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Urban Transformation
The world is running out of sand
Over exploitation of global sand supplies is putting the environment at risk and prompting global shortages.
Jodi joined the Human-Environment Systems Research Center at Boise State University in 2015. The goal of her research is to better understand how human societies and healthy ecosystems can thrive, on a rapidly changing planet.