Events & Outreach

Incorporating Social Equity in Multi-Objective Sustainable Infrastructure Planning in Cities

Anu Ramaswami, the Sanjay Swani ’87 Professor of India Studies, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Princeton Environmental Institute, will present “Incorporating Social Equity in Multi-Objective Sustainable Infrastructure Planning in Cities: Some Preliminary Thoughts,” at 4:30 p.m. in the Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71.

Ramaswami will discuss how the Sustainable Healthy Cities Network (SHCN) she leads incorporated social equity into their efforts to develop sustainable, healthy cities through a focus on urban infrastructure and food systems. Their first project developed an analytic approach to incorporate equity into the analysis of co-beneficial infrastructure transitions that seek to reduce both carbon and air-pollution emissions in cities in India. The second describes an overarching equity framework being piloted with three partner cities in the United States that seeks to address inequality in both determinants and in outcomes.

Ramaswami is the second speaker in the Fall 2019 CFI Seminar Series, which is free and open to the public. Additional speakers and dates in this series are:

Sept. 25

“Making Catastrophe Insurance Decisions When the Science Is Uncertain”
Richard Bradley, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, UCHV

Nov. 20

“‘Rapid Switch’ at Princeton: Bringing Political Science and Psychology to Bear on Research on Decarbonization“
Elke U. Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
Robert Keohane, Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus

Dec. 4

Stephen Pacala, Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology