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Interdisciplinary framework on sustainable cities

Projects:
IGERT: Sustainable Urban Infrastructure - Integrating...
Institution:
University of Colorado at Denver
Primary Strategic Goal:
Discovery: Foster research that will advance the frontiers of knowledge, emphasizing areas of greatest opportunity and potential benefit and establishing the Nation as a global leader in fundamental transformational science and engineering.
Secondary Strategic Goal:
Learning: Build the Nation's research capability through critical investments in advanced instrumentation, facilities, cyber infrastructure, and experimental tools.

Achievement/Results

This IGERT project developed an inter-disciplinary framework for study of sustainable cities using a social-ecological-intrastructural systems (SEIS) framework. The framework connects theories from engineering, urban planning, environmental sciences, public health and public affairs providing borad-based interdisciplinary education. This framework was accepted for publication in the journal of Industrial Ecology:

Ramaswami, A., Weible, Main, D., Heikkila, T., et al. (2012a). A Social-Ecological-Infrastructural Systems (SEIS) Framework for Inter-Disciplinary Study of Sustainable City-Systems: An Integrative Curriculum Across Seven Major Disciplines. J. Ind. Ecology. 11-JIE-3900.

Address Goals

Unique and first ever interdisciplinary systems integration connecting theories and concepts across engineering, urban planning, environmental sciences, public health and public affairs

Posted By:
Anu Ramaswami
Posted:
December 18, 2012