Hanoi – a city typically known for its charming Old Quarter and mouth-watering pho – has recently attracted attention for a different reason: poor air quality. On September 29, the U.S. Embassy’s monitoring station in Hanoi registered hourly Air Quality Index (AQI)...
This past July, I was invited to present our Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) at the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC ’19) in Dalian, China as part of the Global Situation Space forum. This space...
In May 2019, I visited Myanmar and Cambodia to conduct fieldwork as part of Director Angel Hsu’s research on “Urbanization in Southeast Asia.” Since the start of the year, researchers at Data-Driven Lab have been using satellite images and open social media data to...
Earlier this summer, I packed my bags and headed off to three cities in Laos – Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng, and Vientiane – and to Bangkok, Thailand. The main goal of this fieldwork was to collect data on land-use across cities in Southeast Asia. This work will support...
The term ‘sustainability’ has become synonymous with environmentalism in popular culture. It is often used to refer to climate change mitigation and adaptation; the ‘reduce, reuse, and recycle’ movement; cycling to work; vegetarianism; and so on. Within academic...
In the past year, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the air quality emergency in Delhi, India have brought the inability of some cities to provide a healthy environment for their residents into sharper focus. However, as these crises unfolded, wealthy residents...
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