by Amy Weinfurter | Oct 7, 2019 | China
Data has the potential to transform China’s environmental management. While its environmental data still sparks scrutiny, the country is in the midst of a turn towards more comprehensive monitoring, in the service of increasingly ambitious environmental goals. The...
by Angel Hsu | Sep 12, 2019 | Urban Index, Urbanization
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...
by Xiyao Fu | Aug 13, 2019 | China, Energy
On June 22, I joined a team of energy experts on a field trip to Ruicheng county in China’s Shanxi province. Shanxi is known as “the sea of coal,” and is responsible for almost a quarter of China’s total coal output. However, officials and experts in this small county...
by Damon Lim | Aug 9, 2019 | Field work, Urbanization
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...
by Angel Hsu | Aug 7, 2019 | China
Photo of Bangkok’s skytrain, from Shutterstock by Pakorn Amonstian. Urban growth is rapidly advancing in Southeast Asia, and this trend will have profound environmental impacts on the region and the world in the coming decades. Nearly half of the world’s urban...
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