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Article October 24, 2024 Faculty Spotlight: Allison Lassiter Penn IUR Faculty Fellow Allison Lassiter is adapting drinking water systems to climate change. She tells Penn IUR about a tool her lab is developing, SaltCast, and her role in serving on Penn’s delegation to the UNFCCC Conference of Parties. Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow in Urban Leadership Griffin Pitt

Climate Change & Resilience

Podcasts April 25, 2024 Special Briefing: America's $900 Billion Water Crisis While the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $50 billion to upgrade America’s drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems, much more will be needed to address the nation’s water infrastructure needs amid a changing climate and shifts in population. Susan Wachter William Glasgall Howard Neukrug Reese Tisdale Nicole Lick Doug Evanson William W. Bradley State & Local Finance

Apr 25 2024 Past Event Special Briefing: America's $900 Billion Water Crisis State & Local Finance

Affiliated PhD Student Rachel Bondra

Fellow in the Initiative in the History of the Built Environment Doctoral Student in City and Regional Planning

Urban Development

Affiliated PhD Student Benjamin (Benji) Smith

PhD Candidate in Wharton's Applied Economics Program

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Article September 19, 2022 Penn IUR Faculty Fellows’ Summer Research Advances Urban Water Management How to sustainably manage urban water? That question took Penn IUR Faculty Fellows to cities like Pittsburgh, where improving water quality and access are critical issues; to the Netherlands, where 93 percent of the population lives in urban areas and all are at risk of rising seas; and to Malawi, where innovative methods of measuring climate adaptation may one day be applied to cities around the world. Climate Change & Resilience

Publication May 26, 2022 Rethinking the Heavy Hand of Flood Prevention in Informal Settlements: An Investigation of Retreat-Related Practices in the Philippines Researchers and decision-makers increasingly favor managed retreat as an adaptation to address urban floods exacerbated by climate impacts. In the informal settlements of the Global South, national governments, development banks, and other knowledge brokers choose relocation over slum upgrading in their retreat-related activities. They disproportionately relocate informal settlers—who lack legal land tenure— despite the fact that the risk profiles of many places is similar to those that the UN and other global bodies recommend in-situ climate-sensitive upgrade projects. Samuel Geldin Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Matthijs Bouw

Professor of Practice in Landscape Architecture / Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design

Climate Change & Resilience

Sep 23 2021 Past Event Special Briefing on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Clean Water, Better Broadband, Resilience, and Equity Climate Change & Resilience

Research Paper July 13, 2021 5th Guangzhou Award Report on Local Implementation of SDGs Climate Change & Resilience Housing + 1

Faculty Fellow Allison Lassiter

Assistant Professor

Climate Change & Resilience

Faculty Fellow Simon Richter

Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German Department Chair, Germanic Languages and Literatures

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Aromar Revi

Director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) Co-Chair, UN SDSN

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Fellow Angela Glover Blackwell

Founder in Residence, PolicyLink Host, Reimagining Democracy for a Good Life podcast and the Radical Imagination podcast Professor of Practice at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

Faculty Fellow Howard Neukrug

Professor of Practice, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania

Climate Change & Resilience

Scholar Chunxia Yang

Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Senior Member of the Chinese Architecture Society Director of the Urban Design Branch of the Chinese Architecture Society Member of the Urban Design and Planning Professional Committee of Shanghai Architecture Society, Shanghai Pujiang Talent

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 1

Fellow Seung Ah Byun

Executive Director of the Chester County Water Resources Authority

Climate Change & Resilience

Scholar Marina Peterson

Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Fellow Sheela Patel

Director, Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) Ambassador to the race to resilience

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 3

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