Filtered by: Infrastructure
Mitra Piece on India's Development Policy Challenge Published by the 1991 Project
“While it [India] has acquired some economic and political heft in global affairs on account of its large economy, it must rapidly raise the economic fortunes of the average Indian. Its current demographic situation makes this necessary. It is crucial that the country find productive employment for its young and rapidly expanding labor force in a way that fulfills the aspirations of these new workers,” writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics.
See related: Economic Policy, India, Infrastructure, Labor, Trade
Huber Quoted in Cronkite News Article on the Paris Olympics as a Blueprint of Sustainability
Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment, highlights the infrastructural advantage France has to promote sustainability. “France is known for having one of the most decarbonized electric grids in the world because they have about 70% of their electricity coming from nuclear power, which is zero carbon energy,” Huber says.
See related: Energy, Europe, Infrastructure, Sustainability
Golden Article on the Implications of EVs on State Budgets Published in Governing
See related: Infrastructure, State & Local, Taxation, United States
Huber Article on the Politics of Building Published in Damage Magazine
“The turn to a ‘politics of building’ is a welcome change in environmental thinking, but the green Left is still at odds in important ways with the labor movement, which better understands what is needed for deep decarbonization and, most importantly, has the power to help bring it about,” writes Matthew Huber, professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Infrastructure, Labor, Sustainability, United States
Real-World Applications
A research team that includes Public Health professors Bryce Hruska and David Larsen is studying how place-based community factors contribute to, or protect against, an elevated risk of firearm violence in certain ethnic neighborhoods. The team’s findings may help shape Syracuse’s I-81 Viaduct Project.
See related: Crime & Violence, Infrastructure, New York State, Race & Ethnicity, State & Local, Urban Issues
O’Keefe Speaks With Al Jazeera About Boeing’s Leadership Shakeup, Safety Crisis
University Professor Sean O’Keefe says whoever is appointed at Boeing will need to be able to listen to the concerns of the industry. In particular, they will need to work hand in hand with its airline customers—from Alaska Airlines to United—to make sure safety issues will be the focus in the months ahead, he says.
See related: Infrastructure, United States
9 Projects Awarded MetLife Foundation-Lender Center Racial Wealth Gap Grants
The awards are funded by a 2022 MetLife Foundation grant that supports research and community programming over three years to examine the racial wealth gap’s root causes and ideas that may resolve its economic and social inequalities, says Kendall Phillips, Lender Center interim director.
See related: Defense & Security, Economic Policy, Housing, Income, Infrastructure, Race & Ethnicity, State & Local, U.S. Education, United States
Timur Hammond - How Are We Shaped by the Places We Call Home?
Timur Hammond, assistant professor of geography and the environment, explores the impact of our environments in shaping identity and culture.
See related: Environment, Infrastructure, Urban Issues
Maxwell Students Take Honors in City of Syracuse’s Inaugural Open Data Day
Encouraged by Associate Professor Michiko Ueda-Ballmer, the group of mostly MPA students used public data to address city transportation challenges.
See related: Awards & Honors, Infrastructure, State & Local, Student Experience, Urban Issues
Examining the Smart City Generational Model: Conceptualizations, Implementations, and Infrastructure
"Examining the Smart City Generational Model: Conceptualizations, Implementations, and Infrastructure Canada's Smart City Challenge," co-authored by Austin Zwick, assistant teaching professor of policy studies, was published in Urban Affairs Review.
See related: Canada, Infrastructure, State & Local
Rutherford Quoted in PolitiFact Article on Shift to Electric Vehicles
If the (Biden) administration does not incentivize an electric transition, it means the U.S. will cede EV [electric vehicle] leadership to China," says Tod Rutherford, professor of geography and the environment. "The Europeans are very alarmed by this and especially the German manufacturers are scrambling to catch up."
See related: Environment, Federal, Infrastructure, United States
Ueda-Ballmer Quoted in New York Times Article on Subway Platform Safety
Michiko Ueda-Ballmer, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, says the authority should install at least small metal gates to make the system safer. “It’s better than nothing,” she says. “If there’s somebody pushed, just by accident, and if you have metal bars, I think that would definitely help.”
See related: Infrastructure, Mental Health, New York City
Coffel Weighs In on the Effect of Extreme Heat on Airplanes in Bloomberg Article
Hot air is less dense than cold air meaning planes have less lift when the mercury rises. “This is a physical restriction related to air density, and there are not a whole lot of direct technological fixes for it,” says Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Infrastructure, United States
Coffel Speaks to Newsweek About the Effects Climate Change Has on Flying
"There are three primary effects [of climate change on flying]: a reduction in payload capacity for some flights because of rising temperatures, an increase in clear air turbulence on some flight routes, and changes in fuel consumption on some routes due to changes in upper level wind speeds," says Ethan Coffel, assistant professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Climate Change, Infrastructure, United States
Exploring factors shaping transportation electrification in American cities
"Exploring factors shaping transportation electrification in American cities," co-authored by Saba Siddiki, associate professor of public administration and international affairs, was published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition.
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Mosher Featured in Philadelphia Magazine Article on Metropolitan Expansion
"What all of this adds up to is a really complicated rewiring of activity patterns where people who live in the hinterland have greater choice as to which big city they gravitate toward for employment/shopping/sports-team fandom, where they can more easily travel to the big city they find most appealing," says Anne Mosher, associate professor of geography and the environment.
See related: Infrastructure, Rural Issues, United States, Urban Issues
Taylor Talks to Forbes About What the Future Holds for Russia
Brian Taylor, professor of political science, discusses the war’s progress, the state of the Russian economy, Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, Vladimir Putin’s view of Ukrainian sovereignty and other topics.
See related: Economic Policy, Government, Infrastructure, Russia, Ukraine
Rothenberg Discusses Recent Research in Indonesia on the Benefits of Road Maintenance with VoxDev
Alexander Rothenberg, assistant professor of economics, and co-authors analyze how changes in road quality driven by maintenance and upgrading decisions impact local economic outcomes in Indonesia.
See related: Economic Policy, Infrastructure, South Asia
Gadarian Quoted in Newsweek Article on Feds Financing Bridge Repair
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Zwick explores the relationship between technology and cities
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