A5077853158- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Finance, Taxation, and Governance
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Resource Management and Quality
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Environmental and Ecological Studies
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
University of Toronto
2023-2025
Canada Research Chairs
2023
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2018-2023
Parkinson's Foundation
2023
China Shenhua Energy (China)
2023
University of Chicago
2018-2021
Georgia Institute of Technology
2021
NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
2009-2019
Futures Group (United States)
2016
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
2008-2014
Abstract Approximately 75–80% of the population North America currently lives in urban areas as defined by national census bureaus, and urbanization is continuing to increase. Future trajectories fossil fuel emissions are associated with a high degree uncertainty; however, if activities residents rate land conversion can be captured systems models, plausible scenarios from major cities may generated. Integrated use transportation models that simulate energy traffic‐related already place many...
Urbanization and urban areas are profoundly altering the relationship between society environment, affecting cities’ sustainability resilience in complex ways at alarming rates. Over last decades, have become key concepts aimed understanding existing dynamics responding to challenges of creating livable futures. Sustainability also moved now core analytic normative for many scholars, transnational networks communities practice. Yet, even with this elevated scholarly attention, strategies...
ABSTRACT Cities are both significant emitters of carbon dioxide and centres innovations that may contribute to de-carbonizing our societies. More voices claim therefore local authorities should be included in efforts mitigate climate change. However, few studies have analysed how manage urban areas middle- low-income countries. Yet, the institutional settings governance structures such cities different from those prevailing wealthy This paper aims fill this gap by exploring: (a) whether...
Urban centres play a crucial role in managing global carbon emissions (mitigation) and reducing vulnerability to climate change (adaptation). This paper describes some of the mitigation adaptation entry points challenges for city-relevant planning policy-making posed by processes defining urban greenhouse gas emissions, vulnerabilities adaptive capacities. It finds that although many cities are already responding challenge, existing initiatives fragmented piecemeal rather than strategic...
This paper describes the risks that Mexico City faces from flooding and water scarcity, how these developed over time climate change will affect them. It begins by discussing climatic hydrological conditions explain abundance of resources droughts floods have affected city its surrounds for centuries. then presents water-relevant implications considers who is likely to be most impacted. Floods, other hazards are result not only “nature” (and now human-induced change) but also past present...
Abstract Independent lines of research on urbanization, urban areas, and carbon have advanced our understanding some the processes through which energy land uses affect carbon. This synthesis integrates these diverse viewpoints as a first step toward coproduced, integrated framework for their relationships to It suggests need approaches that complement combine plethora existing insights into interdisciplinary explorations how different urbanization processes, socio‐ecological technological...
Abstract This paper outlines the contributions of social science to study interactions between urbanization patterns and processes carbon cycle, identifies gaps in knowledge priority areas for future scientific research contributions. While previously studied as a unidimensional process, we conceptualize multidimensional, biophysical process driven by continuous changes across space time various subsystems including biophysical, built environment, socio‐institutional (e.g., economic,...