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Eric Chu

Researcher at University of California, Davis

Publications -  105
Citations -  22800

Eric Chu is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urban planning & Urban climate. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 96 publications receiving 19139 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric Chu include Monash University & National Tsing Hua University.

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Socio-spatial legibility, discipline, and gentrification through favela upgrading in Rio de Janeiro

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to global perspectives on gentrification by interrogating the experiences of urban redevelopment and transformation in the global South through unpacking the contradictions of urban renewal and transformation.
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Transformative Adaptation in Cities

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose to move beyond incremental adaptation to transformative adaptation, and how to achieve sustainable, climate-resilient, and equitable cities in cities with low adaptive capacity.
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A distributed algorithm for fitting generalized additive models

TL;DR: This work presents a distributed algorithm for fitting generalized additive models, based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM), in which the component functions of the model are fit independently, in parallel; a simple iteration yields convergence to the optimal generalized additive model.
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The embodied politics of climate change: analysing the gendered division of environmental labour in the UK

TL;DR: The intersection between gender and climate change action has received little scholarly attention as mentioned in this paper, and to facilitate a critical orientation towards the informal economies of social reproduction, the authors of this paper have proposed a framework to facilitate this intersection.
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Inclusive Development and Climate Change:: The Geopolitics of Fossil Fuel Risks in Developing Countries

TL;DR: The authors argued that instead of a blind neo-colonial process of rapidly replicating the development paths of already industrialized countries, developing countries must adopt their own unique development strategies that are more inclusive and transformative.