News and Publications
Flood risk data in the GTA is often inaccessible or outdated, leaving most residents, urban planners, municipalities and government agencies without the information needed to take preventive measures.Addressing this critical gap, research by Nicole Gordon, Emily Majeed, Nidhi Subramanyam and Robert Soden with the Toronto Climate […]
What happens when grassroots climate justice activists effectively leverage data? Lilly Flawns’ research, honoured with an Honourable Mention for Best Paper at ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’24) in Copenhagen, explores this question.The paper, “Autonomy, Affect, and Reframing: Unpacking the Data Practices of Grassroots Climate Justice Activists,” […]
Welcome to the Toronto Climate Observatory (TCO) is an emerging interdisciplinary initiative hosted at the University of Toronto. The TCO’s mission is to reimagine how communities around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) understand and adapt to the impacts of climate change in accountable, contextually situated, equitable, […]
Lillian Flawn; Robert Soden 2024-07 | Conference paper DOI: 10.1145/3643834.3661585
Mencarini, E.; Nisi, V.; Bremer, C.; Leonardi, C.; Nunes, N.J.; Liu, J.; Soden, R. 2024 | Journal article DOI: 10.1145/3643493
Bowen Zhang; Jennings Anderson; Dipto Sarkar; Robert Soden 2024-05-11 | Conference paper DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3641963