Architecture & Urban Planning

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Monika Shankar: Unearthing the role of soils in urban climate resilience planning

Urban soils are often overlooked in climate resilience planning and policy. In their October 2024 Nature comment article, Shankar and co-authors advocate for a broader framing of urban soils within an equity-centred social ecological...
November 26, 2024
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Grove reviews how environmental justice and urban ecology interact

The review paper asks how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project.
August 26, 2024
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Sanjana Paul

2024 Fellow
Sanjana is an engineer and environmental educator whose research focuses on process innovation and technical/policy boundaries of renewable energy systems and the electric grid.
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Jazz Henry

2024 Fellow
Jazz's studies are concentrated in sustainability and design/development. He has worked on issues such as extreme heat, air quality, community engagement and schoolyard greening.
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Nicole Wong

2024 Fellow
Nicole explores the intersection of affordable housing and climate equity, including building energy retrofit strategies that can reduce energy burden, prevent displacement, and target climate investments to low-income communities of color.
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Chelsea Kirk

2024 Fellow
Chelsea is driven by the belief that we cannot solve our climate crisis by exacerbating our housing crisis. Her work empowers tenants in building decarbonization efforts, ensuring they benefit from climate initiatives.
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Switzer Fellows present at 2024 AAG conference

Several Switzer Fellows are presenting at the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting taking place in Honolulu Hawai’i from April 16-20, 2024. Fellows’ presentations are on an array of diverse topics: climate...
April 17, 2024
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Building green is good business

“Global climate goals will not be met without significant reductions in emissions related to the construction and operation of buildings,” Susan writes. “Together, development finance institutions, governments and the private sector can bring to light a new way of building housing and infrastructure following a more sustainable, climate-friendly path than in the past.”
February 21, 2024
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Matsuoka co-edits Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice book

Martha Matsuoka’s new, open-access book shows how community-engaged research contributes to environmental justice by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers’ relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit.
January 18, 2024
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Urban Biodiversity and Equity book features Switzer Fellow contributors

J. Morgan Grove, Nicole Heller, Sarah Reed and Christine Wilkinson contributed to this text advancing justice-centered biodiversity conservation in cities and demonstrating the necessity of, and tools for, simultaneously addressing social inequities and biodiversity conservation.
January 18, 2024