PA063
Urban Sustainability at Multiple Scales: Convergence toward What?
Session ID#: 82591
Session Description:
In January 2018, the Sustainable Urban Systems Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee for Environmental Research & Education delivered a report to the National Science Foundation entitled âSustainable Urban Systems: Articulating a Long-Term Convergence Research Agendaâ. The report identifies key aspects of âConvergence SUS Scienceâ: (1) new data and methods to address how interacting dynamics across multiple scales impact sustainability outcomes; (2) approaches to characterize the trade-offs, co-benefits, and externalities emerging from the urban systems nexus; (3) developing and testing theories of change for diverse urban systems; (4) developing a generalized theory to embrace urban areas of different sizes and contexts; (5) modeling/projecting urban system dynamics; and (6) developing the science of knowledge co-production to facilitate engagement across key actors in urban systems. This session invites multiple perspectives on and diverse examples of SUS science.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0466 Modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Geoffrey M Henebry, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Convener: Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Primary Liaison: Geoffrey M Henebry, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Impact of urbanization on land-atmosphere heat fluxes. (554930)
David E Reed1, Cheyenne Lei2, William J Baule3, Gabriela Shirkey4, Jiquan Chen3 and Kevin Czajkowski5, (1)Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Geography, Environment and Spatial Science, East Lansing, MI, United States, (5)University of Toledo, Geography and Planning, Toledo, OH, United States
What Can Smaller Cities Show Us? Examining Recent and Projected Urban Dynamics from the Perspective of Urban Scaling Theory (605667)
Geoffrey M Henebry, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Cole Philip Krehbiel, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States
Urbanization from 1985 to 2100 and its impacts on urban heat islands in the Jing-Jin-Ji region of China (615098)
Yuyu Zhou, Iowa State University, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, Xuecao Li, Iowa State University, Dept. of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, IA, United States, Huidong Li, Iowa State University, Ames, United States and Sha Yu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Sustainability potential in Urbanization of weather forecast, air-quality prediction and climate scenarios for Prague – project URBI PRAGENSI (617205)
Tomas Halenka1, Michal Belda1, Peter Huszar2, Jan Karlicky2 and Tereza Novakova3, (1)Charles University, Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, 180, Czech Republic, (2)Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, (3)Charles University, Dept. of Atmospheric Physics, Prague, Czech Republic
A comparison of urban structure across global cities based on nighttime lights (618042)
Eleanor C Stokes1, Anthony Campbell2, Ranjay Man Shrestha3, Zhuosen Wang4, Miguel O Roman1 and Virginia L. Kalb1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI, United States, (3)George Mason University Fairfax, Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, Fairfax, VA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Green Infrastructure Cost/Benefit Assessment at Multiple Spatial Scales Across Urban Environments (632686)
Bardia Heidari Haratmeh, Southern Methodist University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dallas, TX, United States, Lorne N Leonard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, Arthur Schmidt, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Lawrence E Band, University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Barbara E Minsker, Univ Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
