The Sustainable Mobility Project 2.0 aims to accelerate progress towards delivering universal access to safe and low-impact mobility for both goods and people. The project is developing a process and tools to be used with demonstrator-cities to support the development …
State of Environmental Migration 2014 is the fourth of the annual series of publications aiming to enhance understanding of natural disasters, sudden natural onset events and slow onset events, and their links to human mobility. It is published by the …
The Global Sustainable Investment Review 2014 is the second report to collate the results from the market studies by regional sustainable investment forums from Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, Asia (ex Japan) and Japan.
In more than forty years of work in cities around the globe, architect and urbanist Jaime Lerner has found that changes to a community don’t need to be large-scale and expensive to have a transformative impact. In Urban Acupuncture, Lerner …
The ND-GAIN Index summarises a country’s vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges in combination with its readiness to improve resilience. Australia’s ranking was 6 from the 178 countries indexed.
How do cities take effective decisions in the management of climate change impacts and in organising their functions, communities and economies so as to reduce emissions? This book chapter explores these decisions in the City of Cape Town, South Africa.
resilience.io is an open-source, cloud-based regional platform, which gathers satellite/earth observation, open government and crowd-sourced economic, social and environmental data together in one place, in an understandable, palatable and visual format.
Systematic reviews are powerful tools for summarising evidence to guide policy. They reduce the influence of author bias while considering bias in primary studies. This open access research summarises how to conduct systematic reviews and the rationale for each stage, …
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Applications are now open for Round 3 of the Green Army Program, and close on 17 March 2015. Community organisations, environment groups, Indigenous organisations, local councils and others are encouraged to apply for projects in their region. The approved projects …
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The Global Calculator is a free and interactive tool that helps you to understand the link between our lifestyles, the energy we use, and the consequences for our climate. It is aimed at anyone interested in exploring what a low-carbon …
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