BSEC: Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative
BSEC is an Urban Integrated Field Lab that generates the climate science needed to support equitable pathways for climate action in Baltimore City. We have engaged researchers and community partners in an iterative process of priority identification, observation and modeling system design, and multi-objective tradeoff assessments. The outcome is a family of “potential equitable pathways” for climate action, together with a workflow to generate these pathways that can be applied in other cities and to other climate challenges.
| Keywords | Baltimore, climate change, community engagement, environmental justice, environmental modeling, urban environment |
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| TYPE | Urban IFL |
Principal Investigator (PI)
Ben Zaitchik
Lead Institution
Johns Hopkins University
Other Collaborators
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
City University of New York
Drexel University
Morgan State University
Penn State University
University of Maryland Baltimore County
University of Virginia
Urban farmer Liz Lamb discusses cover crop strategy with members of the BSEC research team (Image credit: Ben Zaitchik/Johns Hopkins University)
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