental Professionals

    - 1 year

    Environment

    As the Communications Director for the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Association of Environmental Professionals, I shared news and events with our members and contacts through newsletters, social media, and the AEP website.

Publications

  • Identifying attributes of food system sustainability: emerging themes and consensus

    Agriculture and Human Values

    Achieving food system sustainability is one of the more pressing challenges of this century. Over the last decades, experts from diverse disciplines and intellectual traditions have worked to document the critical threats to food system sustainability and to define an appropriate agenda for action. Nevertheless, these efforts have tended to focus selectively on only a few components of the food system or have tended to be framed in particular discourses. Depending on the point of departure…

    Achieving food system sustainability is one of the more pressing challenges of this century. Over the last decades, experts from diverse disciplines and intellectual traditions have worked to document the critical threats to food system sustainability and to define an appropriate agenda for action. Nevertheless, these efforts have tended to focus selectively on only a few components of the food system or have tended to be framed in particular discourses. Depending on the point of departure, what aspects of the food system are considered threatened, and what must be sustained, can differ greatly between perspectives. In this article, we draw from systems-thinking and social-ecological systems concepts to focus on the underlying process-related attributes that could support a more sustainable food system. We then examine the support for specific system attributes in six different knowledge domains addressing sustainable agriculture and food. From this review, we identify five system attributes—diversity, modularity, transparency, innovation
    and congruence—that are repeatedly featured in the different knowledge domains as critical aspects of food system sustainability. We argue that in the face of considerable complexity and high uncertainty, these attributes can serve as a guide to conceptualizing food system choices adaptively and iteratively.

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  • Integrating problem- and project-based learning into sustainability programs – A case study on the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

    International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.

    Purpose – The article aims to describe the problem- and project-based learning (PPBL) program and the institutional context at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability (SOS), with the goal of offering experience-based guidance for similar initiatives in sustainability programs around the world.

    Design/methodology/approach – This case study presents the diverse PPBL activities that SOS offers on the undergraduate and the graduate levels and examines the institutional structures…

    Purpose – The article aims to describe the problem- and project-based learning (PPBL) program and the institutional context at Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability (SOS), with the goal of offering experience-based guidance for similar initiatives in sustainability programs around the world.

    Design/methodology/approach – This case study presents the diverse PPBL activities that SOS offers on the undergraduate and the graduate levels and examines the institutional structures in place that support these activities. Data were collected through literature and document reviews, observations, interviews, student evaluations and faculty surveys.

    Findings – The review of the PPBL program at SOS illustrates a case of successfully inaugurating a PPBL program in sustainability at a major university in the USA. Yet, a key challenge for this program and similar programs around the world is how to maintain the institutional momentum and make advances after the initial takeoff. SOS is attempting to address this issue by developing greater program cohesion and coordination, synthesizing past products and learning, monitoring and evaluating impacts, and developing PPBL training programs for faculty and graduate students.

    Practical implications – The experiences and findings presented can help other programs to articulate the benefits of a PPBL initiative, anticipate implementation challenges and successfully support their own PPBL initiatives through adequate institutional structures. The review points to the fact that the major impact on both student learning and outcomes for partner organizations is achieved through a concerted effort by the organization as a whole. Successful PPBL programs require both top-down commitments from the administration and bottom-up drive from interested faculty and students.

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  • Environmental Justice in the California Environmental Quality Act? It is Here, and it is Time.

    Ascent Environmental

    Low-income households, communities of color, indigenous peoples, and tribal nations have experienced disproportionate environmental effects, pollution burdens, and related health impacts in the United States, including California. As a result, these communities face significant barriers to their overall health, livelihood, and sustainability. Notwithstanding a substantial body of state law and policy addressing environmental justice (EJ), normally progressive California has lagged on this issue…

    Low-income households, communities of color, indigenous peoples, and tribal nations have experienced disproportionate environmental effects, pollution burdens, and related health impacts in the United States, including California. As a result, these communities face significant barriers to their overall health, livelihood, and sustainability. Notwithstanding a substantial body of state law and policy addressing environmental justice (EJ), normally progressive California has lagged on this issue in its environmental review process. However, consideration of EJ in CEQA is changing because local EJ policies are becoming more common. Pursuant to Senate Bill 1000, general plans are now required to include EJ-related policies. These policies aim to reduce the unique or compounded health risks in disadvantaged communities (DACs), promote civic engagement in the public decision-making process, recognize and resolve disparities in community pollutant exposure, and prioritize improvements that address the needs of DACs (California Government Code Section 65302[h]). The legislative requirement that EJ elements or policies reduce health risks in DACs squarely connects environmental justice with CEQA in two ways:

    - CEQA requires consideration of a project’s consistency with policies adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating environmental effects; and
    - There is a legislative mandate that CEQA determinations of significance consider whether a project would “cause substantial adverse effects on human beings, whether directly or indirectly” (CEQA Section 21083[b][3]).

    General plan EJ policies that are tied to environmental impacts are the primary linkage to CEQA. With that premise in mind, Ascent has developed several recommendations for evaluating EJ in CEQA. Ascent’s recommendations are described in the AscentShare paper, “Environmental Justice in the California Environmental Quality Act: It is Here, and It is Time.”

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