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The Big Picture on Urban Fragility: Presentation at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions
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 allows for...
Study Finds Lower-income Neighborhoods Bear the Burden of Urban Heat
Cities pack a lot of heat. Increasing human activity and the clearing of land for infrastructure are quickly driving up their temperatures. This local phenomenon, known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect, is compounded by rising temperatures from global climate...
Beating the Heat: Save Lives by Being a Good Neighbour
Photo Credits: Marc-Olivier Jodoin on Unsplash. Originally posted on the Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness website. As Montréal cools down from a boiling weekend during which Environment Canada warned of humidex values reaching a high of 45 degrees, the...
Two events offer sneak peak at updates to the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index
The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI), which measures cities’ environmental performance at the neighborhood scale, will soon grow from 30 to more than 160 cities. Two upcoming events will preview these additions to the Index. Data-Driven Lab Research...
Unlocking data to track progress towards inclusive, sustainable cities
“I think data is power --- but, more importantly, data is latent power. To actually unlock it is a tricky exercise.” These comments, from UN Habitat’s Robert Kehew, helped kick off the launch of the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) on December 6 in...
Como las ciudades están fallando en ser inclusivas, y que pueden hacer al respecto
Article originally published by the World Economic Forum, and authored by Angel Hsu, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Yale-NUS College, and Kim Samuel, Founder, Samuel Centre for Social Connectedness. Translated into Spanish by Diego Manya. Las ciudades...
Press Release: Cities don’t share environmental benefits and burdens equally
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Across cities worldwide, poorer neighborhoods take on a disproportionate share of environmental burdens, according to a first-of-its-kind research tool. The Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI) finds that even in cities with strong...
The Global Surface UHI Explorer: An Interactive Map of Urban Heat
Brian Jeffery Beggerly on Flickr.com Urban areas are hot, and are getting hotter. The higher temperature in urban areas - the urban heat island (UHI) effect - is an emergent property of urbanization and a major research area in urban climatology. Most UHI studies are...
Health, Biking and Equity
The case for biking in fostering healthy behaviors and favoring equity in vulnerable settings - Montréal, Canada.Article written by Morgane Ollier and Genévieve Westgate.Introduction: Indices such as the Copenhagenize Bicycle Friendly Cities IndexSee...
Launch of the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index: December 6, 2018 in Katowice, Poland
Categories of environmental issues and indicators assessed in the Urban Environment and Social Inclusion Index (UESI). On the afternoon of December 6, 2018, in parallel with the COP-24 United Nations Climate Conference, Data-Driven Yale will convene an interactive...
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