Week 13

Sustainability / Inequality

This week, we will discuss how to study sustainability and inequality in urban areas. We will focus on the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainability and inequality.

We will have two practicals, one about environmental inequality and another one about experienced segregation using large scale data from pollution and mobility patterns.

Prepare

đź“– Read some papers/reviews we will go over during the lectures and the practicals.

  • Economic impact
    • Gross polluters and vehicle emissions reduction [1]
    • Planning for electric vehicle needs by coupling charging profiles with urban mobility [2]
  • Environmental inequalities
    • Environmental inequality in the neighborhood networks of urban mobility in US cities [3]
    • PM2.5 polluters disproportionately and systemically affect people of color in the United States [4]
  • Urban inequalities
    • Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities [5]
    • Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities [6]

Participate

🖥️ Lecture 13 - Sustainability / Inequality

Perform

⌨️ Lab 13-1 - Environmental Inequalities

⌨️ Lab 13-2 - Experienced segregation



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References

[1]
M. Böhm, M. Nanni, and L. Pappalardo, “Gross polluters and vehicle emissions reduction,” Nature Sustainability, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 699–707, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-00903-x.
[2]
Y. Xu, S. Çolak, E. C. Kara, S. J. Moura, and M. C. González, “Planning for electric vehicle needs by coupling charging profiles with urban mobility,” Nature Energy, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 484–493, Jun. 2018, doi: 10.1038/s41560-018-0136-x.
[3]
N. Brazil, “Environmental inequality in the neighborhood networks of urban mobility in US cities,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 17, p. e2117776119, Apr. 2022, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2117776119.
[4]
C. W. Tessum, D. A. Paolella, S. E. Chambliss, J. S. Apte, J. D. Hill, and J. D. Marshall, “PM2.5 polluters disproportionately and systemically affect people of color in the United States,” Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 18, p. eabf4491, Apr. 2021, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf4491.
[5]
E. Moro, D. Calacci, X. Dong, and A. Pentland, “Mobility patterns are associated with experienced income segregation in large US cities,” Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 1–10, Jul. 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24899-8.
[6]
M. L. Small, A. Akhavan, M. Torres, and Q. Wang, “Banks, alternative institutions and the spatial–temporal ecology of racial inequality in US cities,” Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 5, no. 12, pp. 1622–1628, Jul. 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41562-021-01153-1.