Green cities grow from the roots

Royal climate change researcher Harriet Bulkeley doesn’t believe that directives from above cause us to change our behaviour. On the other hand, she believes in the creative and fumbling environmental experiments that she has seen popping up in cities around the world. Now she is going to study climate-friendly initiatives...

Vulnerability must be included in urban planning

Local authorities are increasingly realising that they cannot deal with the growing problem of weather-related disasters, and that time is running out. “Protecting cities from climate change and weather events needs to become routine”, says Christine Wamsler, who conducts research on how cities can stand up to variations in climate,...