Event

Please join us for the Food for Thought Talks Fall 2023 with the ASAM Fellows 2023-2024. ASAM Fellow Khue Tran presents: "Asian American Participation in Climate Adaptation Planning: A Case Study of New York City’s Heat Adaptation Strategies" 

Lunch will be provided for all registrants!

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Abstract: New York City, the city with the highest number of Asian Americans in the U.S., began strengthening its climate adaptation planning after Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. With global warming on the rise, many of these plans have focused on extreme heat, an especially pressing concern for urban areas. Despite their growing populations in the city and the U.S., Asian Americans remain severely understudied by environmental researchers, and this lack of existing scholarship directly impacts the amount of research-based environmental policy created to serve these communities. This project uses NYC as a case study to investigate the relationships between Asian American communities and climate adaptation planning and the physical and sociopolitical effects of climate change through a lens of environmental justice.

Bio: Khue is a Vietnamese American senior from California. As an Earth & Environmental Science major and ASAM minor, she is passionate about the unique environmental practices of marginalized communities and sustainability in urban environments. At Penn, she is involved in the ASAM Undergraduate Advisory Board, the Vietnamese Students’ Association, and Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership. In her free time, she enjoys reading, live music, and trying out new cafes in Philly.

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