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Category Archives: Development
COVID-19 and climate resilience: Effective disaster prevention and management practices
Read time: 7 minutes Guest author: Olga Chepelianskaia (UNICITI) Editor’s note: This post shares the findings of two related articles that link the current crisis with climate resilience. These investigate: 1) human encroachment into natural ecosystems; and 2) resilience planning in … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Development, Disaster management, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged adaptation, blue green infrastructure, Climate change, deforestation, disaster, disaster planning, ecosystem services, emergency planning, green infrastructure, mitigation, preparedness, urban planning, urban resilience, urban sustainability
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Placemaking: toolkits & books
Read time: 3 minutes This post is a companion to a previous post: Placemaking: trends & people. This post focuses on toolkits, methods, books and handbooks for effective placemaking in a range of contexts, from healthy streets and neighbourhood planning … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Community engagement, Development, Disaster management, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Resources, Sustainability and resilience, Uncategorized
Tagged cities for people, cluster approach, disaster, Infrastructure, New Urbanism, open source, Participatory 3D modelling, participatory methods, place standard tool, place-making, Placemaking, regeneration, Resilience, resilient cities, urban regeneration, urban resilience, urban STEP
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Highlights from 2017
2017 was a year of continued growth for the blog, building on 2016. It saw 8,400 views and 5,700 visitors, for 19 published posts. The map of viewers grew compared to the previous year. As it happened, a common theme … Continue reading
Posted in Beyond planning, Climate change, Development, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Methodology and ethics, Planning, city, and society, Sustainability and resilience, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, Development, digital technology, dissemination, environment, minimalism, Resilience, smart cities, urban planning, well-being
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Planning around COP25: call for blog posts
The recent UN climate conference COP25 took place in Madrid last December. The conference fell short of consensus in many areas, although many technical issues were discussed at length. Effective implementation of the Paris Agreement will require significant effort to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, research quality and assessment, Beyond planning, Blogging, Climate change, Community engagement, Development, Dissemination, outreach, communication, Ecology, Economy, Heritage and Planning, Nature, Planning, city, and society, Public transport, Resilience, Sustainability and resilience, Sustainable consumption, Technology, Territory, landscape, land, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate change, disaster, Infrastructure, Resilience, urban design, urban planning
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How culture played a role in an environmental campaign
Guest author: Kedar Uttam This post presents an initiative that was undertaken by a civil society movement in Mangalore (South India) to fill the gap of cultural impact assessment which most environmental campaigns in that region miss out. It is … Continue reading
