{"id":108,"date":"2018-03-26T09:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T09:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2018-09-27T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T09:42:25","slug":"vulnerable-communities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/working-groups\/vulnerable-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerable\u00a0Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sociotechnical systems and increased vulnerability from climate changes in cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stephanie Pincetl \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Professor, Institute of the Environment and\u00a0Sustainability, UCLA<\/li>\n<li>Kian Goh\u00a0 \u00a0Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA<\/li>\n<li>Mark Gold\u00a0 Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Climate changes place increasing stresses on existing sociotechnical systems, both in cities, and those that support cities (e.g. electricity grids, water systems, transport systems, as well as increased heat exposures, increased flooding in cities and more).\u00a0 We propose a panel that explores how modernist sociotechnical systems \u2013 and a lack of such \u2013 may enhance human vulnerability in cities due to impacts of a changing climate.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome participants who work on water, energy, housing, urban form and the impacts of modernist sociotechnical systems \u2013 or a lack of alternative approaches \u2013 impact the health and resilience of urban dwellers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociotechnical systems and increased vulnerability from climate changes in cities Stephanie Pincetl \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Professor, Institute of the Environment and\u00a0Sustainability, UCLA Kian Goh\u00a0 \u00a0Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA Mark Gold\u00a0 Associate Vice Chancellor for Environment and Sustainability Climate changes place increasing stresses on existing sociotechnical systems, both in cities, and those that support cities (e.g. electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":56,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/705"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/apru-scl.arch.hku.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}