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Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Planning

Vivek Shandas is a faculty member of the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning; a fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions; and founder of the Sustainable Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab, working to connect environmental impacts and human behavior to improve decision-making.

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Vivek Shandas is a faculty member of the Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning; a fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions; and founder of the Sustainable Urban Places Research (SUPR) Lab, working to connect environmental impacts and human behavior to improve decision-making.

Present	Associate Professor, Portland State University ‐ Urban Studies and Planning
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Urban, Community and Regional Planning, Environmental Policy, and Urban Studies

Environmental policy and planning, Environmental justice, Urban ecology and health, and Sustainability

http://www.suprlab.org/

Articles (66)

Spatial Configuration and Time of Day Impact the Magnitude of ...

Environmental Research Letters (2021)

Miguel Alonzo, Matthew Baker, Yuemeng Gao and Vivek Shandas

Tree cover is generally associated with cooler air temperatures in urban environments but the roles of canopy configuration, spatial context, ...

Integrating Diverse Perspectives for Managing Neighborhood Trees and Urban Ecosystem ...

Lorena Nascimento and Vivek Shandas

Municipalities worldwide are increasingly recognizing the importance of urban green spaces to mitigate climate change’s extreme effects and improve residents’ ...

Beyond Landscape Legacies: Redlining, Ecosystem Services, and the Work Ahead

Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver (2020)

The landscapes we inherit are instrumental to the urban ecosystems we study, conservation policies we advance, and collaborations we create. ...

A Community-Engaged Approach to Transdisciplinary Doctoral Training in Urban Ecosystem ...

Sustainability Science (2020)

Heejun Chang, Elise F. Granek, David Ervin, J. Alan Yeakley, et al.

Community-based projects with inclusive stakeholder engagement are increasingly important to achieve robust outcomes in the science and management of ‘wicked’ ...

The Role of Building Characteristics, Demographics, and Urban Heat Islands ...

City and Environment Interactions (2020)

Chrissi Argyro Antonopoulos, Alec Trusty and Vivek Shandas

As global temperatures continue to rise, questions about infrastructure capacity to keep up with energy demand are increasingly germane. Energy ...

The Effects of Historical Housing Policies on Resident Exposure to ...

Jeremy Hoffman, Vivek Shandas and Nicholas Pendleton

The increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of heat waves due to human-caused climate change puts historically underserved populations in a ...

Urban-Rural Surface Temperature Deviation and Intra-Urban Variations Contained by an ...

Remote Sensing (2019)

Kevan B. Moffett, Yasuyo Makido and Vivek Shandas

The urban heat island (UHI) concept describes heat trapping that elevates urban temperatures relative to rural temperatures, at least in ...

Spatial Analysis of Urban Flooding and Extreme Heat Hazard Potential ...

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2019)

Benjamin Fahy, Emma Brenneman, Heejun Chang and Vivek Shandas

Mapping individual and combined hazard potential within a city is key to understanding how urban populations may disproportionately exposed to ...

Towards the Implementation of Green Stormwater Infrastructure: Perspectives from Municipal ...

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (2019)

Vivek Shandas, Annie M. Matsler, Liliana Caughman and Ashley Harris

To mitigate the harmful effects of stormwater runoff, many cities in the United States are constructing green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), ...

A Comparison of Neighborhood-Scale Interventions to Alleviate Urban Heat in ...

Sustainability (2019)

Salim Ferwati, Cynthia Skelhorn, Vivek Shandas and Yasuyo Makido

Recent evidence suggests that many densely populated areas of the world will be uninhabitable in the coming century due to ...

Integrating Satellite and Ground Measurements for Predicting Locations of Extreme ...

Vivek Shandas, Jackson Lee Voelkel, Joseph Williams and Jeremy Hoffman

The emergence of urban heat as a climate-induced health stressor is receiving increasing attention among researchers, practitioners, and climate educators. ...

Nature-Based Designs to Mitigate Urban Heat: The Efficacy of Green ...

Atmosphere (2019)

Yasuyo Makido, Dana E Hellman and Vivek Shandas

Urban heat is a growing environmental concern in cities around the world. The urban heat island effect, combined with warming ...

Rescaling Air Quality Management: An Assessment of Local Air Quality ...

Air, Soil and Water Research (2019)

Kelsea A. Schumacher and Vivek Shandas

Institutional design for local air quality management is an underdeveloped area for research and practice. Although the United States has ...

Ecosystem Services and U.S. Stormwater Planning: An Approach for ...

Environmental Science and Policy (2018)

Todd K. BenDor, Vivek Shandas, Brian Miles, Kenneth Belt, et al.

Green stormwater infrastructure (GI) is gaining traction as a viable complement to traditional “gray” infrastructure in cities across the United ...

Analysis of Urban Heat in a Corridor Environment - The Case ...

Urban Climate (2018)

Salim Ferwati, Cynthia Skelhorn, Vivek Shandas, Jackson Voelkel, et al.

Doha, Qatar is one of the arid coastal cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Like similar cities, temperatures ...

Assessing Vulnerability to Urban Heat: A Study of Disproportionate Heat ...

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2018)

Jackson Voelkel, Dana E Hellman, Ryu Sakuma and Vivek Shandas

Extreme urban heat is a powerful environmental stressor which poses a significant threat to human health and well-being. Exacerbated by ...

Air Pollution Exposure and Mitigation Potential in Portland, OR

Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver (2018)

Meenakshi Rao, Linda A George and Vivek Shandas

The majority of humans today live in cities, making cities the hub of human activity. Much of this activity leads ...

Assessing the Potential of Land Use Modification to Mitigate Ambient ...

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2017)

Meenakshi Rao, Linda A. George, Vivek Shandas and Todd N. Rosenstiel

Understanding how local land use and land cover (LULC) shapes intra-urban concentrations of atmospheric pollutants—and thus human health—is a key ...

Rapid Urban Growth and Land Use Patterns in Doha, Qatar ...

European Journal of Sustainable Development Research (2017)

Vivek Shandas, Yasuyo Makido and Salim Ferwati

Amidst chaotic growth of Asian cities, the expansion of urban infrastructure in the Middle East’s Gulf region is arguably outpacing ...

Towards Systematic Prediction of Urban Heat Islands: Grounding Measurements, Assessing ...

Jackson Voelkel and Vivek Shandas

While there exists extensive assessment of urban heat, we observe myriad methods for describing thermal distribution, factors that mediate temperatures, ...

An Empirical Assessment of Interdisciplinarity: Perspectives from Graduate Students and ...

Innovative Higher Education (2016)

Vivek Shandas and Stephan Edward Brown

Interdisciplinarity is heralded as a relatively new educational and research paradigm that can effectively address complex problems at disciplinary boundaries. ...

Developing High-Resolution Descriptions of Urban Heat Islands: A Public Health ...

Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy (2016)

Jackson Voelkel, Vivek Shandas and Brendon Haggerty

Extreme heat events affect the most vulnerable human populations and are a lethal health hazard to urban dwellers globally; in ...

Integrating High-Resolution Datasets to Target Mitigation Efforts for Improving Air ...

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2016)

Vivek Shandas, Jackson Voelkel, Meenakshi Rao and Linda A. George

Reducing exposure to degraded air quality is essential for building healthy cities. Although air quality and population vary at fine ...

Daytime Variation of Urban Heat Islands: The Case Study of ...

Yasuyo Makido, Vivek Shandas, Salim Ferwati and David J. Sailor

Recent evidence suggests that urban forms and materials can help to mediate temporal variation of microclimates and that landscape modifications ...

Evaluating Urban Heat Islands: Case Studies from Doha, Qatar and ...

Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series (2016)

Vivek Shandas and Jackson Lee Voelkel

With ever-increasing populations in urban areas, and major changes to our climate system, a public health imperative is to prepare ...