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UPCOMING EVENTS & NEWS

The USL is excited to be co-leading The Nature-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) project, which links 26 networks in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, North and Latin America, and globally to enhance connectivity among the world's scholars and practitioners and improve the prospects for global urban sustainability. USL is working with partner Arizona State University on this 5 year project with $1 million in funding from the National Science Foundation. To learn more, click here.

USL is the recipient of a Kresge Foundation CREWS grant (Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems), securing $310k in funding over 2 years to advance solutions to climate-related flood and storm impacts on water systems across the US.

USL Fellows Veronica Olivotto and Pablo Herreros-Cantis are presenting at the Mapping (In)Justice Symposium at Fordham University November 7 – 9. Veronica will be sharing her work on flood risk and ecological justice in East Harlem, and Pablo will share research on ecosystem service mapping and distributive justice in NYC.

USL Director Timon McPhearson will be attending the Future Earth Urban Knowledge-Action Network meeting as Co-Chair this November at the Australian Academy of Science in Canberra. The event brings together early career researchers and practitioners (ECRPs) to share their work and network across disciplines associated with urban sustainability.

If you missed the Building a Resilient Future conference, or our event Resilient Futures: New Thinking on Climate Change, you can now watch an archived video of the conference and panel discussion.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Timon McPhearson, USL Director, is a co-author of “Networking urban science, policy and practice for sustainability” in the latest issue of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. (PDF)

USL Fellow Claudia Tomateo has a new essay, “Searching for a New Urban Paradigm” in the book City Design, Planning & Policy Innovations: The Case of Hermosillo.

USL Fellows Pablo Herreros-Cantis and Z Grabowski presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) Long-Term Ecological Research Program (pictured above). Pablo shared research on the distributional justice of NYC’s urban ecosystem services, and Z presented work on the spatial dimensions of equity related to the distribution of green infrastructure needs.

At this year’s State of Greenroofs Conference, USL Fellows Rositsa Ilieva and Pablo Herreros Cantis participated in a panel discussion moderated by Director Timon McPhearson on social equity and mapping the benefits of green roofs in NYC. The USL also debuted a new website, www.greenroofsnyc.com, which provides a comprehensive resource to inform residents, developers, business owners, and occupants about the benefits of green roofs.

Members of the USL attended the annual CREWS Convening (Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems) hosted by the Kresge Foundation in Richmond, VA this month. Over the next two years, the USL will be working on climate justice focused projects targeting urban green infrastructure for stormwater resiliency in partnership with municipalities across the US.

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