Zih-Hong Lin

UNSW Sydney | UNSW · School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences (BEES)

COVID-19 has dramatically altered daily life worldwide, with some urban residents resorting to panic buying at the beginning of the pandemic. Large-scale lockdowns and restaurant closures have increased the need for grocery shopping. Such shifts in consumer patterns have altered supply-demand systems. Insufficient food store availability increases...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted our daily lives worldwide. For instance, pandemic-prevention policies restrict people’s mobility, which causes problems in accessing urban greenspaces. Indeed, unequal access to urban greenspace has been accentuated during the most stringent lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Amid such challenging circumstan...

During times of stress and social pressure, urban green space provides social, cultural, and economic resources that help individuals and communities cope. Green space accessibility is, therefore, an important indicator related to people’s health and welfare. However, green space accessibility is not even throughout urban areas, with some areas bet...

Climate change has caused various issues for our society and the environment. To decrease these impacts, abundant urban green infrastructure is considered a significant policy strategy. Green infrastructure provides a variety of social and ecological benefits, from improving mental health to managing flood conditions. Although previous studies have...

Global climate change has resulted in extreme events occurring with increasing intensity and frequency. Due to the limitations of traditional structural engineering measurements, vulnerability measurement has become critical in disaster mitigation according to the IPCC and UNISDR. Currently, flood vulnerability studies focus on evaluating the prese...

Global climate change has intensified extreme climate events such as torrential rain/snow, heat waves, and droughts. Among climate disaster events, extreme heat can bring long and intensified heat waves and seriously impact the human living environment and ecological habitat. However, extreme heat may have inconsistent impacts on various geographic...

Resilient cities have received considerable attention in the public policy field in attempts to comply with global climate change commitments. In fact, resilient city is the key for the climate governance of the urban population of 6.3 billion people in 2050. The purpose of building resilient city is to decrease both the exposure and vulnerability....