Zero Carbon, Resilient, Equitable Cities: Infrastructure Innovations and Systems Analysis

This course focuses on: a) interdisciplinary conceptual research frameworks to address multi-scale/-sector/-objective urban systems with zero carbon resilience and equity goals; b) city scale carbon accounting incorporating MFA and LCA; c) multi-scale modeling of nested zero carbon pathways in communities; d) data analysis of inequality to inform equity in designing just infrastructure transitions; e) infrastructure and environment related health risk assessment following the global burden of disease methodology; f) measuring carbon and resilience co-benefits of distributed infrastructure systems exploring nexus linkages.