{"id":25961,"date":"2020-05-18T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/?p=25961"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:24:55","slug":"timon-mcphearson-co-chair-of-future-earths-urban-knowledge-action-network-featured-in-urban-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/2020\/05\/18\/timon-mcphearson-co-chair-of-future-earths-urban-knowledge-action-network-featured-in-urban-omnibus\/","title":{"rendered":"Timon McPhearson, Co-Chair of Future Earth&#8217;s Urban Knowledge-Action Network, featured in Urban Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;There are few precedents for understanding the current pandemic; it\u2019s not exactly the kind of disaster we\u2019ve been expecting. But long immersed in the city\u2019s interconnected ecologies and infrastructures, the New School\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/urbansystemslab.com\/\">Urban Systems Lab<\/a> is exploring how many of the key indicators of vulnerability to this crisis overlap with those of another: climate change. With the approach of summer\u2019s heat, continued efforts to contain the virus will place particular pressures on the city\u2019s most vulnerable. We heard from the Lab\u2019s Timon McPhearson, Christopher Kennedy, and Luis Ortiz about their efforts to gather the information that matters most now, and make it useful to policymakers and communities trying to find solutions in a complex and ever-shifting situation.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"center-block text-center\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/urbanomnibus.net\/2020\/04\/making-science-actionable\/\">Making Science Actionable<\/a>, interview on Urban Omnibus featuring Timon McPhearson, Director of the Urban Systems Lab at the New School and Co-chair of Future Earth&#8217;s Urban Knowledge-Action Network Steering Committee<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/273aiv293ycr20z8q53p7o04-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/04\/USL-Orange-Map-screenshot_FW.png\" width=\"1170\" height=\"630\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are few precedents for understanding the current pandemic; it\u2019s not exactly the kind of disaster we\u2019ve been expecting. But [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/2020\/05\/18\/timon-mcphearson-co-chair-of-future-earths-urban-knowledge-action-network-featured-in-urban-omnibus\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":25962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3179,946],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}