Changing patterns of heat and daylight in urban environments are creating growing inequalities, with climate-related shifts reshaping daily life and disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities.

Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) have examined how elemental conditions such as rising temperatures and changing daylight experiences influence the way people live, move and interact within cities - using London and Delhi as examples.

New research from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin offers a more broad-based approach to assessing how large financial institutions would weather crises. The new models, devised by Rui Gao, associate professor, and Stathis Tompaidis, professor — both in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management — rely less on big events and more on multifaceted data. In experimental runs, their test scenarios outperformed a regulator’s existing ones at identifying worst-case losses. “It’s not necessarily the large market moves, the headline days, that are the best days to use,” Tompaidis says. “It’s days where the stresses are complemented with each other.”