Peter John Marcotullio
Biographic Data
| ID | 2763588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter John Marcotullio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter John |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcotullio |
| SIGNATURE | MARCOTULLIO P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8133-1204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Extreme Weather and Mortality of Vulnerable Urban Populations
Highlights This is the first study to examine the link between extreme temperatures and unclaimed deaths in New York City. Daily air and wet-bulb temperatures were paired with public burial records. A 1°F hotter 7-day summer period predicts 1.2% more unclaimed deaths. Decedents on extreme heat days in NYC were up to three times as likely to go unclaimed
Imported solar photovoltaics contributed to health and climate benefits in the United States
Local power outages, heat, and community characteristics in New York City
Urban policy adaptation toward managing increasing pluvial flooding events under climate change
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heavy rainfall events. In urban areas, these cloudbursts cause localized flooding and disrupt urban life. However, there is no universal method for urban rainfall adaptation. Here, we demonstrate that while six developed cities; New York City, Vancouver, Sydney, Auckland, Copenhagen and Amsterdam, each present a different management approach toward cloudburst events, these six cities als…
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
Energy and material flows of megacities
Significance Our quantification of energy and material flows for the world’s 27 megacities is a major undertaking, not previously achieved. The sheer magnitude of these flows (e.g., 9% of global electricity, 10% of gasoline; 13% of solid waste) shows the importance of megacities in addressing global environmental challenges. In aggregate the resource flows through megacities are consistent with scaling laws for cities. Statistical relations are e…
A Top-Down Regional Assessment of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Europe
Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes that are currently addressed separately in the urban sustainability and land change literatures can lead to incorrect conclusions and misleading results when they are not examined jointly: the traditional system of land classification that is based on discrete categor…
Scaling the Urban Environmental Challenge
Urbanization and economic growth are the two quantifiable trends of recent world history most closely associated with conventional ‘development’. Like development itself, they represent disputed concepts. The use of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ to describe different forms of human settlement is now being called into question by new indicators and settlement patterns (Champion and Hugo, 2004). Both the measures and meanings of economic growth are also bein…
Understanding energy transitions
Global sustainability is increasingly influenced by economic growth and social change in non-OECD countries, especially in Asia.Growth models suggest that industrializing economies will become first relatively more resource-and pollution-intensive, before becoming more resource-efficient and less polluting, following the pattern of higher-income economies.This 'environmental convergence' is assumed to parallel economic convergence during processe…
The geography of urban greenhouse gas emissions in Asia
Changes in Marine Seafood Consumption in Tokyo, Japan
This article examines the historical trends of Tokyo's marine seafood consumption and tensions over how to promote urban sustainable consumption. Despite overwhelming evidence that global fish stocks are depleting, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has not advanced an agenda to directly support sustainable seafood consumption. In this vacuum national government policies, increasing wealth, changes in preferences and private initiatives have promo…
City-to-city networks
Urban water-related environmental transitions in Southeast Asia
Potential futures for road transportation CO 2 emissions in the Asia Pacific
Will future transportation carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions per capita in Asia Pacific economies follow historical trends of the now developed world? Evidence to date is inconclusive. A comparison at similar income levels (purchasing power parity) between recent emissions in Asia Pacific countries and historical emissions in developed countries suggests diverging patterns. (A) High‐income Asia economies (Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore –‘low emitt…
Comparison of Energy Transitions in the United States and Developing and Industrializing Economies
Faster Growth of Road Transportation CO2 Emissions in Asia Pacific Economies
Researchers have identified how in some rapidly developing countries, road and aviation transportation CO2 emissions are rising faster (over time) when compared to the experiences of the USA at similar levels of economic development. While suggestive of how experiences of the rapidly developing Asia are different from those of the developed world these studies have used only one developed country for comparison, the USA, arguably a special case w…
Evaluating city-to-city cooperation
Urban environmental transitions and urban transportation systems
This article argues that the urban environmental transition as experienced by rapidly developing Asian cities is significantly different from that experienced by the West. Urban environmental transition theory suggests that cities undergo a series of environmental challenges as they develop. At first, the priority environmental challenges are those relating to the 'brown' agenda, including water supply, sewage and sanitation issues. As cities ind…
Globalisation, Urban Form and Environmental Conditions in Asia-Pacific Cities
Within the Asia-Pacific region, over the past few decades, cities have undergone massive transformations. These changes were underpinned by globalisation flows and new technologies and mediated by, inter alia, political institutions and policies. Given the seemingly ubiquitous nature and power of these influences, studies of emerging urban patterns within the region suggest that cities are growing more alike. At the same time, while cities articu…
Urban Implications of Information Technology/New Electronics for Developing Countries
By providing a conceptual framework for urban implications of information technology/new electronics (IT/NE) across developing nations, we suggest that the rise of IT/NE has a mixed effect within and across spaces, nations, and regions. The new technologies have created a new economic paradigm that is affecting virtually every aspect of production and consumption. Acting as a technological wave, IT/NE is intensifying social, economic, and spatial…
Arrested growth and urban sustainability in the Asia Pacific
City managers throughout the Asia Pacific region are turning to the concept of sustainability in order to guide urban growth. This research note reviews the dominant contemporary urban and regional planning concepts promoted during the last few decades, shows how the financial crises challenged this mode of thinking and led to the adoption of sustainable urban development policies
Asian urban sustainability in the era of globalization
Globalisation and Urban Transformations in the Asia-Pacific Region
In the Asia-Pacific context, over the past several decades, economic globalisation permitted the deepening of intrafirm trade, foreign direct investment and the division of labour between head offices and their subsidiaries abroad, thus effecting a greater interdependency between the developed nations and developing nations in the region. The linkages of this emerging transnational economy are embedded in the region's cities through the world cit…
Evaluating city-to-city cooperation
City-to-city networks
Comparison of Energy Transitions in the United States and Developing and Industrializing Economies
The geography of urban greenhouse gas emissions in Asia
Asian urban sustainability in the era of globalization
Globalisation, Urban Form and Environmental Conditions in Asia-Pacific Cities
Within the Asia-Pacific region, over the past few decades, cities have undergone massive transformations. These changes were underpinned by globalisation flows and new technologies and mediated by, inter alia, political institutions and policies. Given the seemingly ubiquitous nature and power of these influences, studies of emerging urban patterns within the region suggest that cities are growing more alike. At the same time, while cities articu…
Understanding energy transitions
Global sustainability is increasingly influenced by economic growth and social change in non-OECD countries, especially in Asia.Growth models suggest that industrializing economies will become first relatively more resource-and pollution-intensive, before becoming more resource-efficient and less polluting, following the pattern of higher-income economies.This 'environmental convergence' is assumed to parallel economic convergence during processe…
Urban environmental transitions and urban transportation systems
This article argues that the urban environmental transition as experienced by rapidly developing Asian cities is significantly different from that experienced by the West. Urban environmental transition theory suggests that cities undergo a series of environmental challenges as they develop. At first, the priority environmental challenges are those relating to the 'brown' agenda, including water supply, sewage and sanitation issues. As cities ind…
Urban water-related environmental transitions in Southeast Asia
Arrested growth and urban sustainability in the Asia Pacific
City managers throughout the Asia Pacific region are turning to the concept of sustainability in order to guide urban growth. This research note reviews the dominant contemporary urban and regional planning concepts promoted during the last few decades, shows how the financial crises challenged this mode of thinking and led to the adoption of sustainable urban development policies
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
A Top-Down Regional Assessment of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Europe
Globalisation and Urban Transformations in the Asia-Pacific Region
In the Asia-Pacific context, over the past several decades, economic globalisation permitted the deepening of intrafirm trade, foreign direct investment and the division of labour between head offices and their subsidiaries abroad, thus effecting a greater interdependency between the developed nations and developing nations in the region. The linkages of this emerging transnational economy are embedded in the region's cities through the world cit…
Asian urban sustainability in the era of globalization
Urban Implications of Information Technology/New Electronics for Developing Countries
By providing a conceptual framework for urban implications of information technology/new electronics (IT/NE) across developing nations, we suggest that the rise of IT/NE has a mixed effect within and across spaces, nations, and regions. The new technologies have created a new economic paradigm that is affecting virtually every aspect of production and consumption. Acting as a technological wave, IT/NE is intensifying social, economic, and spatial…
Arrested growth and urban sustainability in the Asia Pacific
City managers throughout the Asia Pacific region are turning to the concept of sustainability in order to guide urban growth. This research note reviews the dominant contemporary urban and regional planning concepts promoted during the last few decades, shows how the financial crises challenged this mode of thinking and led to the adoption of sustainable urban development policies
Urban environmental transitions and urban transportation systems
This article argues that the urban environmental transition as experienced by rapidly developing Asian cities is significantly different from that experienced by the West. Urban environmental transition theory suggests that cities undergo a series of environmental challenges as they develop. At first, the priority environmental challenges are those relating to the 'brown' agenda, including water supply, sewage and sanitation issues. As cities ind…
Globalisation, Urban Form and Environmental Conditions in Asia-Pacific Cities
Within the Asia-Pacific region, over the past few decades, cities have undergone massive transformations. These changes were underpinned by globalisation flows and new technologies and mediated by, inter alia, political institutions and policies. Given the seemingly ubiquitous nature and power of these influences, studies of emerging urban patterns within the region suggest that cities are growing more alike. At the same time, while cities articu…
Faster Growth of Road Transportation CO2 Emissions in Asia Pacific Economies
Researchers have identified how in some rapidly developing countries, road and aviation transportation CO2 emissions are rising faster (over time) when compared to the experiences of the USA at similar levels of economic development. While suggestive of how experiences of the rapidly developing Asia are different from those of the developed world these studies have used only one developed country for comparison, the USA, arguably a special case w…
Evaluating city-to-city cooperation
Urban water-related environmental transitions in Southeast Asia
Potential futures for road transportation CO 2 emissions in the Asia Pacific
Will future transportation carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions per capita in Asia Pacific economies follow historical trends of the now developed world? Evidence to date is inconclusive. A comparison at similar income levels (purchasing power parity) between recent emissions in Asia Pacific countries and historical emissions in developed countries suggests diverging patterns. (A) High‐income Asia economies (Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore –‘low emitt…
Comparison of Energy Transitions in the United States and Developing and Industrializing Economies
City-to-city networks
Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
This paper introduces urban land teleconnections as a conceptual framework that explicitly links land changes to underlying urbanization dynamics. We illustrate how three key themes that are currently addressed separately in the urban sustainability and land change literatures can lead to incorrect conclusions and misleading results when they are not examined jointly: the traditional system of land classification that is based on discrete categor…
Scaling the Urban Environmental Challenge
Urbanization and economic growth are the two quantifiable trends of recent world history most closely associated with conventional ‘development’. Like development itself, they represent disputed concepts. The use of ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ to describe different forms of human settlement is now being called into question by new indicators and settlement patterns (Champion and Hugo, 2004). Both the measures and meanings of economic growth are also bein…
Understanding energy transitions
Global sustainability is increasingly influenced by economic growth and social change in non-OECD countries, especially in Asia.Growth models suggest that industrializing economies will become first relatively more resource-and pollution-intensive, before becoming more resource-efficient and less polluting, following the pattern of higher-income economies.This 'environmental convergence' is assumed to parallel economic convergence during processe…
The geography of urban greenhouse gas emissions in Asia
Changes in Marine Seafood Consumption in Tokyo, Japan
This article examines the historical trends of Tokyo's marine seafood consumption and tensions over how to promote urban sustainable consumption. Despite overwhelming evidence that global fish stocks are depleting, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has not advanced an agenda to directly support sustainable seafood consumption. In this vacuum national government policies, increasing wealth, changes in preferences and private initiatives have promo…
A Top-Down Regional Assessment of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Europe
Energy and material flows of megacities
Significance Our quantification of energy and material flows for the world’s 27 megacities is a major undertaking, not previously achieved. The sheer magnitude of these flows (e.g., 9% of global electricity, 10% of gasoline; 13% of solid waste) shows the importance of megacities in addressing global environmental challenges. In aggregate the resource flows through megacities are consistent with scaling laws for cities. Statistical relations are e…
Extreme events and climate adaptation‐mitigation linkages
It has become increasingly clear that cities will have to simultaneously undertake both adaptation and mitigation in response to accelerating climate change and the growing demands for meaningful climate action. Here we examine the connections between climate mitigation and climate adaptation, specifically, between low‐carbon energy systems and extreme events. The article specifically addresses the question, how do responses to extreme climate ri…
The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa
Urban policy adaptation toward managing increasing pluvial flooding events under climate change
Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heavy rainfall events. In urban areas, these cloudbursts cause localized flooding and disrupt urban life. However, there is no universal method for urban rainfall adaptation. Here, we demonstrate that while six developed cities; New York City, Vancouver, Sydney, Auckland, Copenhagen and Amsterdam, each present a different management approach toward cloudburst events, these six cities als…
Local power outages, heat, and community characteristics in New York City
Imported solar photovoltaics contributed to health and climate benefits in the United States
Extreme Weather and Mortality of Vulnerable Urban Populations
Highlights This is the first study to examine the link between extreme temperatures and unclaimed deaths in New York City. Daily air and wet-bulb temperatures were paired with public burial records. A 1°F hotter 7-day summer period predicts 1.2% more unclaimed deaths. Decedents on extreme heat days in NYC were up to three times as likely to go unclaimed
Geography (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Business (10 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Urbanization (6 works)