ABOUT THE INITIATIVE
Under the Center’s leadership, the Global Urban Coastline Initiative will develop a network of trans-disciplinary scholars from across NYU to focus on the generalizable systemic climate, social, and economic stressors that threaten human health in some of the world’s most important coastline cities.
The global urban coastline cities will serve as a living laboratory of use cases for our network of scholars to explore the ways that systems intersect to promote resilience or to accentuate vulnerability.
NETWORK OBJECTIVES
TRANS-DISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE
Develop a platform for trans-disciplinary dialogue and team science.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Articulate a conceptual framework that can accommodate the intersection of multiple systems and scientific epistemologies in describing the production of resilience or vulnerability.
GRANT DEVELOPMENT
Develop a grant proposal responsive to NSF’s call for Research Coordination Networks addressing climate and health.
ONGOING PROJECTS
The Global Urban Coastline Initiative is in the first phase of building the network: developing an understanding of the emerging vulnerabilities that threaten urban coastal cities and how to measure them on a global scale. Our three projects include a literature review focused on the health impacts connected to climate events on urban coastlines, an AI experimentation uncovering the use of AI in our research, and an examination of the global data landscape identifying climate-related health impacts in coastal, urban populations.
MEET THE COASTLINE STEERING COMMITTEE
David Abramson
Principal Investigator
Jo Ivey Boufford
Co-Principal Investigator
Rumi Chanara
Co-Principal Investigator
Brian Hall
Co-Principal Investigator
Angela Hawken
Co-Principal Investigator
