Eric Chu

Bio: 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.

The Grounding for a Fossil Fuel Free World: Integrating Climate Change Education into Secondary Schools

Abstract: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recognises the importance of a shared baseline of awareness and knowledge to mobilise commitment to address climate change. Schools can provide the first opportunity for this, with life-long impact in behaviour. While Western countries are regarded as relatively “advanced” in these activities, and have higher levels of awareness, there is little literature on how states engage with climate change education and sparse empirical data on the specifics of different political and institutional arrangements that shape the implementation of such education. Against this background, this chapter addresses the question: How is climate change learning being integrated into secondary school education? It examines the policy underpinnings for climate change education and related scholarly debates. It compares England, Netherlands, France and Belgium, showing how different approaches and implementation processes favour particular competences, knowledge, values or behaviour. It concludes that a centralised policy approach is effective in widespread implementation, while a decentralised policy approach relies on the commitment of teachers. Partisan and ideological battles at the national level influence curriculum development, and political struggles influence how climate science is taught. A rounded climate change education demands political consciousness, yet is incompatible with mainstream education that accepts the status quo. Without consistent advocacy, support and direction by policymakers, climate education may stagnate, lack purpose and add to public confusion.

A note on unimodular eigenvalues for palindromic eigenvalue problems

Abstract: We consider the occurrence of unimodular eigenvalues for palindromic eigenvalue problems associated with the matrix polynomial where A i *= A n − i with M * ≡ M T, M H or . From the properties of palindromic eigenvalues and their characteristic polynomials, we show that eigenvalues are not generically excluded from the unit circle, thus occurring quite often, except for the complex transpose case when P n is complex and M * ≡ M T. This behaviour is observed in numerical simulations and has important implications on several applications such as the vibration of fast trains, surface acoustic wave filters, stability of time-delay systems and crack modelling.

The shifting geographies of climate justice : Mobile vulnerabilities in and across Indian cities

Abstract: This chapter takes the cases of Bangalore and Surat in India to examine how the reorganisation of labour, together with its associated economic networks and spatial infrastructure, is emblematic of the shifting interconnections between uncertain climate change risks and experiences of local economic transformations. Through documenting migrants’ exposure to varying forms of vulnerability, the chapter illustrates the mobility of climate injustice across space via pathways of labour informality and environmental marginality. The chapter theorises the shifting geographies of climate injustice within and across the ill-defined boundaries of the “urban” in the Global South. It concludes that first, spatially and temporally “static” definitions of climate justice fail to account for the mobility of people and transfer of vulnerabilities across space. Second, climate justice theories must encompass priorities to transform economic structures underlying economic informality. Future research must therefore examine the multiple intersections of urban labour, identity politics and economic marginalisation under climate change in the Global South.

Perturbation results related to palindromic eigenvalue problems

Abstract: We investigate the perturbation of the palindromic eigenvalue problem for the matrix quadratic $P(\lambda) \equiv \lambda^2 A_1^T + \lambda A_0 + A_1$, with $A_0,\, A_1 \in \cs^{n \times n}$ and $A_0^T = A_0$. The perturbation of palindromic eigenvalues and eigenvectors, in terms of general matrix polynomials, palindromic linearizations, (semi-Schur) anti-triangular canonical forms and differentiation, are discussed. doi:10.1017/S144618110800031X

The Production of Space

Abstract: ‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.