Enhancing Urban Sustainability with Data, Modeling, and Simulation Proceedings of a Workshop (2019) / Chapter Skim
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6 Reflections and Next Steps
6 Reflections and Next Steps
Pages 55-62
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Jeanne Holm, City of Los Angeles, said that cities have limited bandwidth for partnering with universities. A regional association of governments is a powerful tool that worked well in Los Angeles.
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, described her organization's decadal state of the carbon cycle science report, which assessed carbon cycle science across land, air, water, and society in North America. She said that urban sustainability will be attractive for many years and encouraged everyone to consider how to enhance the feedback loop and interactions among 1 For more information about Girls Who Code, see https://girlswhocode.com, accessed March 12, 2019.
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She echoed Keller's assertion that a thorough data discovery is necessary to understand what data are available to address a research question. She emphasized the value of citizen science and crowdsourcing -- people with mobile phones and wearable devices are constantly generating data, and she hopes that this work is lifted to a level of rigor in which it can be used in academic research.
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As an example, Holm mentioned that through a partnership with Waze, the city of Los Angeles shares information about high traffic-accident injury networks with the app so that it can direct people around potential accident spots. She described this as a highly synergistic way to share information.
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Ganguly asked about how academic researchers can best translate information, as some audiences will desire more information than others. Ensor explained that it is important to bring the correct level of science to the conversation, and Holm noted that city employees can have very different backgrounds, so that not all of them are savvy with data or scientific research.
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Ensor said that new statistical methodologies allow people to work across private databases without having to share the data; this is helpful when the goal is to get to a decision supported by information, not necessarily to hold the data. Keller added that there is a growing body of technology and solutions for issues related to data governance.
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Future Work Michelle Schwalbe, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, asked how the National Academies could aid in the continuation of these discussions or whether there are other key stakeholders with whom to engage. Ensor suggested resuming the conversation with a series of roundtables that drive both scientist and practitioner inquiry.
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He closed the workshop by thanking participants, noting that society is on the cusp of big changes and expressing his hope that the National Academies would continue this conversation.
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