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Resilient Futures Podcast
Resilient Futures is a monthly podcast on all things resilience! The show examines this topic by discussing ongoing research, highlighting current efforts, and sharing stories of resilience in diverse contexts across the world! By exploring a wide variety of perspectives, the show digs deep into understanding the many dimensions of resilience. New episodes will be released at the start of every month. If you have questions about things we've discussed or have suggestions for future episodes…
Episodes
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COVID Implications for Work and Mobility
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended so many aspects of our lives – from the ways we socialize, the ways and places where we spend our free time, and the ways in…
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Scenario Analysis for Resilient Urban Futures
Doctors Marta Berbes, Nancy Grimm, Robert Hobbins, and Timon McPhearson join Robert Lloyd to talk about how scenarios of future city transformations are…
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Scenario Production for Resilient Urban Futures
Doctors Elizabeth Cook, David Iwaniec, Lelani Mannetti, and Tischa Muñoz-Erickson join Robert Lloyd to talk about the production of scenarios for future city…
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Value-focused Thinking
When asked what infrastructure are supposed to do, responses of course vary dramatically from the mundane (for example, provide water and power) to the…
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Complexity Leadership
It's widely recognized that infrastructure are central to societal goals, that changes to infrastructure and how we use them can have profound impacts on…
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Infrastructure as Knowledge Enterprises
People often think of infrastructure as merely physical assets, but they are the outcome of cultural preferences and how we generate knowledge. In this…
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Corals Combating Climate Change
Climate change has contributed to the severity of tropical storms, causing unprecedented coastal erosion and record rates of flooding. Countries around the…
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Black History Month Spotlight - Dr. Lelani Mannetti
Dr. Lelani Mannetti (Twitter @LelaniM) is a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia State University's Urban Studies Institute. Her research focuses on the analysis…
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Black History Month Spotlight - Dr. Marccus Hendricks
Dr. Marccus Hendricks is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at the University of…
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Black History Month Spotlight - Dr. Prentiss Dantzler
Dr. Prentiss Dantzler (Twitter @DocDantzler) is an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University's Urban Studies Institute. His research focuses on the…
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Black History Month Spotlight - Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd
Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd (Instagram @marsh4fsu, Twitter @DrShepherd2013) is a distinguished meteorologist, professor, writer, podcaster… and that only begins…
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Coastal Resilience in the Hudson Valley
The Hudson River flows from the alpine peaks of New York State’s Adirondack Mountains to the harbor of New York City. Its tidal valley includes diverse…
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Community Organizing for Wetland Conservation and the Green Commons
Host Jason Sauer (PhD candidate, ASU) talks with researcher Heidy Correa (Master of Science, Universidad Austral de Chile) about a grassroots community…
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Learning to Live With Water in New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana faces ecological challenges, but also social challenges in learning to adapt to climate change and to adopt new water management…
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Pedestrian Deaths in America
Pedestrian deaths in the United States have risen by 50% since 2009, with over 6,000 pedestrians dying in 2018 alone. In this month's episode, Stephen Elser…
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Building Smart, Affordable Communities
Roughly 1.6 billion people across the world live in inadequate, unsafe, and overcrowded shelter. In this episode, Stephen Elser (@stephen_elser) interviews…
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The Many Names of Urban Nature
There are many ways to refer to nature in cities: urban green space, nature-based solutions, green infrastructure… But which name is best? Does it really even…
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No Such Thing as a Vacant Lot
Dr. Elsa Anderson stops by the show to talk with us about vacant lots and urban biodiversity, or how urban areas can provide spaces for many species of plants…
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Biomimicry and Infrastructure Resilience
In today’s rapidly evolving climate, and amid unprecedented technological disruptions, engineers and designers seek infrastructure solutions that are resilient…
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Resilience in the Face of COVID-19
Cities are at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, but what happens in cities once a pandemic takes hold? What systems are failing? Are cities prepared to…
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Current Events Minisode: Trees to Help Cities Breathe
As their first topic, Tessa Martinez and Stephen Elser discuss an article on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge being opened up to oil drilling and how that…
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Trees to Help Cities Breathe
We all know that trees provide all sorts of benefits to people, right? But different trees provide different benefits and trees will only provide those…
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Current Events Minisode: Urban Ecology
As their first topic, Tessa Martinez and PhD candidate, Stephen Elser (@stephen_elser), discuss the Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, and how it relates to city…
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Urban Ecology to Improve Our Cities
In this episode, we explore the field of urban ecology and the challenges of doing social-ecological research. Stephen Elser (@stephen_elser) interviews Dr…
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Current Events Minisode: Urban Agriculture
As their first topic, Tessa Martinez and Jason Sauer discuss Arizona’s goal of getting rid of their 43 food deserts. They then talk about the local Phoenix…
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Greening Phoenix Through Urban Agriculture
We talk with two researchers, Dr. Nazli Uludere Aragon and PhD student Michelle Stuhlmacher (@MFStuhlmacher on Twitter) about their recent publication, “Urban…
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Current Events Minisode: Infrastructure and Climate Change
In our first current events minisode, Tessa Martinez and Alysha Helmrich discuss the Australian wildfires and their implications on Sydney’s infrastructure…
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Infrastructure and Climate Change
Climate change is a large source of uncertainty for infrastructure managers. It is easy to feel immobilized by future uncertainty, however, that does not have…
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Digging Our Own (Climate) Graves: Understanding Barriers to Green Infrastructure Development
In this episode, Dr. Marissa Matsler (@oh_the_urbanity) talks with Dr. David Manuel-Navarrete about the evolutionary forces working against wider adoption of…
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Solid Waste Buildup and Threats to Flood Resilience
We're not the Mob but we here at Future Cities still care a lot about waste management! Co-host Jason Sauer talks with Dr. Erin Rivers (@soilandthecity) about…
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Air Quality and Microbes in Philadelphia
This month's guest, Justin Stewart (@thecrobe), studies air quality and atmospheric microbial communities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He tells us about how…
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Hurricanes, and Wetlands, and Nutrients – Oh My!
In this month's episode we sit down with Matt Smith, a PhD candidate at Florida International University, to talk about Hurricane Dorian and some of his…
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Resilience to Floods and Heat in Hermosillo, Mexico
This month, we sit down with two PhD candidates from Arizona State University, Jason Sauer and Yuliya Dzyuban, to talk about their recent trip to Hermosillo…
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SETS Infrastructure
Both infrastructure disasters and infrastructure funding bills are back in the news, so Jason Sauer sat down with Dr. Sam Markolf to talk about a paper Sam…
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Resilient Hospitals
Hospitals are critical to the health of any city, providing essential care to the communities that they serve. Unlike many other buildings, hospitals can't…
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Adapting Phoenix to Extreme Heat
Extreme heat and how to cope with it are two major areas of interest in cities like Phoenix, Arizona. Recently, Maricopa County (where Phoenix is) partnered…
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Heat and Thermal Comfort
This month, Stephen Elser interviews UREx SRN fellow and ASU School of Sustainability PhD student, Yuliya Dzyuban, about her research involving extreme heat…
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Safe to Fail Adaptation
In this episode, Dr. Yeowon Kim explains the difference between “fail-safe” and “safe-to-fail” infrastructure and how shifting towards this new “safe-to-fail"…
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Resilience for Undocumented Community Members
The proposed addition to the US census of a question regarding the legal status of census respondents poses a major problem for both vulnerability researchers…
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Resilience in Infrastructure
In this episode, UREx postdoctoral researcher, Sam Markolf, interviews Dr. Dan Eisenberg about resilience from an engineering perspective. When is being more…
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Flash Flooding in Baltimore
UREx post-docs Bernice Rosenzweig and Marissa Matsler report from on-the-ground in Baltimore. Looking to learn more about how the Memorial Day Weekend extreme…
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Green Stormwater Management in Three U.S. Cities
In this episode, Stephen Elser sits down with Drs. Lauren McPhillips and Marissa Matsler to talk about their recent paper published in Frontiers in Built…
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Paradigmas Insostenibles en Nuestras Ciudades
¿Te has preguntado si la ciudad en la que vives es realmente sustentable?, ¿Que tipo de paradigmas amenazan la resiliencia de nuestras ciudades a condiciones…
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Eventos Extremos
¿Que son los eventos climáticos extremos?, el Dr. Agustín Robles, líder académico de la ciudad de Hermosillo en la Red de Resiliencia Urbana a Eventos Extremos…
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Defining Resilience
We hear the term used all over the place: in music, on TV, in books– but what IS resilience? In this episode, we discuss resilience from the…
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Poems for Resilient and Equitable Cities
Local Phoenix poets including Kimberly Koerth, Jacob Friedman, Rashaad Thomas, and Anna Flores read original poetry about Resilience, Equity, and Diversity…
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Humedales como Infraestructura Verde en Valdivia, Chile
¿Qué es una infraestructura ‘verde’? ¿Qué la puede hacer la por mi ciudad? ¿Por qué estoy mucho más emocionado de aprender sobre infra verde que formas de…
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Wetlands as Green Infrastructure in Valdivia, Chile
What is ‘green’ infrastructure? What can it do for my city? Why am I definitely way more excited to learn about it than I am more traditional forms of…
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Climate Risk and Resilience: Lessons from the 2017 Hurricane Season
The 2017 hurricane season was a record-setting year for hurricanes. Hurricane Harvey dumped more rain on Houston than ever recorded in any US city. Hurricane…
Resilient Futures PodcastGreen Gentrification
Jason Sauer and Marissa Matsler talk with Nathan McClintock about green gentrification in the context of urban agriculture in Portland, Oregon. They discuss…
Resilient Futures PodcastTaller de Escenarios en Hermosillo, México
En este episodio presentamos una de las actividades más importantes de la red de resiliencia urbana a eventos extremos (UREx). Expertos dentro de la red nos…
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Financing Urban Resilience
Urban resilience projects are all well and good, but how do we actually implement them? This episode focuses on the financial aspects of getting projects off…
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Innovation and Social Equity
What does social equity look like in a resilient city? In this episode, graduate students and postdocs reflect on the relationship between 'green' projects and…
Resilient Futures PodcastWelcome to the Future Cities Podcast!
The Future Cities Podcast is dedicated to exploring the ways that cities are making themselves more resilient to extreme weather events. In this episode, our…