by Ryan Thomas | May 4, 2017 | Data, Featured, Projects, The City Fix, Urbanization
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...
by Diego Manya Gutierrez | Jan 11, 2017 | Big data, Data, Urbanization
The United Nations Programme for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT) developed the City Prosperity Initiative (the “Initiative”) as a framework to evaluate urban sustainable development through a new metric, the City Prosperity Index (CPI). At the UN-Habitat III conference...
by Ryan Thomas | Oct 25, 2016 | Big data, Data, Presentations, UNFCCC, Urbanization
Last week, a group of over 45,000 attendees and representatives from 143 countries and 500 cities[1] participated in the adoption of the New Urban Agenda (the Agenda) at the UN-Habitat III conference in Quito. The Agenda includes a vision of sustainable urbanism,...
by Ryan Thomas | Oct 7, 2016 | Featured, Presentations, Sustainability, Urbanization
The Data Driven Environmental Solutions Group will be participating in the upcoming UN-Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador, from October 17-21. Below are some highlights of our activities there. Please follow along on social media @datadrivenyale with...
by Amy Weinfurter | Jun 1, 2016 | Data Visualization, UNFCCC, Urbanization
Above: Ryan in Tanzania, interviewing a village leader (left) about residents using solar-powered lighting in their homes. Ryan is an urban planning researcher with interests in sustainability and monitoring and evaluation. His education, work experience, and research...
by Carlin Rosengarten | Apr 3, 2016 | China, Energy, Featured, Uncategorized, Urbanization
This post originally appeared on Scientific American. Photo credit: Chinese coal-fired power planet Wikimedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 license This post was co-written and compiled by Angel Hsu, Andrew Moffat and Kaiyang Xu. China last week released its draft 13th Five-Year...
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