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An interactive web application that visualizes Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETS) data.
A report from the World Economic Forum's Global Commission on BiodiverCities to synthesize the latest research with practical solutions in the service of sustainable, inclusive and nature-positive urban development.
A concise and accessible synthesis of IPCC Working Group I material for urban policymakers.
This report highlights a collaborative efforts with multiple NYC agencies to co-develop six transformative scenarios for New York City’s climate resilience and adaptation to extreme events by 2100.
The Milwaukee Flood and Health Vulnerability Assessment (FHVA) is an assessment tool which identifies communities across Milwaukee where exposure to urban flooding and pre-existing health, housing and socioeconomic conditions intersect and create disproportionate vulnerabilities to the impacts caused by extreme flooding.
The Climate Ready Uptown Plan (CRUP) is a guide and map to help Northern Manhattan community members understand their individual risk to climate related disasters
The NYC Flood Vulnerability Index (FVI) assesses the distribution of vulnerability to flooding across NYC in order to guide flood resilience policies and programs. Vulnerability contains three components: exposure to a hazard, susceptibility to harm from the exposure, and capacity to recover.
Ocellus XR
Ocellus XR is a mixed reality application that leverages the Urban Systems Lab’s (USL) Data Visualization Platform to present users with unique interactive geospatial information of heat, flood risk and other climate indicators in New York City.
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Ekos: The Path to Resilience
Ekos: The Path to Resilience is a multi-player game exploring issues of urban resilience, social equity and green infrastructure. Ekos is the perfect game to engage your students, to play with friends or family, and to inspire conversation with your community about how cities can understand the interactions among social, ecological, and technological dimensions of cities to build resilience, address inequities, and adapt to climate change and other hazards.
Ocellus Data Visualization Platform
Ocellus is an interactive web application that visualizes Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETS) data designed and implemented initially for nine different cities within the Urban Resilience to Weather-related Extremes (UREx) Sustainability Research Network. It was conceived as a tool to produce knowledge, bridging the gap between quantitative social, ecological and infrastructure data, and the rich and layered qualitative insights compiled at local stakeholder future visioning workshops.
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USL work can be placed within 8 converging fields: Big Data & Artificial Intelligence, Community Engagement, Data Visualization & Design, Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice & Equity, Nature-Based Solutions, Urban Policy & Planning, and Urban Climate Resilience.
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GoGreenNext is an EU funded Horizon Europe project with the ambition of supporting cities and regions to achieve their climate targets by implementing novel nature-based approaches.
ClimateIQ is an AI driven, multi-hazard risk and vulnerability tool leveraging Machine Learning, Big Data, and multiple climate hazard model environments to reveal high resolution hotspots of overlapping climate risks in cities and urbanized regions.
An initiative to co-develop synthetic infrastructure models for Phoenix, New York City and Atlanta that will simulate critical failure in energy distribution systems and potential cascading impacts on other power, water, and transportation infrastructure during extreme events to optimize solutions, and improve reliability and robustness.
A NSF supported planning effort to develop a model for coproduction of knowledge and solutions to address climate risks in cities, with special attention to environmental justice concerns.
A research study on future climate change and its potential impacts to inform decision-making by the City of New York and assessment reports by the NYC Panel on Climate Change.
An to accelerate advances in convergent urban systems science capable of providing cities with the knowledge and methods for building integrated SETS resilience strategies to extreme events, supported by cutting-edge modeling, simulation, and visualization of infrastructure systems.
The Environmental Justice of Urban Flood Risk and Green Infrastructure Solutions project aims to better understand the environmental justice impacts of climate change related flooding on minority and low-income communities and assess social equity in green infrastructure planning for reducing urban flood risks.
The Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA) project links 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.
The objective of this NSF RAPID project is to integrate survey, social media, building infrastructure, energy demand and use, and social-demographic data with simulations of potential emerging weather-related extremes to examine interdependent social vulnerability to COVID-19 and weather in New York City (NYC).
Green Roofs in NYC
As of 2016, there were 60 acres of green roofs in New York City. The Urban Systems Lab has been working with students at the New School, partners at The Nature Conservancy, the Brooklyn Grange, the Green Roof Researchers Alliance and the NYC Audubon Society on developing a comprehensive map and understanding of green roof ecology in urban centers. Visit the links below to learn more.