{"id":2253,"date":"2026-01-26T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:02:55","slug":"publication-in-sustainable-cities-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/2026\/01\/26\/publication-in-sustainable-cities-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication in Sustainable Cities &amp; Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our new publication led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/caroline-merheb-405305131\/\">Caroline Merheb<\/a> (Merheb et al., 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/sustainable-cities-and-society\/\">Sustainable Cities and Society<\/a>) explores how urban agrivoltaics\u2014combining solar panels with small-scale food production or turf\u2014reshape microclimates. We find that solar panels moderate temperatures, reduce water stress, and enhance the resilience of urban green spaces\u2014supporting both renewable energy and sustainable food systems. Forthcoming papers will examine crop yields, zones and temporal windows of productivity, irrigation savings, resilience to extreme events, tradeoffs, and pathways for scaling agrivoltaics across climate zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the paper:  <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scs.2025.107091\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scs.2025.107091<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" data-attachment-id=\"2254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/2026\/01\/26\/publication-in-sustainable-cities-society\/attachment\/1767115927966\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1345\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1767115927966\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966-1024x673.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966-1536x1009.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/files\/2026\/08\/1767115927966.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new publication led by Caroline Merheb (Merheb et al., 2026, Sustainable Cities and Society) explores how urban agrivoltaics\u2014combining solar panels with small-scale food production or turf\u2014reshape microclimates. We find that solar panels moderate temperatures, reduce water stress, and enhance the resilience of urban green spaces\u2014supporting both renewable energy and sustainable food systems. Forthcoming papers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/2026\/01\/26\/publication-in-sustainable-cities-society\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Publication in Sustainable Cities &amp; Society<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/ravi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}