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A brief video about a recent paper published in Global Sustainability

Jozaei, J., Chuang, W., Allen, C.R., Garmestani, A. Social vulnerability, social-ecological resilience and coastal governance (2022). Global Sustainability. In press.

Publications:

Jozaei, J., Chuang, W., Allen, C.R., Garmestani, A. Social vulnerability, social-ecological resilience and coastal governance (2022). Global Sustainability. In press.

Chuang, W., Eason, T.N., Garmestani, A.S., Roberts C. 2019. Impact of Hurricane Katrina on coastal system in southern Louisiana. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 7:68. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2019.00068

Angeler, D.G., Peterson, H., Allen, C.R., Garmestani, A., Twidwell, D., Chuang, W., Donovan, V.M., Eason T.N., Roberts, C.P., Sundstrom, S.M. and Wonkka, C.L. (2019). Adaptive capacity in ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research. 60: 1-24.

Eason, T.; Chuang, W.; Sundstrom, S.; Cabezas, H. (2019). An Information Theory-Based Approach to Assessing Spatial Patterns in Complex Systems. Entropy 21, 182.

Chuang, W., Garmestani, A.S., Eason, T.N., Spanbauer, T.L., Fried-Petersen, H., Roberts, C.P., Burnett, J., Angeler, D.G., Chaffin, B.C., Gunderson, L., Sundstrom, S.M., Twidwell, D., and Craig, A.R. (2018). Enhancing Quantitative Approaches for Assessing Community Resilience. Journal of Environmental Management. 213C, pp. 353-362.

Herrmann, D.L., Chuang, W., Schwarz, K., Bowles, T.M., Garmestani, A.S., Shuster, W.D., Eason, T.N., Hopton, M.E. and Craig R. Allen (2018). Agroecology for the Shrinking City. Sustainability, 10(3), 675; doi:10.3390/su10030675.

Chuang, W., Boone, C.G., Locke, D.H., Grove, J.M., Whitmer, A.L., Buckley, G., and Zhang, S. (2017). Tree Canopy Change and Neighborhood Stability: A Comparative Analysis of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, MD. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 27, 363-372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2017.03.030.

NPR Network WAMU feature article, “Why Do D.C.’s Poorer Neighborhoods Have Fewer Trees?” https://wamu.org/story/17/11/01/d-c-s-poorer-neighborhoods-fewer-trees/

Smith, M.E., Stark, B.L., Chuang, W., Dennehy, T., Harlan, S., Kamp-Whittaker A., Stanley, B.W. and Abigail, Y. (2016). Comparative Methods for Premodern Cities: Coding for Governance and Class Mobility. Cross-Cultural Research. 50(5), 415-451. doi:10.1177/1069397116665824.

Wolf, T., Chuang, W., & McGregor, G. (2015). On the science-policy bridge: Do Spatial Heat Vulnerability Assessment Studies Influence Policy? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(10), 13321-13349. doi:10.3390/ijerph121013321.

Chuang, W., & Gober, P. (2015). Predicting Hospitalization for Heat-Related Illness at the Census-Tract Level: Accuracy of a Generic Heat Vulnerability Index in Phoenix, Arizona (USA). Environmental Health Perspectives, 123(6), 606-612. doi:10.1289/ehp.1307868.

Chuang, W., Karner, A., Selover, N., Hondula, D., Chhetri, N., Middel, A., Roach, M. and Dufour, B. (2015). Arizona Extreme Weather, Climate and Health Profile Report. A report prepared for Arizona Department of Health Services and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative. ADHS15-077418. https://sustainability.asu.edu/research/project/building-resilience-against-climate-effects-state-of-arizona/

Chuang, W., Gober, P., Chow, W.T.L., & Golden, J. (2013). Sensitivity to Heat: A Comparative Study of Phoenix, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois (2003–2006). Urban Climate, 5(0), 1-18.

Hartz, D.A., Golden, J.S., Sister, C., Chuang, W., & Brazel, A. J. (2012). Climate and heat-related emergencies in Chicago, Illinois (2003–2006). International Journal of Biometeorology, 56(1), 71-83. doi:10.1007/s00484-010-0398-x.

Chow, W.T.L., Chuang, W., & Gober, P. (2011). Vulnerability to Extreme Heat in Metropolitan Phoenix: Spatial, Temporal, and Demographic Dimensions. The Professional Geographer, 64(2), 286. doi:10.1080/00330124.2011.600225.

Golden, J.S., Chuang, W., and Stefanov, W. (2008). Enhanced Classifications of Engineered Paved Surfaces for Urban Systems Modeling. Journal of Earth Interactions 13:1-18.

Research featured in a local NPR station:

NPR Network WAMU feature article, “Why Do D.C.’s Poorer Neighborhoods Have Fewer Trees?