Rahul Sharma and Professor Gabe Chan Provide Commentary for Nature Energy

Read University of Minnesota PhD Rahul Sharma and Professor Gabe Chan’s invited commentary in Nature Energy, “Energy poverty: Electrification and well-being.” The commentary is based on a paper Sharma and Chan reviewed for the journal, and engages with questions on how rural energy poverty is measured, and which measures are better suited for policy decisions.

Sara Meerow and Josh Newell Publish on Spatial Planning for Green Infrastructure in Detroit

SRN student Sara Meerow and faculty member Josh Newell, both at the University of Michigan, developed a Green Infrastructure Spatial Planning (GISP) model to maximize the ecosystem services of green infrastructure. They applied this stakeholder-driven model to Detroit to identify priority areas across the city where multiple environmental, health, wealth, and livability benefits of green infrastructure are needed most, and compared these results with the locations of current projects.

The full article, Spatial planning for multifunctional green infrastructure: Growing resilience in Detroit is published in Landscape and Urban Planning and available here.

Masters and PhD graduate assistantships are available to study sustainable and healthy cities.

Sustainable Healthy Cities is a unique research network of universities, cities, governments, NGOs, and industry partners who are co-developing the science and practical knowledge that enables urban infrastructure transformation toward environmentally sustainable, healthy, and livable cities. We focus on infrastructure design as well as behavioral and policy levers to advance distributed infrastructure solutions to benefit people, cities, and the environment.

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The eight schools and key contacts are:

• Frank Douma at The University of Minnesota (douma002@umn.edu)
• Patricia Culligan at Columbia University (culligan@civil.columbia.edu)
• Armistead Russell at Georgia Tech (ted.russell@ce.gatech.edu)
• Dan Zimmerle at Colorado State University (Dan.Zimmerle@colostate.edu)
• Bhavik Bakshi at Ohio State University (bakshi.2@osu.edu)
• Richard Feiock at Florida State University (rfeiock@fsu.edu)
• Kara Kockelman at The University of Texas (kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu)
• Joshua Newell at The University of Michigan (jpnewell@umich.edu)

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