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ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019 Benjamin Converse Assoc. Prof. Batten & PSYCH Gabrielle Adams Asst. Prof. Batten Andres Clarens Assoc. Prof. SEAS Assoc. Dir. ERI Leidy Klotz Assoc. Prof. SEAS, ARCH, Darden Co-Dir. Convergent BehSci Initiative Maura Austin Ph.D. Student, Psychology Jay Furhman Ph.D. Student, SEAS Patrick Hancock Ph.D. Student, SEAS Emma White BA. Student PSYCH ERI Grad Fellowship Christopher Neale Postdoc, Center Design & Health, Batten Collab of CoLabs Hannah Davis BA. Student Batten USOAR, Double Hoo Our Team (so far…) Bethany Gordon Ph.D. Student, SEAS NSF GRFP Katelyn Stenger Ph.D. Student, SEAS NSF GRFP Sophie Wong BA. Student, Env. Sci.

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ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Benjamin ConverseAssoc. Prof. Batten & PSYCH

Gabrielle AdamsAsst. Prof. Batten

Andres ClarensAssoc. Prof. SEAS

Assoc. Dir. ERI

Leidy KlotzAssoc. Prof. SEAS, ARCH, Darden

Co-Dir. Convergent BehSci Initiative

Maura AustinPh.D. Student, Psychology

Jay FurhmanPh.D. Student, SEAS

Patrick HancockPh.D. Student, SEAS

Emma WhiteBA. Student PSYCH

ERI Grad Fellowship

Christopher NealePostdoc, Center Design & Health,

Batten

Collab of CoLabs

Hannah DavisBA. Student Batten

USOAR, Double Hoo

Our Team (so far…)Bethany Gordon

Ph.D. Student, SEASNSF GRFP Katelyn Stenger

Ph.D. Student, SEASNSF GRFP

Sophie WongBA. Student, Env. Sci.

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

If Humans Design the Planet…

“… climate engineering would take anthropogenic influence on the earth to a whole new level. It would mean intentionally assuming responsibility for the very skies under which all life on earth lives, an endeavor with repercussions impacting everyone—and everything—on the planet.” (Preston, 2012, p.1)

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Sample Behavioral Experiment

The “moral hazard” (aka “licensing”) question:

How does awareness of climate engineering affect commitment to mitigation, adaptation, pro-environmental behavior?

Liberal ----- Conservative

Pro-Enviro. Behavior

(costly bike choices)

Experimental Design

N = 243 online respondents

IV = Randomly assigned to learn about a Carbon Dioxide Removal tech company (or tech company)

DV = Series of real “bike vs. car” choices more bike choices = slower experiment

CDR Awareness

Control

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Challenges

#1

#2

Understanding Climate Vulnerability to Foster Community

Resilience in Urban East Africa

Team: Ellen Bassett, Becca Dillingham, Deborah Lawrence, Victoria Shen

now future

365 days/yr

10 days/yr

More extreme heat days

2010 2085

Kisumu

Mombasa

Business as usual warming (RCP 8.5)

Increased exposure to extreme heat

person days per year > 9 million

2010 2085

4.5 million

Kisumu

Mombassa

Lack of urban infrastructure heightens risk

Approach / Activities

• Objective: Long Term Collaboration to produce policy actionable research to assist with adaptation

• Activities:• Baseline evaluation of climate

vulnerability and projected impacts for 3 Kenyan Cities. Mombasa, Kisumu, and Garissa (maybe Marsabit)

• Cities in 15 cities survey• Stratified by size, economic base,

geographic location, ethnicity, and agro-ecological zone

• Research Memoranda of Understanding with Kenyan Universities as Counterparts.

• Research Plan/Agenda: • Formulate a shared research plan, including

opportunities for post-doctoral research and faculty exchanges with partner institutions.

Challenges and Opportunities• Challenge

• Working on the other side of the planet – travel, busy schedules, competing priorities, cross-cultural communication

• Opportunities• Shared passion and commitment

to importance of topic• Need for localized, policy

relevant research in East Africa related to climate change and urban resilience

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Urban air pollution, colonial policies, and theirlegacies on the poor in Dakar, Senegal

Sally Pusede Environmental SciencesChristina MobleyHistory Jeanine BraithwaiteBatten Sheila CraneArchitectureAngelique Demetillo, Kamwoo Lee, Gabrielle Posner, Grace Wood, Cameron Haddad, Dallas Tatman

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Urban air pollution, colonial policies, and theirlegacies on the poor in Dakar, Senegal

We will explore two linked hypotheses: (1) European colonial policies of racial segregation motivated urban development projects that created the structures and institutions driving current-day African air pollution, and (2) burdens of African air pollution are greater for the urban poor.

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

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ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Urban air pollution, colonial policies, and theirlegacies on the poor in Dakar, Senegal

French colonial urban planning

Urban air pollution distribution and sources Impacts on Dakar’s poor

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Adaptive Management of Urban Infrastructure for Addressing Recurrent

Flooding Challenges in Coastal Cities

Jon Goodall, Water Resources EngineeringDonna Chen, Transportation Engineering

Kamin Whitehouse, Computer ScienceMichael Gorman, Science, Technology, and Society

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Norfolk, Virginia: “Coastal City of the Future”

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Data Models

Decision Support

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Challenges and Opportunities

• Challenges• Language/Terminology/Methods• Differences in incentivized research outputs• Commitment to interdisciplinary research

• Opportunities• Funding • Address difficult and important problems• Alignment with industry

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Engendering Local Stewardship through Citizen Science

at Friendship CourtTeam included:

Barbara Brown Wilson (Planning)Andrew Mondschein (Planning)

Nancy Deutsch (Education)Tanya Denckla Cobb (IEN)

Teresa Culver (Engineering)Liz Ogbu (Studio O)

Chris Gist (Scholars Lab)Piedmont Housing Alliance

Youth Leaders at Friendship Court

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Long-term Goal:Conduct transdisciplinary research with underserved local youth on water resources, air quality, connectivity, and on-site food production to forward knowledge of the methods

available for democratic data collection on resilience in cities, but also contribute to the literature on ecological

stewardship and governance in vulnerable communities.

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

StructuralYouth on advisory boardProposed changes to existing courtyards

Youth-LevelComing to terms with multiple points of viewCareer & educational goalsSkills

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

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DR. GAURAV GIRIAssistant Professor, Department of Chemical EngineeringProfile

DR. BALA MULLOTHAssistant Professor, Frank Batton School of Leadership and Public PolicyProfile

Dr. RAJESH BALKRISHNANProfessor of Public HealthSciences, School of MedicineProfile

Cost-effective air filters for developing countries and studying population response to air pollution

LUKE HUELSENBECKPhD Student, Department of Chemical EngineeringProfile

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

The Problem: Air Pollution Is the New Tobacco

9 out of 10people worldwide breathe polluted air

29%of deaths due to air pollution are fromLung Cancer

24%of deaths due to air pollution are from Stroke

25%of deaths due to air pollution are from Heart Disease

7 MillionDeaths per year aredue to air pollution

Source: http://www.who.int/airpollution/en/

How do populations interact with air pollution?

What public health questions are most pertinent?

What do they want as a solution?

What solutions are tractable for developing countries?

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Prototype: MOF coated fabric

Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as a Solution

N95 Mask level Effectivity in lab Flexibility in fabric choice

Made on Cotton, Wool, Bamboo, Hemp, Cellulose

Multiple levels of protection possibleParticle FiltrationChemical FiltrationBiological Protection

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Working in Interdisciplinary Teams

Creating and administering public survey takes time and work

Have initial data

Figuring out what are the important questions to ask

Need to learn about different fields

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Lisa Peterson, ESE Bill Epling, ChE Mark White, Comm

Gokul Iyer, PNNL Matthew Binsted Anand Rao, IITB

Udayan Singh, ESE Fangwei Cheng, ESE

ASSESSING THE

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF

RESILIENT

ENERGY

SYSTEMS

Team ACRES

UVA FACULTY

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS

GRADUATE STUDENTS

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

National/GlobalPreferential investments

Electricity storage

Efficiency

Trade

Resource inventory

Knowledge transfer

Regional/GridReserve margins

Populations shifts

Short-term stressors

Diversity-energy mix

Sub-national trade

Net metering

PlantWater

withdrawals Siting Protective infrastructure

Fuel flexibility

Characterizing resilient energy systems on various scales

Because of multiple-scales involved, we can readily leverage the capabilities of integrated assessment models and augment them with our own technoeconomic models

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Resilience-sustainability interactions?

⬅ Historical magnitude of outages (MWh)Mapped from data in Mukherjee et al (2018)

⬅ Evolving diversity in generation (SWI)Authors’ estimates based on US MCS

Aggressive mid-century climate transitions may reduce vulnerabilities in generation

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Extending Resilience Definitions to Negative Emissions

Ongoing work: Incorporating regional resilience features into integrated assessment models Evaluating technologies’ flexibility to system changes Better understanding of economic resilience: carbon lock-in and stranded assets

Developing redundancy in the carbon removal sphere as wellSingh, Cheng, Colosi (under review)

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Teresa CulverEnvironmental and Water

Resources Engineering, SEASPeter Debaere

Global Economics and Markets, Darden

Jay ShimshackPublic Policy and Economics,

Batten SchoolArthur Small

Resource Economics, ESE

Surface Water Quality in the US: Data, Methods, and Causes

What drives national and regional changes in water quality in the US?

More then $1 trillion have been spent on water quality management in the US.

Do the benefits justify the costs?

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What questions can reasonably be answered with this data?

What are the geographic and temporal characteristics of the data?

What factors impact when and where data is collected?

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What factors (social, economic, regulatory, scientific) have driven positive changes in water quality?

What guidance can we give for supporting water quality protection and improvements in the future?

Interdisciplinary challenges:

Can take a little longer to understand everyone’s jargon and view points

Different tools preferred in different disciplines

Advantage of bringing in broader perspectives and cross-disciplinary literature makes up for that.

Biggest challenge we have had is selection of student research assistants who are invested in the cross-disciplinary work and who we are also invested in their progress.

Once we understand the challenges and biases in the data we will explore:

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

From Zero to Hero?:A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Negative Emissions Technologies

Scott Doney1, Jay Fuhrman1, Haewon McJeon2, Bill Shobe1, Andres Clarens1

1. University of Virginia2. Joint Global Change Research Institute, University of Maryland/PNNL

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Growing reliance on NETs to meet warming goals

We can’t limit warming to 2ºC without NETs

All models assume NETs will come from BECCS and Afforestation

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

NETs deployment scenarios have unrealistic elements

Current models of technological innovation may not be appropriate for these approaches

NETs present a number of important tradeoffs between developed and developing nations in terms of food, energy, and water

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

An interdisciplinary approach to studying NETs

Presented by Kimalee Dickerson, PhD, JD

Water Quality Project

◉ What is in your drinking water?

Have you ever wondered….

◉ How does the quality of your water differ from others in your area?○ Municipal v. Private○ By race/ethnicity

Project Partners

- Law- Public

health- Education- Architectur

e- Environme

nt

- Rural health

- Water quality

Albemarle-Buckingham-Fluvanna- Nelson Counties- Health

- Local politics

- Farming- Religion

1. Planning and Intern Hiring and Training

2. Participant Recruitment

3. Data Collection and Analysis

Questions?

Kimalee Dickerson [email protected] Dukes [email protected] Matthew [email protected]

Thank you!

Ecosystem service evaluation and market development to improve regional freshwater quality

Larry Band, ESE/EVSCMike Pace, EVSCPeter Debaere, Darden

Virginia Water Quality Trading

• Create a market to sell pollution credits to offset development, reduce nutrient loading to streams, water bodies, Chesapeake Bay

• Credits for converting agricultural land to forest – credits typically developed by mitigation banks, denominated in lbs/yr

• Restrict trades within specified “watershed distance”

Project Goals:

• Build system to evaluate current state and vulnerability of water bodies to threshold water quality degradation

• Value and map current pollutant sources and sinks over watershed area (where, when, how much), potential for pollutant mitigation to local water bodies and Chesapeake Bay by land use conversion - water quality trades (WQT)• What other ecosystem services can be “stacked”

• Evaluate how improved information on water body vulnerability, effectiveness of potential land use conversions to mitigate loading, other benefits, can stimulate WQT

Approach and preliminary resultsPLij

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RFi risk of failure for Iake iLvi vulnerability of lake iPLij pollutant load from patch j upstream of lake iαij attenuation of PLij between patch j and lake irij runoff from from patch j upstream of lake iβij evapotranspiration between patch j and lake iCli climate input to lake i (energy, wind, rain, …)

Estimate eutrophication state of each lake and vulnerability to additional inputs of water, nutrients

Estimate nutrient and runoff sources and sinks over full watershed area draining to each water body

Estimate change in nutrient and runoff due to land conversion over all watershed locations (patches)

Value land conversion relative to lake state and reduction in lake state failure

Challenges to interdisciplinary research

• Common or interacting questions of interest to each participant

• Terrestrial – limnologic systems: • Missing interface (e.g. stream nutrient spiraling), in development

• Paradigm differences between biophysical methods and market economics• Space/time scale mismatch

• trading areas order of magnitude(s) larger than example given

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

A Coupled Human–Natural Capital Lab for Resilient Coastal Futures

Principal Investigator: Jennifer Roe (School of Architecture)

Co-Investigators: Matt Reidenbach (Environmental Sciences)

Ben Converse (Social Psychology)

Tanya Denckla Cobb (Institute of Environmental Negotiation)

Jon Goodall (Systems Engineering and Environment)

Leidy Klotz (Systems Engineering and Environment)

Post-Doc: Christopher Neale (Batten School)

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

To build a pathway that couples natural and human-social capital approaches to building healthy and resilient coastal futures.

Our Objective

This objective is studied through urban coastal communities that face flooding challenges associated with climate change and sea level rise.

Hampton, Virginia

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Our Approach• To date, the response to climate change

and sea level rise has focused on maintaining the status quo; rebuilding and reinforcing existing infrastructure

• Integration of natural systems like wetlands, coastal parks, and oyster reefs allows coastal communities to better manage costs and improve health and wellbeing.

• For these efforts to gain public support, citizens must have a better understanding and appreciation of the both the physical and social resiliency that green infrastructure can provide.

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Challenges and OpportunitiesSolutions need engagement between the physical sciences (engineers, architects, environmental scientists), social sciences (social & environmental psychology, public engagement), and community.

Example of geospatial datasets available for coastal regions

• Bratman et al. (2019), Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective, Science Advances, 24 Jul 2019: Vol. 5, no. 7

• Roe et al. (2019), The restorative health benefits of a tactical urban intervention: An urban waterfront study. Frontiers in Built Environment, 5, 71.

From data to solutions

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

THE RAFTResilience Adaptation Feasibility Tool

Catalyzing Meaningful Resilience Action

at theLocal Level

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

THE RAFT GOAL & PROCESSTo help Virginia’s coastal localities

improve resilience to flooding and other coastal storm hazards

while remaining economically and socially viable.

1. SCORECARD – Resilience Assessment

2. COMMUNITY WORKSHOP –Resilience Action Checklist

3. IMPLEMENTATION –Ongoing Assistance 1 Year

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

THE RAFT PROGRESS & FINDINGS• Neighbors Compare, Want To Share

• Individual Checklists/ Regional Needs

• Monthly Locality Team Check-ins

• Community-wide Discussions Bring Long-term Value

• New Collaborations Across Silos

• Multiple Universities Brings “Heft”

• Durable Relationships With Universities Valued And Desired

2017-18: 3 Pilot Localities in 3 Coastal PDCs

2018-19: EASTERN SHORE – 7 Localities

NEXT - 2019-20: NORTHERN NECK – 8 Localities

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES• WEEKLY CORE

TEAM COORDINATION

• SELECTION OF PEOPLE FOR LOCALITY IMPLEMENTATION TEAMS

• RESILIENCE ACTION CHECKLIST ITEMS

• EXPANDING NETWORK OF SUPPORT for LOCALITIES

• IDENTIFYING & ELEVATING REGIONAL NEEDS TO STATE LEVEL

• DISCUSSION OF COASTAL HAZARD RESILIENCE OPENS BROADER RESILIENCE CONVERSATION

The SIDS Climate Resilience Team:(SIDS - Small Island Developing States)Names Disciplines

Etienne, Bevin, co-PI McIntire - Commerce

Lerdau, Manuel, co-PI Envtl Science

Louis, Garrick, co-PI (Project Leader) Engineering

Toscano, Laura, project coordinator Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy

Olesen, Alexander, Industry partner Babylon Micro-Farms, co-founder & CEO

Boyang Lu, Sadegh Eghdami, GRAs Engineering

Annie Hatcher, Stephen Jung, Holden Keegan, Todd LeHenry Quach, Charles Ward, Justin Weinberg

Capstone Students – Engineering Undergrad

Emma Tillitski, Jasmyn Noel; undergrad researchers Global Development, Environmental Science

Tanya Denckla-Cobb, Paul Friedman, Anna Maria Siega-Riz – affiliated faculty

ARCH, Politics, Medicine

10 students from the Dominica Lab8/22/19 Climate REsilience in SIDS: Dominica Case 13

Topic & Importance• Using hydroponics to grow crops for food & livelihood in SIDS

• Small Island Developing States – 57 with population of 65 million• Food supply threatened by effects of climate change

• Natural disasters like hurricanes – more frequent & intense• Changing water availability, Reduced soil quality (salinity, soil moisture)

• Many SIDS already low and lower-middle income countries• Many highly dependent on food imports (disrupted by disasters)

• Hydroponics can quickly restore fresh produce• Household consumption and sale to hotels

• 2017 Hurricane Maria devasted agriculture sector in Dominica• Representative case study for SIDS

• Potential applications to urban food deserts and novel “floating farms”

8/22/19 Climate REsilience in SIDS: Dominica Case 14

Approach/Key Findings• Babylon Micro-Farms Inc. - Charlottesville VA company.

• Builds Intelligent Hydroponic Systems• Targets commercial establishments and high-end residential users• NSF SBIR Grant

• Modify “Fold-out Farm” (FoF) adapted for humanitarian use• Build and take to Dominica for proof of concept test• Compare performance of unit in Ch’ville• ‘Optimize’ FoF productivity

• Matter, energy, labor inputs, nutrient recovery, effluent recirculation• Crop types, yield, produce quality

• Indoor use, outdoor use, use in greenhouse

• Senior Capstone Project. “Dominica Lab” Summer Course

8/22/19 Climate REsilience in SIDS: Dominica Case 15

Interdisciplinary Teams: Challenges & Opportunities

Some Opportunities1. Research needs diverse expertise

• Engineering, natural science, social science, public health/nutrition,…

2. Different insights sparks innovation• NSF SBIR Grant to BMF• VentureWell proposal for floating farm

3. More competitive proposals• NSF: INFEWS.• USAID: Global Development Lab

Key Challenges1. Coordination

• Who’s responsible for what?• Who is supervising which students?

2. Prioritization• Shared vision, different priorities

3. Scholarship• What to write? Where to publish? Where to

seek funding? 4. Skills & style

• Builders, bench labs, modelers, field workers

8/22/19 Climate REsilience in SIDS: Dominica Case 16

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Climate change impacts on coral reefs: Linkages between the warming ocean and

coral bleaching

Principal Investigators: Matt Reidenbach (Environmental Sciences)Max Castorani (Environmental Sciences)

Dan Quinn (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

Students: Craig Wendelken (Environmental Sciences)

Arianna Asquinni (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering)

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Our Objective

To quantify how variations in coral topography alters heat flux from the coral surface, and how changing ocean water temperatures and flow patterns impact reef-scale coral bleaching.

Individual to reef scale bleaching

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Our ApproachAt the coral scale: Determine how coral morphology and flow dynamics impact heat transfer.

At the reef scale: Map coral bleaching hotspots and correlate how variability in ocean heat and flow patterns impact bleaching.

13.5 cm

CT scanned corals

Heat flux

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Challenges and Opportunities

Unidirectional Oscillatory

Potential causes of coral bleaching:• warming ocean temperatures• ocean acidification• sedimentation• disease

• Engineers and ecologists often work at very different spatial and temporal scales

• Climate dynamics, ocean temperatures, and heat transfer can be determined through physics, but coral health is impacted by a variety of physical, chemical, and biological factors.

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Norfolk Coastal Resilience Study

UVA research team:Phoebe Crisman, Architecture/Global Studies, [email protected] White, Commerce, [email protected] Bassett, Urban & Environmental Planning, [email protected]

Community partners:Joe Rieger, Elizabeth River Project, Deputy Director of Restoration, Skip Stiles, Wetlands WatchDenise Thompson and Justin Schaffer, City of Norfolk, Environmental Protection Programs + Public Works

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

RESEARCH TOPIC:

• policy, economic & design research to foster resilient and healthy coastal cities in Virginia

• collaborative research with government and community partners

• Norfolk’s Harbor Park district as a test case for future waterfront mitigation efforts

• historical research on Norfolk’s 1960’s urban renewal policy and its present-day impacts

• relationship between property value & flood risk via longitudinal study in diverse communities

WHY IT’S IMPORTANT:

• sea level rise is urgent and already affecting coastal cities in Virginia and globally

•. resiliency encompasses the physical, social & economic consequences of climate change

• opportunity to examine both local, small-scale effects as well as larger, regional effects

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RESEARCHMETHODS+ RESULTS

• resilient design strategies for Harbor Park

• linkages between 1960’s urban renewal+ current flooding patterns in Norfolk

• collaborated with 3 communitiesto create Resilience Plans (2017-19)

• examined economic impact of location in a flood plain on property values in 2 neighborhoods

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WORKING IN INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS

challenges:

• thinking about resilience–much less achieving it–is like peeling an onion… there seems to always be another layer that needs to be looked at… and sometimes, there are tears

• different research methods often complicates collaboration

• community expectations may differ from UVA research goals

• moving from theory to practice can be difficult for those more accustomed to working within the academy – but it’s good (and necessary) that our thinking be influenced by “real world realities”

opportunities:

• three heads are definitely better than one

• different conversations yield different insights—particularly with respect to identifying leverage points ti achieve change

• collaborative teams have greater success in securing external research funding

• providing multi-faceted sustainability expertise to disadvantaged communities

• achieving real, on-the-ground results in Virginia - while establishing translatable models

* place-based research offers/requires a “deeper dive” into causes and effects, which helps provide context for results from other locations

The Geopolitics of Sustainability and Smart City Construction in US-China Relations

Sean Ferguson, Engineering & SocietyBrantly Womack, Political Science

Tsai-hsuan Sharon Ku, Engineering & Society Zhe Dong, RA, School of Architecture

Zihao Zhang, RA, School of Architecture

Hangzhou

Taichung

• How is “smart city” imagined, constructed and assessed across geopolitical regions?

• What interdisciplinary approach can we develop to capture the local/global complexity?

Shenzhen

The Dialectic of Urban Sustainability

Shenzhen and Havana

City Lung, APP & OpenData

Hangzhou/China Taichung/Taiwan

Innovation? Openness?

Governance?Sustainability?

Human right?

Challenges and 1st year outcomes

• Multi-sited approach unpacks the invisible socio-political conditions, local histories and ongoing tensions between Global North & South in Smart City discourse.

• Interdisciplinary and international collaborations: the former sometimes is harder than the latter.

• 2 RA from School of Architecture are hired by 3C. In the coming year. We will add 1 PhD student from urban planning and 1 undergraduate from anthropology to form the interdisciplinary team

• Ongoing collaborations with ISO TC268 Smart & Sustainable Communities; China Jiliang University, Tsing Hua University in China, and Feng Cha University in Taiwan: US-China Global Classroom on Smart City Design with Tsinghua University

• Global Ethics and Smart Cities Working Groups under UVA Belt & Road Assessment Projects: Seminar Series 2019-2020

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

Arctic CoLabHoward EpsteinProfessorEnvironmental Sciences

Leena ChoAssistant ProfessorLandscape ArchitectureCo-Director of Arctic Design Group

Matthew JullAssociate ProfessorArchitectureCo-Director of Arctic Design Group

Arsalan HeydarianAssistant ProfessorSchool of Engineering

Matthew BurtnerProfessorMusicFounder and Director of EcoSono

Claire G. GriffinPostdoctoral ResearcherEnvironmental Sciences

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planetNavigating the New Arctic: The Changing Natural-Built-Human Landscape of Arctic Communities

ERI Environmental Futures Forum August 22, 2019

ERI-funded projectsArctic Dialogues at UVA

July 2019 field work in Utqiagvik, AK: Nutrient enrichment of ponds near urban development

South of town In town

Martha RaynoldsResearch ScientistUniversity of Alaska FairbanksArctic landscapes: Direct and indirect changes caused by human activities

Joe CorriveauDirectorUS Army CRRELRed, white, and blue Arctic

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Externally-funded projectsNSF, NASA

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Bridging Science, Art, and Community in the New Arctic

September 23rd-25th, 2019Registration on the Environmental Resilience Institute Website

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