With cities continuously more threatened by climate change-induced disasters, urban planning’s reflex response is to protect cities against nature. But what if...
One of the biggest challenges to climate action is not only understanding the risks of flooding, extreme heat and other challenges, but how your community might...
Cities are on the sharp end of a range of risks from criminal violence, terrorism and war to demographic pressures, to climate and environmental change. Coastal...
We live in an urbanizing world. Up to two-thirds of the world’s population – some six billion people – may live in cities by 2050.Cities have emerged as first...
As climate variability increases over the next decades, we have to dramatically rethink how we govern extractive industry, water resources, and environmental...
The changing climate brings about more intense floods in cities in India and all around the world. It seems, however, that urban planning is still neglecting...
One of the pivotal points of discussion between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the latter’s visit to India...
In May 2011, two weeks before I was scheduled to start research in the region, a Mongol herder named Mergen was hit by a mining truck while protecting his...
Haze from Indonesian fires has again blanketed Singapore and Malaysia. Prevention strategies are improving, but will likely take years to become truly effective...
Diplomacy surrounding climate change happens on numerous levels. The current definition of climate diplomacy largely centres on the negotiations by state...
It is neither acceptable nor possible for European countries to achieve energy security on the back of a fossil fuel strategy that will undermine democracy...
Karachi, the world’s second largest city by population, is emerging from the grips of a deadly heatwave. A persistent low pressure system camped over the...
Global cities like Singapore have the unique opportunity to contribute in the learning from and sharing of best practices in urban sustainability and...
When the first wave of protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014, it looked as if unrest might spread to...