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Overview

Anu Ramaswami is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and works primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Transportation, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Plant Science.

The research topics covered by Ramaswami include Urban Transport and Accessibility, Urban Green Space and Health, Environmental Impact and Sustainability, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Noise Effects and Management, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, as well as Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact.

Ramaswami has a substantial publication record in several notable academic journals. Frequent venues include Environmental Research Letters with 7 publications, Environmental Science & Technology with 6 publications, One Earth with 3 publications, Journal of Industrial Ecology with 3 publications, and Resources Conservation and Recycling with 3 publications.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Ramaswami are:

  • Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities, 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • Understanding subjective well-being: perspectives from psychology and public health, 2020, Public Health Reviews
  • From Low- to Net-Zero Carbon Cities: The Next Global Agenda, 2021, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
  • Exploring the Nonlinear Relationship between the Built Environment and Active Travel in the Twin Cities, 2020, Journal of Planning Education and Research
  • Is gardening associated with greater happiness of urban residents? A multi-activity, dynamic assessment in the Twin-Cities region, USA, 2020, Landscape and Urban Planning

Frequent co-authors in Ramaswami's work include:

  • Kangkang Tong
  • Kirti Das
  • Armistead G. Russell
  • Yingling Fan
  • Karen C. Seto

Their research has contributed to understanding complex interrelations between built environments, sustainability transitions, urban health, and transportation systems, with a multidisciplinary approach that bridges environmental science and social dimensions.

Best Publications

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities

    Christopher Kennedy;Julia Steinberger;Barrie Gasson;Yvonne Hansen

  • Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning

    Karen Seto;Shobhakar Dhakal;Anthony Bigio;Hilda Blanco

  • Methodology for inventorying greenhouse gas emissions from global cities

    Christopher Kennedy;Julia Steinberger;Barrie Gasson;Yvonne Hansen

  • Meta-principles for developing smart, sustainable, and healthy cities.

    Anu Ramaswami;Armistead G. Russell;Patricia J. Culligan;Karnamadakala Rahul Sharma

  • A demand-centered, hybrid life-cycle methodology for city-scale greenhouse gas inventories.

    Anu Ramaswami;Tim Hillman;Bruce Janson;Mark B Reiner

  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints and Energy Use Benchmarks for Eight U.S. Cities

    Tim Hillman;Anu Ramaswami

  • Remediating tar-contaminated soils at manufactured gas plant sites

    Richard G. Luthy;David A. Dzombak;Catherine A. Peters;Sujoy B. Roy

  • From Low- To Net-Zero Carbon Cities- To Next Global Agenda

    Karen C. Seto;Galina Churkina;Angel Hsu;Meredith Keller

  • Monitoring particulate matter in India: recent trends and future outlook

    Pallavi Pant;Raj M. Lal;Sarath K. Guttikunda;Armistead G. Russell

  • Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions

    Christopher A. Kennedy;Anu Ramaswami;Sebastian Carney

  • An urban systems framework to assess the trans-boundary food-energy-water nexus: implementation in Delhi, India

    Anu Ramaswami;Dana Boyer;Ajay Singh Nagpure;Andrew Fang

  • A Social‐Ecological‐Infrastructural Systems Framework for Interdisciplinary Study of Sustainable City Systems

    Anu Ramaswami;Christopher Weible;Deborah Main;Tanya Heikkila

  • Examining threshold effects of built environment elements on travel-related carbon-dioxide emissions

    Xinyi Wu;Tao Tao;Jason Cao;Yingling Fan

  • Implementing Trans-Boundary Infrastructure-Based Greenhouse Gas Accounting for Delhi, India

    Abel Chavez;Anu Ramaswami;Dwarakanath Nath;Ravi Guru

  • Articulating a trans-boundary infrastructure supply chain greenhouse gas emission footprint for cities: Mathematical relationships and policy relevance

    Abel Chavez;Anu Ramaswami

  • What metrics best reflect the energy and carbon intensity of cities? Insights from theory and modeling of 20 US cities

    Anu Ramaswami;Abel Chavez

  • Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability

    Hongtao Yi;Liming Suo;Ruowen Shen;Jiasheng Zhang

  • Wastewater treatment and reuse in urban agriculture: Exploring the food, energy, water, and health nexus in Hyderabad, India

    Leslie Miller-Robbie;Leslie Miller-Robbie;Anu Ramaswami;Anu Ramaswami;Priyanie Amerasinghe

  • Urban cross-sector actions for carbon mitigation with local health co-benefits in China

    Anu Ramaswami;Kangkang Tong;Andrew Fang;Raj M. Lal

  • Integrated Environmental Modeling: Pollutant Transport, Fate, and Risk in the Environment

    Anu Ramaswami;Jana B. Milford;Mitchell J. Small

  • Review on City-Level Carbon Accounting

    Guangwu Chen;Yuli Shan;Yuanchao Hu;Kangkang Tong

  • Interfacial films in coal tar nonaqueous-phase liquid-water systems

    Richard G. Luthy;Anuradha Ramaswami;Subhasis Ghoshal;Wolf Merkel;Wolf Merkel

Frequent Co-Authors

Armistead G. Russell
Armistead G. Russell Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard G. Luthy
Richard G. Luthy Stanford University
Christopher Kennedy
Christopher Kennedy University of Victoria
Richard C. Feiock
Richard C. Feiock Florida State University
Karen C. Seto
Karen C. Seto Yale University
Mitchell J. Small
Mitchell J. Small Carnegie Mellon University
Jana B. Milford
Jana B. Milford University of Colorado Boulder
Dabo Guan
Dabo Guan Tsinghua University
Julia K. Steinberger
Julia K. Steinberger University of Lausanne
Shuxiao Wang
Shuxiao Wang Tsinghua University

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