UREx sustainability research network
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The Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN) is collaborative, international network of academic and professional institutions. Participating organizations are located across the continental US, and in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Chile. The SRN's research addresses topics such as climate resilience and urban adaptation, particularly in response to extreme heat and hydrologic events.
The vision of the UREx SRN is to promote flexible, adaptable, socially equitable, and ecologically based urban infrastructure that enhances resilience in the face of extreme events and continued urbanization pressure. This is a comprehensive network that will build the scientific basis to support existing and emerging city initiatives, and incorporate fundamental and practical strategies to promote urban resilience. Our work is based in a social-ecological-technical systems framework and sustainability approach.
As a members of the SRN, SUPR Lab researchers have been working to better understand risks and opportunities related to extreme heat exposure in Portland and beyond. To date, we have conducted on-the-ground urban heat campaigns in three SRN cities - Portland (OR), Baltimore (MD) and Hermosillo (Mexico). These campaigns engage local citizens in data collection, and result in high-resolution heat surface models that reveal urban hot spots, as well as spatial inequities in heat exposure. Other projects completed by SUPR through the SRN include: modeling impacts of various green infrastructure scenarios on urban heat; and analyzing disproportionate heat exposure in Portland by socio-demographic status.
Special thanks to our partners:
The vision of the UREx SRN is to promote flexible, adaptable, socially equitable, and ecologically based urban infrastructure that enhances resilience in the face of extreme events and continued urbanization pressure. This is a comprehensive network that will build the scientific basis to support existing and emerging city initiatives, and incorporate fundamental and practical strategies to promote urban resilience. Our work is based in a social-ecological-technical systems framework and sustainability approach.
As a members of the SRN, SUPR Lab researchers have been working to better understand risks and opportunities related to extreme heat exposure in Portland and beyond. To date, we have conducted on-the-ground urban heat campaigns in three SRN cities - Portland (OR), Baltimore (MD) and Hermosillo (Mexico). These campaigns engage local citizens in data collection, and result in high-resolution heat surface models that reveal urban hot spots, as well as spatial inequities in heat exposure. Other projects completed by SUPR through the SRN include: modeling impacts of various green infrastructure scenarios on urban heat; and analyzing disproportionate heat exposure in Portland by socio-demographic status.
Special thanks to our partners:
