{"id":50577,"date":"2017-12-04T09:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/?p=50577"},"modified":"2022-03-25T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T13:45:48","slug":"mets-urban-adaptation-expert-helps-prep-university-for-climate-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/news\/mets-urban-adaptation-expert-helps-prep-university-for-climate-events\/","title":{"rendered":"MET\u2019s Urban Adaptation Expert Helps Prep University for Climate Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/met\/files\/2020\/09\/met-urban-adaptation-expert-helps-prep-university-for-climate-events.jpg\" alt=\"MET\u2019s Urban Adaptation Expert Helps Prep University for Climate Events\" width=\"755\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-50578 size-full\" title=\"MET\u2019s Urban Adaptation Expert Helps Prep University for Climate Events\"><\/p>\n<p>As part of BU\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/climateactionplan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Climate Action Plan<\/a> Task Force, <a href=\"\/met\/faculty\/full-time\/madhu-c-dutta-koehler\/\">Dr. Madhu Dutta-Koehler<\/a>, director of the MET <a href=\"\/met\/programs\/graduate\/city-planning\/\">City Planning<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/programs\/graduate\/urban-affairs\/\">Urban Affairs<\/a> programs and associate professor of the practice, is applying her expertise in urban resilience to help devise plans for the University to weather potential high-impact weather events affecting the Charles River campus.<\/p>\n<p>Dutta-Koehler, whose most recent research delves into climate adaptation in mega-cities, says the work\u2014and the foresight required to take on the challenge\u2014is part of what makes Boston University a leader in the field of urban planning and sustainability. \u201cUnlike a lot of major research universities, BU in its action has shown that it deeply cares for its community, and the environment, and the city that it is in,\u201d Dutta-Koehler says in a recent video. \u201cAnd I am really proud to be a part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of Associate Professor Dutta-Koehler discussing her work with the Climate Action Task Force below, and learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sustainability\/what-you-can-do\/what-youre-doing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#BUClimateAction here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H3e3IsiWbMg\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of BU\u2019s Climate Action Plan Task Force, Dr. Madhu Dutta-Koehler, director of the MET City Planning &amp; Urban Affairs programs and associate professor of the practice, is applying her expertise in urban resilience to help devise plans for the University to weather potential high-impact weather events affecting the Charles River campus. Dutta-Koehler, whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,39,147,37,76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76451,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50577\/revisions\/76451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/met\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}