{"id":24288,"date":"2023-05-12T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=24288"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T15:27:41","slug":"xiaofei-qin","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/xiaofei-qin\/","title":{"rendered":"Xiaofei Qin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaofei Qin is<span>\u00a0a Summer in the Field Fellow, 2023 and\u00a0<\/span>a Ph.D. candidate in the Earth and Environment program at Boston University. She received her Bachelor&#8217;s and Master&#8217;s degrees in Human Geography in China. Her main research interests are e<span>nvironmental governance, collective acti<\/span><span>on and <\/span><span>environmental<\/span><span> <\/span><span>equity<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For her Summer in the Field Fellowship, Xiaofei will conduct field surveys to gather feedback from local residents of heat-vulnerable communities in Guangzhou, a city in southern China that is at high risk of heat waves, on heat-mitigation-related actions. The project aims to conduct 30 interviews with various participants, including governmental staff members who lead heat-mitigation projects, heat-vulnerable people, non-vulnerable people, and non-governmental organizations that participate in heat-mitigation projects. <\/span>Xiaofei hopes the findings will help identify the gap between heat vulnerability and mitigation action in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19928,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19928"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/24288\/revisions\/24325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}