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Principal Investigators: Siqi Zheng (lead)
Researchers: Yuchen Chai, Yichun Fan, Nicolas Guetta-Jeanrenaud, Ajkel Mino, Juan Palacios, Jianghao Wang
Year: 2022
Topics: Climate and Sustainable Real Estate
  • Theme 3: Urban and Real Estate Sustainability in Asia
    • Sub-Theme 1: Clean Air and Consumer Cities

This project evaluates the emotional toll of environmental threats using novel Natural Language Processing to extract Sentiment and Topics from Social Media.

Questions Answered

  • How did the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affect well-being as measured on social media?
  • What is the emotional toll of climate change?
  • How does air pollution impact people emotionally and does this vary in different situations?

Related Projects

  1. Transboundary Vegetation Fire Smoke and Expressed Sentiment
  2. Clean Air in Consumer Cities
  3. Environmental Quality and Real Estate 
  4. Air Pollution and Housing Values in Korea: A Hedonic Analysis with Long-range Transboundary Pollution as an Instrument 
  5. Towards a Zero-Emission and Resilient Real Estate Industry: Global Outlook and Asia’s Progress 

Global Sentiment