Gregory Pierce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Pierce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierce |
| SIGNATURE | PIERCE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8164-5825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Water utility residential customer disconnections and sociodemographic effects from across pandemic-era policy shifts: Evidence from New Jersey
Trust and Trade-Offs: Gendered Responses to Tap Water Insecurity and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies
Gendered decision making around household water use and spending is well-documented in the Global South but remains under-explored in the United States. This study examines how gender and trust in tap water influence caregivers’ use of bottled or filtered water, sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption, and attitudes toward SSB taxation in California’s San Joaquin Valley, one of the state’s most environmentally burdened regions. We analyze surv…
Adapting urban water supply infrastructure and policies for wildfire in the 21st century
Energy justice at the utility scale: Insights from Los Angeles's path to decarbonization
The multiple drivers of thermal disparities in US manufactured housing
Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather hazard. Residents of manufactured housing – in both urban and rural settings – are more likely than those in other housing types to need medical attention due to heat exposure at home. This study thus examines the drivers of residential thermal disparities for manufactured housing residents across the US. We use data from the 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey and 2021 American Hous…
Planning for heat beyond the big city: Comparing smaller cities’ heat activities, opportunities, and constraints in California
How Did Utility Shutoff Procedures and Household Shutoff Outcomes Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic? Assessing Sociodemographic and Geographic Variation Across the United States
Utility shutoffs due to an inability to pay can have severe consequences for the health and well-being of those who experience them, especially during a public health crisis. Starting in March 2020, many states and utilities across the United States instituted utility shutoff moratoria for the first time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This new policy approach was often based on the expressly stated logic that these services were essential …
Drinking water quality and social vulnerability linkages at the system level in the United States
Growing recognition of water quality concerns, particularly in socially vulnerable communities in the United States, has prompted recent policies and investments to improve drinking water system performance. Current environmental justice tools limit measurement of drinking water quality issues to proximity to point-source contamination, such as superfund sites and social vulnerability to county level or zip code level data. We examined relationsh…
From "trust" to "trustworthiness: Retheorizing dynamics of trust, distrust, and water security in North America
Assumptions of trust in water systems are widespread in higher-income countries, often linked to expectations of "modern water." The current literature on water and trust also tends to reinforce a technoscientific approach, emphasizing the importance of aligning water user perceptions with expert assessments. Although such approaches can be useful to document instances of distrust, they often fail to explain why patterns differ over time, and acr…
Households Living in Manufactured Housing Face Outsized Exposure to Heat and Wildfire Hazards: Evidence from California
Past research has shown that households living in manufactured housing have outsized exposure and vulnerability to multiple climate-related hazards, including floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Yet, few studies have specifically analyzed the risk of hot and dry climate change-induced hazards, such as extreme heat and wildfires, on households living in manufactured housing. In this study, we first use national American Housing Survey data to provi…
Perceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designers
Natural treatment systems (NTS) for stormwater have the potential to provide a myriad of ecosystem services to society. Realizing this potential requires active collaboration among engineers, ecologists and landscape planners and begins with a paradigm shift in communication whereby these groups are made aware of each other's perceptions about NTS and the presence of knowledge gaps that their respective disciplines can bridge. Here we participate…
Multifaceted intra-city water system arrangements in California: Influences and implications for residents
Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge: Do They Matter for Support and Investment in Local Stormwater Infrastructure
Stormwater infrastructure substantially impacts water quality and supply. In the U.S., local agency investments rely on public support from taxes or fees. Assessing individuals’ knowledge and willingness to pay helps inform potential pathways to funding and green infrastructure implementation. Using a 2018–2019 survey of 868 University of California students and staff, we analyze stormwater knowledge and willingness to pay or support public fund …
Why and How Do Cities Plan for Extreme Heat
Heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the United States. This paper studies municipal heat adaptation using survey and planning data from California. We first analyze the characteristics of municipalities that innovate. Cities with heat-related policies have greater degrees of projected extreme heat, leadership support, environmental justice planning, and smaller Hispanic population shares. We then assess specific policy innovations of …
Extreme Heat Vulnerability of Subsidized Housing Residents in California
Extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of mortality in the United States, but there is little evidence about how this climate hazard affects residents of different housing types. In this study, we examine whether Californians living in subsidized housing are more vulnerable to extreme heat than those living in unsubsidized housing. We create a tract-level data set combining housing characteristics, downscaled climate projections, and a…
From yards to cities: A simple and generalizable probabilistic framework for upscaling outdoor water conservation behavior
Outdoor watering of lawns accounts for about half of single-family residential potable water demand in the arid southwest United States. Consequently, many water utilities in the region offer customers cash rebates to replace lawns with drought tolerant landscaping. Here we present a parcel-scale analysis of water savings achieved by a ‘cash-for-grass’ program offered to 60 000 homes in Southern California. The probability a resident will partici…
The case for state-level drinking water affordability programs: Conceptual and empirical evidence from California
Parking policy: The effects of residential minimum parking requirements in Seattle
How collectively organised residents in marginalised urban settlements secure multiple basic service enhancements: Evidence from Hyderabad, India
Residents of marginalised urban settlements in low- and middle-income countries jointly experience multiple short-term basic service deficits which impair their health and broader wellbeing. A wide range of bottom-up strategies has been identified and employed to enhance basic service access in these contexts, but few scholars have attempted to conceptually organise these strategies. This study synthesises the disparate means identified in the li…
Improperly-zoned, spatially-marginalized, and poorly-served? An analysis of mobile home parks in Los Angeles County
Public Drinking Water System Coverage and Its Discontents: The Prevalence and Severity of Water Access Problems in California's Mobile Home Parks
Existing evidence regarding drinking water access and environmental service access more broadly suggests that service provision is substandard in mobile home parks (MHPs). Insufficient water access conditions are particularly troubling given that a substantial proportion of the population resides in MHPs. There have been few targeted studies on environmental service conditions, much less water access conditions within parks. To address this pauci…
Car access and long-term poverty exposure: Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment
Why is basic service access worse in slums? A synthesis of obstacles
Many residents of urban areas face joint obstacles to basic service access, but these barriers are more prevalent and severe in slum settlements. Analyses of obstacles have typically been conducted in a piecemeal rather than synthetic framework and have focused on access to single services rather than the range of services needed to support household welfare. By contrast, this study uses data from fieldwork in four slum settlements situated in Hy…
The Drive to Work: The Relationship between Transportation Access, Housing Assistance, and Employment among Participants in the Welfare to Work Voucher Program
Transportation enables low-income individuals to find and travel to employment. This article analyzes the relationship between access to automobiles and public transit and employment outcomes of low-income households. We use longitudinal survey data from participants in the Welfare to Work Voucher Program, which was conducted in five US metropolitan areas between 1999 and 2005. Multinomial logistic regression shows that baseline access to automob…
Reversing the arrow of arrears: The concept of “ecological debt” and its value for environmental justice
Reversing the arrow of arrears: The concept of “ecological debt” and its value for environmental justice
Improperly-zoned, spatially-marginalized, and poorly-served? An analysis of mobile home parks in Los Angeles County
The case for state-level drinking water affordability programs: Conceptual and empirical evidence from California
From "trust" to "trustworthiness: Retheorizing dynamics of trust, distrust, and water security in North America
Assumptions of trust in water systems are widespread in higher-income countries, often linked to expectations of "modern water." The current literature on water and trust also tends to reinforce a technoscientific approach, emphasizing the importance of aligning water user perceptions with expert assessments. Although such approaches can be useful to document instances of distrust, they often fail to explain why patterns differ over time, and acr…
Why and How Do Cities Plan for Extreme Heat
Heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the United States. This paper studies municipal heat adaptation using survey and planning data from California. We first analyze the characteristics of municipalities that innovate. Cities with heat-related policies have greater degrees of projected extreme heat, leadership support, environmental justice planning, and smaller Hispanic population shares. We then assess specific policy innovations of …
Why is basic service access worse in slums? A synthesis of obstacles
Many residents of urban areas face joint obstacles to basic service access, but these barriers are more prevalent and severe in slum settlements. Analyses of obstacles have typically been conducted in a piecemeal rather than synthetic framework and have focused on access to single services rather than the range of services needed to support household welfare. By contrast, this study uses data from fieldwork in four slum settlements situated in Hy…
The Drive to Work: The Relationship between Transportation Access, Housing Assistance, and Employment among Participants in the Welfare to Work Voucher Program
Transportation enables low-income individuals to find and travel to employment. This article analyzes the relationship between access to automobiles and public transit and employment outcomes of low-income households. We use longitudinal survey data from participants in the Welfare to Work Voucher Program, which was conducted in five US metropolitan areas between 1999 and 2005. Multinomial logistic regression shows that baseline access to automob…
How collectively organised residents in marginalised urban settlements secure multiple basic service enhancements: Evidence from Hyderabad, India
Residents of marginalised urban settlements in low- and middle-income countries jointly experience multiple short-term basic service deficits which impair their health and broader wellbeing. A wide range of bottom-up strategies has been identified and employed to enhance basic service access in these contexts, but few scholars have attempted to conceptually organise these strategies. This study synthesises the disparate means identified in the li…
Car access and long-term poverty exposure: Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment
Multifaceted intra-city water system arrangements in California: Influences and implications for residents
Reversing the arrow of arrears: The concept of “ecological debt” and its value for environmental justice
The Drive to Work: The Relationship between Transportation Access, Housing Assistance, and Employment among Participants in the Welfare to Work Voucher Program
Transportation enables low-income individuals to find and travel to employment. This article analyzes the relationship between access to automobiles and public transit and employment outcomes of low-income households. We use longitudinal survey data from participants in the Welfare to Work Voucher Program, which was conducted in five US metropolitan areas between 1999 and 2005. Multinomial logistic regression shows that baseline access to automob…
Public Drinking Water System Coverage and Its Discontents: The Prevalence and Severity of Water Access Problems in California's Mobile Home Parks
Existing evidence regarding drinking water access and environmental service access more broadly suggests that service provision is substandard in mobile home parks (MHPs). Insufficient water access conditions are particularly troubling given that a substantial proportion of the population resides in MHPs. There have been few targeted studies on environmental service conditions, much less water access conditions within parks. To address this pauci…
Car access and long-term poverty exposure: Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment
Why is basic service access worse in slums? A synthesis of obstacles
Many residents of urban areas face joint obstacles to basic service access, but these barriers are more prevalent and severe in slum settlements. Analyses of obstacles have typically been conducted in a piecemeal rather than synthetic framework and have focused on access to single services rather than the range of services needed to support household welfare. By contrast, this study uses data from fieldwork in four slum settlements situated in Hy…
Improperly-zoned, spatially-marginalized, and poorly-served? An analysis of mobile home parks in Los Angeles County
Extreme Heat Vulnerability of Subsidized Housing Residents in California
Extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of mortality in the United States, but there is little evidence about how this climate hazard affects residents of different housing types. In this study, we examine whether Californians living in subsidized housing are more vulnerable to extreme heat than those living in unsubsidized housing. We create a tract-level data set combining housing characteristics, downscaled climate projections, and a…
From yards to cities: A simple and generalizable probabilistic framework for upscaling outdoor water conservation behavior
Outdoor watering of lawns accounts for about half of single-family residential potable water demand in the arid southwest United States. Consequently, many water utilities in the region offer customers cash rebates to replace lawns with drought tolerant landscaping. Here we present a parcel-scale analysis of water savings achieved by a ‘cash-for-grass’ program offered to 60 000 homes in Southern California. The probability a resident will partici…
The case for state-level drinking water affordability programs: Conceptual and empirical evidence from California
Parking policy: The effects of residential minimum parking requirements in Seattle
How collectively organised residents in marginalised urban settlements secure multiple basic service enhancements: Evidence from Hyderabad, India
Residents of marginalised urban settlements in low- and middle-income countries jointly experience multiple short-term basic service deficits which impair their health and broader wellbeing. A wide range of bottom-up strategies has been identified and employed to enhance basic service access in these contexts, but few scholars have attempted to conceptually organise these strategies. This study synthesises the disparate means identified in the li…
Multifaceted intra-city water system arrangements in California: Influences and implications for residents
Environmental Attitudes and Knowledge: Do They Matter for Support and Investment in Local Stormwater Infrastructure
Stormwater infrastructure substantially impacts water quality and supply. In the U.S., local agency investments rely on public support from taxes or fees. Assessing individuals’ knowledge and willingness to pay helps inform potential pathways to funding and green infrastructure implementation. Using a 2018–2019 survey of 868 University of California students and staff, we analyze stormwater knowledge and willingness to pay or support public fund …
Why and How Do Cities Plan for Extreme Heat
Heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the United States. This paper studies municipal heat adaptation using survey and planning data from California. We first analyze the characteristics of municipalities that innovate. Cities with heat-related policies have greater degrees of projected extreme heat, leadership support, environmental justice planning, and smaller Hispanic population shares. We then assess specific policy innovations of …
Households Living in Manufactured Housing Face Outsized Exposure to Heat and Wildfire Hazards: Evidence from California
Past research has shown that households living in manufactured housing have outsized exposure and vulnerability to multiple climate-related hazards, including floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes. Yet, few studies have specifically analyzed the risk of hot and dry climate change-induced hazards, such as extreme heat and wildfires, on households living in manufactured housing. In this study, we first use national American Housing Survey data to provi…
Perceived services and disservices of natural treatment systems for urban stormwater: Insight from the next generation of designers
Natural treatment systems (NTS) for stormwater have the potential to provide a myriad of ecosystem services to society. Realizing this potential requires active collaboration among engineers, ecologists and landscape planners and begins with a paradigm shift in communication whereby these groups are made aware of each other's perceptions about NTS and the presence of knowledge gaps that their respective disciplines can bridge. Here we participate…
Drinking water quality and social vulnerability linkages at the system level in the United States
Growing recognition of water quality concerns, particularly in socially vulnerable communities in the United States, has prompted recent policies and investments to improve drinking water system performance. Current environmental justice tools limit measurement of drinking water quality issues to proximity to point-source contamination, such as superfund sites and social vulnerability to county level or zip code level data. We examined relationsh…
From "trust" to "trustworthiness: Retheorizing dynamics of trust, distrust, and water security in North America
Assumptions of trust in water systems are widespread in higher-income countries, often linked to expectations of "modern water." The current literature on water and trust also tends to reinforce a technoscientific approach, emphasizing the importance of aligning water user perceptions with expert assessments. Although such approaches can be useful to document instances of distrust, they often fail to explain why patterns differ over time, and acr…
How Did Utility Shutoff Procedures and Household Shutoff Outcomes Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic? Assessing Sociodemographic and Geographic Variation Across the United States
Utility shutoffs due to an inability to pay can have severe consequences for the health and well-being of those who experience them, especially during a public health crisis. Starting in March 2020, many states and utilities across the United States instituted utility shutoff moratoria for the first time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This new policy approach was often based on the expressly stated logic that these services were essential …
Trust and Trade-Offs: Gendered Responses to Tap Water Insecurity and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policies
Gendered decision making around household water use and spending is well-documented in the Global South but remains under-explored in the United States. This study examines how gender and trust in tap water influence caregivers’ use of bottled or filtered water, sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption, and attitudes toward SSB taxation in California’s San Joaquin Valley, one of the state’s most environmentally burdened regions. We analyze surv…
Adapting urban water supply infrastructure and policies for wildfire in the 21st century
Energy justice at the utility scale: Insights from Los Angeles's path to decarbonization
The multiple drivers of thermal disparities in US manufactured housing
Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather hazard. Residents of manufactured housing – in both urban and rural settings – are more likely than those in other housing types to need medical attention due to heat exposure at home. This study thus examines the drivers of residential thermal disparities for manufactured housing residents across the US. We use data from the 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey and 2021 American Hous…
Planning for heat beyond the big city: Comparing smaller cities’ heat activities, opportunities, and constraints in California
Water utility residential customer disconnections and sociodemographic effects from across pandemic-era policy shifts: Evidence from New Jersey
Business (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Climate Change and Health Impacts (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works)