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Case Studies
Issues and initiatives in community resilience
Our case studies take a deeper dive to examine problems and solutions in four distinct yet interrelated resilience areas, abbreviated as FUSE:
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Food, energy and water
transitions
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Urban heat and
healthy communities
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Shelter and the built
environment
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Economic security
and work
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Featured case study
Cooling center location optimization for urban heat mitigation
How do you provide thermal comfort, especially during a pandemic? Melissa Guardaro and her team mapped cooling center locations over time to identify the best sites for new cooling centers in order to reach the most vulnerable to heat.
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Modeling the evictions
crisis
A predictive model created by crosscutting scholar Joffa Applegate and Sean Bergin helped decision-makers better anticipate and mitigate a surge in evictions when the federal moratorium ended.
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Housing Loss Across
Maricopa County
D.C.-based New America invited KER researchers to team up to analyze five years of eviction and foreclosure data from Maricopa County, as part of their national study.
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Reimagining outdoor play
and learning environments
As a KER fellow, Jennifer Vanos partnered with Paideia Academies to design new outdoor learning spaces to better protect students from heat and air pollution.