Yang Ju

Built environment, environmental justice, environmental health, urban informatics

Given rapid global trends in urbanization, as well as current and future environmental and societal challenges under climate change, solutions to a sustainable and socially just society lie in our cities. My goal is to provide scientific evidence to support more informed decision-making that aids disadvantaged populations and supports sustainable development in our communities, using GIS, remote sensing, and other analytical methods. My research questions center in the interdisciplinary fields of urbanization, environmental hazards and climate change, environmental health, environmental justice, and policy evaluation. I use various data-driven approaches, such as GIS, remote sensing, econometrics, machine learning, process-based models, and spatial statistics, to answer my research questions.

1. Ju, Y., Moran, M., Wang, X., Avila-Palencia, I., Cortinez-O’Ryan, A., Moore, K., Slovic, A. D., Sarmiento, O. L., Gouveia, N., Caiaffa, W. T., Aguilar, G., Sales, D. M., Pina, M. de F. R. P. de, Coelho, D. M., & Dronova, I. (2021). Latin American cities with higher socioeconomic status are greening from a lower baseline: Evidence from the SALURBAL project. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2a63
2. Cunha, M. da C. M., Ju, Y., Morais, M. H. F., Dronova, I., Ribeiro, S. P., Bruhn, F. R. P., Lima, L. L., Sales, D. M., Schultes, O. L., Rodriguez, D. A., & Caiaffa, W. T. (2021). Disentangling associations between vegetation greenness and dengue in a Latin American city: Findings and challenges. Landscape and Urban Planning, 216, 104255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104255
3. Ju, Y., Cushing, L. J., & Morello-Frosch, R. (2020). An equity analysis of clean vehicle rebate programs in California. Climatic Change, 162(4), 2087–2105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02836-w
4. Ju, Y., Lindbergh, S., He, Y., & Radke, J. D. (2019). Climate-related uncertainties in urban exposure to sea level rise and storm surge flooding: A multi-temporal and multi-scenario analysis. Cities, 92, 230–246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.04.002