Sentences with phrase «on urban climate»

Given that Indian cities are facing climate impacts that will probably worsen, it stands to reason that a two - year - old programme like the smart city mission — the largest government driven pan-India effort on urban development — should explicitly focus on urban climate resilience.
Bibliography of urban climatology for the period 1992 - 1995 including a special section on urban climate in tropical / subtropical areas prepared by Ernesto Jáuregui.

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Thaddeus R. Miller, an Arizona State University scientist who helps lead a national research network focused on «Urban Resilience to Extreme Events,» said in an email that boosting the capacity of cities to stay safe and prosperous in a turbulent climate requires a culture shift as much as hardening physical systems:
So that is certainly something that is going on with Houston's big development and urban sprawl, and with climate change storms are getting stronger.
Also offers Climate Ventures 2.0, a 12 - week program for entrepreneurs focused on innovations in climate adaptation and resilience, particularly impacting food, agriculture and water in urbanClimate Ventures 2.0, a 12 - week program for entrepreneurs focused on innovations in climate adaptation and resilience, particularly impacting food, agriculture and water in urbanclimate adaptation and resilience, particularly impacting food, agriculture and water in urban areas.
While I believe there is already great material for men out there, as I surveyed the Bible and the culture of manhood (cross-ethnically), musical art, media, movies, magazines, the state of the church, urban dwellings, global cities, and the political climate of our country on gender, I continued to find the issue of manhood needing to be engaged.
Also at 6 p.m., Assemblywoman Deborah Glick holds a panel on climate change, sustainability and development, featuring Judith Enck, former EPA official; Andrew Farnsworth of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; and Mike Aziz, Urban Design Planner at Perkins + Will, Bob and Sheila Hoerle Lecture Hall, University Center, 63 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.
At the Wednesday meeting, Steyer will also sit down with former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulsen and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros to confer on a forthcoming report assessing the economic effects of climate change.
Also at 10 a.m., state Sen. Tony Avella co-sponsors a forum with the CUNY School of Law and the Center for Urban Environmental Reform on the Climate and Community Protection Act, 2 Court Square W., Queens.
The op - ed quoted Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues.
Dr. Jefferson's research focuses on urban watersheds and stormwater management, hydrologic responses to climate variability and change, and landscape evolution.
«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.
London researcher Rachel Lowe, Ph.D., led the development of the model that is based on 2016 climate conditions when El Nino was present in the urban coastal city of Machala, Ecuador, an area where these mosquito - borne viruses are most prevalent.
Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.
The details of the NIST study are described in a report released today in Washington, D.C., during the Fire Chiefs White House Roundtable on Climate Change Impacts at the Wildland Urban Interface.
This work, published on 11 March 2014 in the journal Environment Research Letters, will help not only to improve existing climate models, but also to assess the health impacts of pollution in Africa's urban areas.
«Adaptation to urban - induced climate change depends on specific geographic factors,» Georgescu adds, noting that white, reflective cool roofs work well in California, but could reduce rainfall from Florida up the U.S. east coast, for example.
I'm clearly never going to be in Sweet and Filardi's league — Sweet manages the museum's climate - controlled mass grave of bird corpses; Filardi spends months on end living in a hut made of leaves on the Solomon Islands, extracting birds» DNA — but even I, an urban sophisticate with a belly full of latte, experience an ineffable, or barely effable, satisfaction at the sight of a twitching organism ringed by darkness.
«Our industry has been shaken by climate perils impacting urban centres and 2017 is on track to become one of the most expensive years on record,» said Maurice Tulloch, Chairman of Global General Insurance at Aviva and Chair of ClimateWise.
The EPA report is concerned with the impacts that climate change can have on atmospheric chemistry, and in particular the summertime peaks in urban ground - level ozone which are a well - known and serious health hazard.
-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.
The MSc programme offers each student a creative combination of problem - based learning (PBL) and realistic projects with «hands - on» challenges that equip the student to address challenges pertaining to e.g. climate change, temporary urban development projects, urban mobility, projects and strategies of the culture city, the urban landscape and city growth.
On the other hand, such urban areas are unencumbered by the complicated international negotiations that hamper climate change action at the international level.
In the wake of the presidential election, Anna Scott, a Ph.D. student who works on climate and urban issues, expressed concern about the fate of the planet and her career.
He has published in numerous social science and environmental science journals on topics of land and water management, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, residential development, and urban resilience.
In 2016, nine urban school districts and their out - of - school time partners were awarded grants to help the partners collaborate on creating a plan to support the development of children's social and emotional skills by improving adult practices and climate during the school day and afterschool.
The effectiveness of the geospatial curriculum approach on urban middle level students» climate change understandings.
The Council's recent report, What We Think: Parental Perceptions of Urban School Climate, is based on the responses of 10,270 parents in 112 schools at all grade levels.
For this project, entire classrooms of students were selected based on (a) voluntary participation of teachers whose schools matched specific urban, suburban, or rural characteristics and were located in one of two major climate zones in the US, and (b) consent forms signed by the students» parents.
Resources focus on such topics as literacy, school climate, special populations, physical activity, military alliances, health and safety, male engagement, special education, and urban family engagement.
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Our current programs focus on parks as a tool for preventive healthcare, a classroom for climate education, and a resource for critical urban issues like homelessness, income and racial inequity, and rapid development.
7th grade: The geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Mayan civilization; landforms and climates of the Yucatan peninsula, and their effects on economies and development of urban societies; Mayan class structures, family life, warfare, religious beliefs and practices; and Mayan achievements in astronomy and mathematics.
Isn't that such a profound statement on poverty and the socio - economic climate in urban America?
As a Research Fellow for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Etienne Turpin's research considers the consequences of climate change on urban settlements and develops potential design responses.
Building on ongoing discussions with Dyson, McEwen examines experimentation, design, and how transformative events, such as climate change, can insight change in architecture and urban studies.
«it is a proven fact that lighter surfaces within our urban environments will decrease climate temperatures if implemented on a global scale.
Presentations focused on deepening inequality, the evidence for dangerous climate change, population trends, urban problems, new economic models and more.
Likewise, they prefer to debate urban heat island effects rather than to discuss the rising temperature trends, other clear signs of rising temperatures, the positive feedbacks which are beginning to kick in so that climate change will take on a life of its own independently of what we do in the future if changes are not made now (# 111, «Storm World» post, comment # 141) and what such climate change will imply for humanity as a whole (Curve manipulation, comment # 74, A Saturated Gassy Argument, comment # 116).
As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.
On the Irene front, it's worth reading a post by Benjamin Strauss, a scientist at Climate Central, on just how close New York City came — within one inch, by Strauss's reckoning — to costly urban floodinOn the Irene front, it's worth reading a post by Benjamin Strauss, a scientist at Climate Central, on just how close New York City came — within one inch, by Strauss's reckoning — to costly urban floodinon just how close New York City came — within one inch, by Strauss's reckoning — to costly urban flooding.
As part of the Royal Institute of British Architects series of lectures on Architecture and Climate Change, Herbert Girardet, environmentalist, urban philosopher and author spoke on «The Compelling Logic of Positive Action».
Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.
Dr. Bullard has authored numerous books on the prominence of waste facilities in predominately African - American areas all over the nation, as well as others that address urban land use, industrial facility siting, housing, transportation, climate justice, emergency response, smart growth, and equity.
The footprint of urban areas on global climate as characterized by MODIS.
Steve McIntyre: «If you are not a climate scientist (or a realclimate reader), you would almost certainly believe, from your own experience, that cities are warmer than the surrounding countryside From that, itâ s easy to conclude that as cities become bigger and as towns become cities and villages become towns, that there is a widespread impact on urban records from changes in landscape, which have to be considered before you can back out what portion is due to increased GHG.
One critical issue that seems to be conveniently avoided by denialists is that most long - term climate data stations are not urban or airport sites where one gets the daily or current temperature on the radio or TV.
The university already has initiatives on everything from «urban resilience to extremes» to «negative emissions» — developing ways to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in amounts large enough to matter at climate scale.
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