Vivek Shandas, PhD specializes developing strategies for addressing the implications of climate change on cities. His teaching and research examine the intersection of exposure to climate-induced events, governance processes, and planning mechanisms.

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Speaker

Vivek Shandas, PhD
Professor
Founder and Director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab
Geography - Liberal Arts & Sciences
Portland State University

As an interdisciplinary scholar, Shandas studies the emergent characteristics that generate vulnerability among communities and infrastructure.

Theoretically, he views cities as grand experiments that are socially constructed, and can vary in their capacities to adapt to changing social and ecological conditions.

Empirically, he examines the human and planetary forces that facilitate (or inhibit) collective response. As such the broad aims of his teaching and research are to identify threats to planetary habitation, and shape landscapes to improve urban environmental quality. He teaches courses in environmental planning, participatory geographic information systems (GIS), and climate adaptation.