Thursday, April 4th
8:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET
Hybrid-World Bank, Room MC4-100
1818 H St NW, Washington, DC
The World Bank – GWU Sustainable Cities workshop series brings together academics and development practitioners to present and discuss key questions of common interest relating to Sustainable Urbanization. Each workshop in the series focuses on a particular topic relating to cities in developing countries. The workshops are hosted by the World Bank (Urban, DRM, Resilience and Land Global Practice) and George Washington University (Institute for International Economic Policy & Department of Economics). Funding for this project was provided by the Institute for Humane Studies.
This discussion is supported by the GW University Seminar Series on Domestic and International Perspectives on Climate Change and Water Management and the GW University Seminar Series on The Global Socio-Economic Costs of Climate Change and Unsustainable Urbanization
9:05 – 9:25 am: Chandan Deuskar and Jane Park (WB) “Unlivable: What the Urban Heat Island Effect Means for East Asia’s Cities” IN-PERSON
11:40 am – 12:10 pm: Koichiro Ito (Associate Professor at Harris School of Public Policy at University of Chicago) “Local Environmental Externalities”
