Slum, shantytown, bidonville, barrio, favela, and urban village — each of these terms carries social, historical, and linguistic particularities. But satellite imagery gives us a common lens through which to view them.
Every day, 300,000 people are being connected to electricity through efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 7): “Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.” For them, new access to electricity comes with a host of new data harvesting by electricity meters, appliances, and payment tracking.
The world is on the cusp of dramatic changes in the ways people own, operate and power their means of transportation. Known as the “three revolutions,” a term coined by UC Davis transportation professor Daniel Sperling, the new trends are: electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles and sharing-oriented business models (think Uber and Lyft).
Last week, New York City passed the nation’s first cap on new licenses for ride-hailing vehicles, like those driving for Uber and Lyft, citing in part concerns over worsening congestion and declining transit ridership. The decision represents the culmination of alarm over app-based ride-hailing companies and could serve as a blueprint for cities across the U.S.
“The latrines that are safeguarding the health of the majority are also exposing a minority to fatal health risks.” ERG Ph.D. candidate Sharada Prasad and public health graduate student Rachel Sklar have produced a video for UC Global Health Day. UC Global Health Day is a showcase for the research, training and outreach in global health being undertaken across the University of California. The goal of UC Global Health Day…
We generally complain that action on climate change is mired in polarized partisan politics and thus nothing can be done. True to an extent, but lets hold on a bit. In terms of generating important discussion about the clarity that exists around the conclusion that the scientific debate over climate change as an anthropogenic process is over, the political bully pulpit can be incredibly powerful. A case in point…
Current trends and lessons from history on energy development in the Caribbean.