October 5, 2026
Associate Professor Odessa Gonzalez Benson and PhD student Nicolas Juarez’s research is the subject of a Scienmag article on the 2022 Manila Bay Sustainable Development Master Plan. Gonzalez Benson and Juarez examine how the grassroots communities are being given responsibilities that outstrip the power, resources and knowledge they would need to carry them out.
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Odessa Gonzalez BensonAssociate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work, and Associate Professor of Urban Planning, A Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning -
Nicolas I. JuarezGraduate Student Research Assistant