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Professor Shagun Mehrotra Offers Insight into Impact of Climate Change on Cities

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the public debate over how climate change may impact urban areas has intensified. Assistant Professor Shagun Mehrotra, who is currently teaching the class Climate Change and Cities, is also the co-editor of Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network.  Last year, Shagun was [...]

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VIDEO: Cities Respond to Climate Change Book Launch

On October 21, we celebrated the New York book launch of Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, co-edited by EPSM’s own Assistant Professor Shagun Mehrotra. Shagun was joined by all of his co-editors, Cynthia Rosenzweig, of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences, CUNY’s William D. Solecki, [...]

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Big Win for Empowerhouse in Solar Decathlon Competition

Congratulations to the Empowerhouse team for recently taking top honors in the Affordability Category in the 2011 Solar Decathlon, a biennial international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The competition brought together an interdisciplinary dream team of students and faculty from Parsons The New School for Design, Milano School of International Affairs, Management [...]

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