Webinar #31 - UGPN Partnership - Vegetation & CO2 - Social Inequality& Racism & Green Infrastructure

The thirty-first webinar of the 'Reclaiming Forgotten Cities - Turning Cities from Vulnerable Spaces to Healthy Places for People' took place on Wednesday 4th December 2024. The webinar was chaired by RECLAIM co-investigator, Professor Prashant Kumar from the University of Surrey. This webinar included two speakers: Dr Madhusudan Katti, Director of Science, Technology, and Society and Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University and Dr Marco Aurélio de Menezes Franco, Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo. Dr Madhusudan Katti delivered a talk on "How Social Inequality and Systemic Racism Shape Urban Biodiversity and Green Infrastructure: a Case Study from Durham, North Carolina" and Dr Marco Aurélio de Menezes Franco on "Influence of Vegetation on the CO2 Concentration in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo".

After the talk a Q&A session was chaired by Dr Rajan Parajuli from NC State University.

Short bio of speakers:
• Dr. Madhusudan Katti is Director of Science, Technology, and Society and Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. His work centers Reconciliation Ecology—the application of evolutionary ecology to find real-world solutions for reconciling biodiversity conservation with human wellbeing. An ecologist by training, he engages local communities and broader publics in studying how human activities and histories of colonization and segregation shape the distribution of nature and biodiversity, especially in urban areas, in the context of global climate change.

• Dr. Marco Aurélio Franco is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of São Paulo (USP) and holds a PhD in Physics from USP. His research focuses on the atmospheric lifecycle of aerosols, greenhouse gases, and their relationship to land use, with work spanning tropical forests and urban environments. He has conducted research at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry in Germany and completed postdoctoral studies in collaboration with the Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Innovation, applying statistical modeling and machine learning to atmospheric science.


Here are the useful likes:
RECLAIM Network Plus Website
Secondment Call
Link to previous webinars in the RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar Series:
RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar Series Call for Speakers
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