Geo-Computational Approaches for Urban Environmental Challenges and Community Resilience

Session ID#: 280129

Session Description:
Cities concentrate environmental exposures, infrastructure vulnerabilities, and social inequalities, making them key sites for understanding and strengthening climate resilience. Rapid advances in geospatial computation, including geospatial AI, machine learning, remote sensing, street-view imagery, spatial statistics, and multi-source data fusion, are transforming how urban environments can be observed, modeled, and evaluated at policy-relevant scales. This session invites contributions using geo-computational approaches to examine urban environmental challenges and support more resilient communities. We welcome studies that develop or apply spatially explicit, high-resolution, and data-driven methods to address urban heat and heat mitigation, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions, flooding and extreme weather, air quality and exposure, energy vulnerability and climate resilience, infrastructure risk, and spatial inequalities in environmental conditions and adaptive capacity. We also encourage work on new urban datasets, benchmarking and validation, interpretable and hybrid machine learning frameworks, and computational tools that connect environmental observations with planning, governance, and community resilience.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4332 Disaster resilience [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6620 Science policy [POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES]
Primary Convener:  Ying Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, School of Humanities and Social Science, Shenzhen, China
Conveners:  Dr. Liyin He1, Angel Hsu2, Nicole Lambrou3 and Xijing Li3, (1)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States(2)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Data-Driven EnviroLab, Chapel Hill, United States(3)California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Urban and Regional Planning, Pomona, United States
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