A5026612849- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Urban Green Space and Health
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Regional resilience and development
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate variability and models
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
City University of New York
2014-2024
Hunter College
2015-2024
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2024
CUNY Energy Institute
2022
University of Botswana
2020-2021
Lodz University of Technology
2020
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
2019
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2019
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
2019
University of Maine
2019
Abstract Implementation of urban heat island (UHI) mitigation strategies such as increased vegetative cover and higher-albedo surface materials can reduce the impacts biophysical hazards in cities, including stress related to elevated temperatures, air pollution associated public health effects. Such also lower demand for air-conditioning-related energy production. Since local global climate change may be intensified areas with UHIs, could play an increasingly important role individuals...
Forewords Acknowledgements Executive summary 1. Introduction Part I. Defining the Risk Framework: 2. Cities, disasters and climate risk 3. Urban climate: processes, trends projections II. Sectors: 4. Climate change urban energy systems 5. change, water wastewater 6. transportation 7. human health in cities III. Cross-Cutting Issues: 8. The role of land 9. Cities change: challenges for governance Annex: list contributors Index.
This paper considers the very large differences in adaptive capacity among world’s urban centres. It then discusses how risk levels may change for a range of climatic drivers impacts near term (2030–2040) and long (2080–2100) with 2°C 4°C warming Dar es Salaam, Durban, London New York City. The is drawn directly from Chapter 8 Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation Vulnerability, IPCC Working Group II contribution to Fifth Assessment Report. includes complete text this chapter’s Executive...
Climate change is a severe global threat. Research on climate and vulnerability to natural hazards has made significant progress over the last decades. Most of research been devoted improving quality information hazard data, including exposure specific phenomena, such as flooding or sea-level rise. Less attention given assessment embedded social, economic historical conditions that foster societies. A number assessments based indicators have developed past years. Yet an essential question...
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. IEA, World Energy Outlook 2008 (Paris, OECD/IEA, 2008); UNFPA, State of the Population: Unleashing Potential Urban Growth (New York, NY: United Nations Population Fund, 2007); and Nations, National Accounts Main Aggregates Database Statistics Divison, 2011), available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama (accessed March 21, 2012). 2. See, for example, M. R. Montgomery, Stren, et al., Cities Transformed, Demographic Change in its...
Abstract Climate change caused by increased anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases is a long-term climate hazard with the potential to alter intensity, temporal pattern, spatial extent urban heat island (UHI) in metropolitan regions. Particular meteorological conditions—including high temperature, low cloud cover, average wind speed—tend intensify effect. Analyses existing archived data for vicinities Newark Camden, New Jersey indicate suburban/rural...
Leichenko, R. M. and Solecki, W. D. (2005) Exporting the American dream: globalization of suburban consumption landscapes, Regional Studies 39 , 241–253. This paper examines how cultural, economic political aspects interact with processes urbanization in less developed country (LDC) cities to create new landscapes housing consumption. Drawing evidence from current literature, demonstrates that influence preferences decisions a small yet growing, middle‐income segment LDC urban residents....