Big Data and Sustainability

The recent Big Ideas for Sustainable Prosperity research conference brought together some of the world’s preeminent environment & economy thinkers for a two day research conference to share knowledge and think big about Policy Innovation for Greening Growth.

In the video presentation below, Dr. Matthew E. Kahn argues that the combination of Big Data and field experiments can sharply improve urban quality of life. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Public Policy. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining the UCLA faculty in January 2007, he taught at Columbia and the Fletcher School at Tufts University.

 

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