Residents of the Brazilian city Porto Alegre enjoy a high quality of life, but unprecedented population growth has led to urban challenges. Large residential buildings now occupy former conservation areas, housing has sprung up in areas where floods and landslides are common, and there has been explosive growth in the number of cars. Porto Alegre has established a working group of universities, government officials, and residents to build an urban resilience plan that diagnoses risk areas, and which better educates and alerts residents.
The University of Georgia New Materials Institute’s (UGA NMI) Circularity Informatics Lab (CIL) has joined the Urban Ocean program as a core partner and program…
Just a few years from 2030, progress on gender equality remains uneven. According to the United Nations (2022), only 15.4% of SDG 5 indicators are…
Gender influences how people access, move through and experience city life, shaping mobility, safety, economic opportunity and access to services. Gender equity has been recognized…
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