12:00pm to 1:00pm An Ecology of Segregation: expanding the domain of urban environmental justice research and action in Baltimore, MD. Morgan Grove PhD, USDA Forest Service Scientist and Team Leader, Northern Research Station Moderator Speaker Information Morgan Grove is a social scientist and Team Leader for the USDA Forest Service's Baltimore Urban Field Station and is a Hixon Center Senior Fellow at Yale University. He joined the USDA Forest Service in 1996 and has been a Co-Principal Investigator in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) since its beginning in 1997. Morgan was the Social Science Scholar in Residence at the National Social-Environmental Synthesis Center for two years, from 2016-2018. Morgan is the lead author for The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities, which advances a new school of urban ecology for the 21st century. He co-edited a companion book, Science for the Sustainable City: Empirical Insights from the Baltimore School of Urban Ecology, will be published in 2019. Morgan has a B.A. from Yale College with a dual degree in Architecture and Environmental Studies, a M.F.S. in Community Forestry from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from Yale University. Morgan was a Yale F&ES URI intern in 1989.
12:00pm to 1:00pm City Agency Directors Leading Innovations in New Haven Giovanni Zinn, City of New Haven '05 BS, Director of Engineering Speaker Information Giovanni Zinn, P.E. is the City Engineer for the City of New Haven as of 2014. As City Engineer, he has worked on many projects focused on sustainable and livable infrastructure, including complete streets, encouraging alternative transportation options, adopting green infrastructure, designing resilient living shoreline installations, and reducing the City's carbon footprint through aggressive energy reduction. Prior to leading the Engineering Department, Giovanni also served as a project manager for the City of New Haven’s Engineering Department and Office of Sustainability and managed environmental programs for the City Plan Department. Giovanni graduated from Yale College in 2005, and lives in New Haven with his wife Megan and their three little boys (who keep them very busy!). Doug Hausladen, City of New Haven Director of Transportation, Traffic & Parking Speaker Information Doug Hausladen serves as the Director of the Transportation, Traffic & Parking Department for the City of New Haven and the Acting Executive Director for the New Haven Parking Authority. He graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a degree in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry. Mr. Hausladen comes to the public sector from a transportation advocacy and activism background with professional experiences in real estate management, entrepreneurship, and public health. He was twice-elected to the Board of Alders in New Haven representing the 7th Ward encompassing the Downtown, Dwight, Wooster Square, and East Rock neighborhoods. Mayor Toni Harp then appointed him for a four-year term to his current position beginning on February 1st, 2014 and asked him to lead the New Haven Parking Authority in August of 2015. In his present role he is a leader in New England in Complete Streets, Smart Parking, Mobile Payment, Active Transportation, and Sustainability. Mr. Hausladen was born and raised on the Kentucky side of Cincinnati, OH and is the head coach of the Yale club water polo program. Rebecca Bombero, City of New Haven Director of Parks, Recreation and Trees
12:00pm to 1:00pm Urban Planning in Context: Experiences and Lessons Learned Working with Local Governments in Asia Asha Ghosh Speaker Information The Hixon Center for Urban Ecology is excited to invite Asha Ghosh to speak as part our Spring Speaker Series. The event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided. Location: Marsh Hall Rotunda, 360 Prospect St. New Haven, CT 06511.
10:00am to 11:00am Examining Energy Consumption Transitions in Urbanizing Indian households Radhika Khosla, Somerville College and University of Oxford Research Director and Senior Researcher Speaker Information Radhika Khosla is the Research Director of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development (Somerville College) and a Senior Researcher at the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment (School of Geography and the Environment) at the University of Oxford. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. Radhika's work examines the productive tensions between urban transitions, energy services and climate change, with a focus on developing country cities. Her research focuses on examining the socio-technical drivers and patterns of changing energy consumption in urbanizing cities, and the forms of governance that characterize urban responses to climate change in such rapidly developing cities. Radhika's previous affiliations include the Centre for Policy Research, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the MIT Energy Initiative. She holds a PhD in the Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate and master's degrees in Physics from the University of Oxford. Abstract Examining Energy Consumption Transitions in Urbanizing Indian households Demand-side measures, such as urban energy management in households, are central to addressing global climate change. Examining and shaping energy consumption patterns is particularly salient in developing countries, where the bulk of urban growth is projected to occur, and which are often the most vulnerable to climate impacts. India, which is at the cusp of the largest urban transition predicted in history, is key to these discussions. Indian cities will host 200 million more people in newly constructed infrastructure by 2030, mostly starting from a low base of development. A combination of residential growth, development needs, rising incomes, and government policy to provide uninterrupted electricity, is projected to increase electricity consumption five to six times between 2014 and 2030, to create unprecedented urban energy demands. Based on surveys undertaken in 2016-17, this presentation examines transitioning electricity consumption patterns in urban housing in India. It discusses results from 5500 representative households in the National Capital Region. Alongside, it discusses results from the growing, yet often ignored, changing energy patterns in low-income housing. Quantitative analysis is complemented with qualitative research on the interactions between technologies, behaviours and institutions. Together, the presentation will discuss which electricity services are demanded as households urbanize, and how the ownership of appliances which provide these services is changing with the ability of households to consume more. Shedding light on these questions helps improve future demand and mitigation potential estimates to systematize research on urban climate solutions. It aims to inform policy measures to lock-in low-carbon development pathways at a scale that is relevant for India, and more broadly, for an adequate global urban response to climate change.
12:00pm Future Cities: How and where should they be built? Visiting Fellow Speaker Information Galina Churkina has a PhD from the School of Forestry, University of Montana, USA and a diploma in Mathematics from the Moscow State University, Russia. After graduation she held a post-doctoral position at the Department of Plant Physiology, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Thereafter she worked as a senior scientist and a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research in Germany. She held visiting appointments at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and at the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), University of Michigan, USA. She was a senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany.
