What is APRU?

Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) is an alliance of top research Universities in the Pacific Rim region, aiming to establish a platform for academic exchange and collaborative development. At present, APRU has 60 member universities, including 17 universities from China (including 3 in Hong Kong and 2 in Taiwan; and C9 universities have all joined in this alliance), which is the country with the largest number of joined universities, and followed by the United States with 12 universities, Australia and Japan with 6 universities each, and 5 universities from South Korea. 

APRU Official Website: https://apru.org/ 

What is the session this time?

APRU is going to hold a series of webinars, with the theme of "APRU SCL Webinar Series - Knowledge Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities and Landscapes" 

Introduction:  This webinar introduces new ways of understanding sustainable cities and landscapes. Our research framework rethinks the goals (Why: health) and means (What: infrastructure and How: cultivation and co-production) of sustainable development in the current moment of global crises (the COVID pandemic, climate change) and mobilization (SDGs and policy mobility). We use the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim to show how this new framework connects a variety of research topics. An integrated agenda that addresses “Why, What, and How” simultaneously will build mutually reinforcing inquiry and implementation, and co-learning spaces of policy mobility. We introduce three types of learning spaces where SCL researchers can play an active role; and we discuss potential issues in SCL research and evaluate the edited volume against those issues. We conclude by calling for collaborations between SCL researchers and policy actors to build information infrastructures via knowledge co-production.

Links: https://apru.org/event-page/apru-sustainable-cities-landscapes-live-webinar-series/session-4/

Speaker (Session 4): 

Prof Yizhao Yang, University of Oregon
Prof Anne Taufen, University of Washington

Time:

5PM, Sep. 27th, 2021 (Pacific Time)

Registration:

https://uoregon.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-vBV2O5vTz6R9LqIs1WOrQ 

More Info: 

Full list of the webinars: https://apru.org/event/apru-sustainable-cities-landscapes-live-webinar-series/