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Affiliated PhD Student Tayeba Batool

Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Anthropology

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Publication May 26, 2022 Rethinking the Heavy Hand of Flood Prevention in Informal Settlements: An Investigation of Retreat-Related Practices in the Philippines Researchers and decision-makers increasingly favor managed retreat as an adaptation to address urban floods exacerbated by climate impacts. In the informal settlements of the Global South, national governments, development banks, and other knowledge brokers choose relocation over slum upgrading in their retreat-related activities. They disproportionately relocate informal settlers—who lack legal land tenure— despite the fact that the risk profiles of many places is similar to those that the UN and other global bodies recommend in-situ climate-sensitive upgrade projects. Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Article December 15, 2021 Penn IUR Undergraduate Urban Fellow Named Schwarzman Scholar Penn IUR Undergraduate Urban Fellow Daniel De La Concha won a prestigious Schwarzman scholarship, which fully funds a one-year master's degree in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Urban Development

Article November 17, 2021 Penn IUR's Research for South Korea Penn IUR is working with the Urban Sustainability Laboratory at the Washington-based Wilson Center, a convenor of comparative research with U.S and South Korean scholars and practitioners involving the Housing and Urban Guarantee Corporation (HUG) and the Land and Housing Institute (LHI) of South Korea. Housing Urban Development

Article May 19, 2021 Politics and Prosthetics: 150 Years of Disability in Japan

Advisory Board Member Fahd Mukhtar

Director, Fatima Group

Affiliated PhD Student Charles Starks

Doctoral Candidate, City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design

Urban Development

Emerging Scholar Zhenkun Gan

Assistant Professor, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture

Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Zhongjie Lin

Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

Emerging Scholar Sisi Liang

Associate Professor, Tsinghua University of China Vice Dean, School of Architecture

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Simon Richter

Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of German, Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies, School of Arts and Sciences Chair, Department of Francophone, Italian, and Germanic Studies

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Sidney Wong

Senior Advisor, Econsult Solutions, Inc

Urban Development State & Local Finance

Research Paper March 13, 2018 U.S-Japan Grassroots Exchange Program, 2017 Urban Development

Initiatives February 15, 2018 Gap Analysis of APEC Energy Projects In December 2017, Penn IUR concluded an analysis of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)-sponsored energy efficiency projects, recommending priorities for future funding by illustrating current gaps. This work was a continuation of Penn IUR’s partnership with APEC economies to promote the adoption of energy efficient technologies and practices across the Asia Pacific by supporting knowledge transfer and the adoption of best practices. Urban Development

Scholar Arthur Acolin

Associate Professor and Bob Filley Endowed Chair, Runstad Department of Real Estate, College of Built Environments, University of Washington

Urban Development Rapid Urbanization + 1

Fellow Aromar Revi

Co-Chair of Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IHHS)

Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development + 2

Emerging Scholar Xiaoxia (Summer) Dong

Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania

Urban Development

Faculty Fellow Jere Behrman

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

Climate Change & Resilience

Fellow Joseph Su

Deputy Director, National Development Council, Taiwan

Urban Development

Scholar Devesh Kapur

Starr Foundation South Asia Studies Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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