If infrastructure is to meet the needs and challenges of an uncertain future, we need to move beyond the AAA ratings mindset and aim for net-positive social and ecological outcomes as well.
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Greening cities that are becoming denser is a major challenge. City-dwellers’ health benefits from both well-designed green spaces and urban density, so we must manage the tensions between them.
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Recently published research has found that the concentration of poorer people in hotter places is a real problem for cities’ capacity to cope with climate change.
As the U.S. braces for potential landfall of Hurricane Matthew, our experts weigh in on hurricanes, the need for resilient infrastructure and climate change.
Climate change stands to hit Africa the hardest. That’s why green industrialisation is critical to help keep the continent’s greenhouse gas emissions low.
Cutting-edge urban foresters argue not only for the intrinsic value of trees but also for the many economic and health benefits.
Green infrastructure can be delivered relatively easily using existing planning processes. The main obstacle could be psychological: planners are wary of disruption to embedded practices.
It seems like a ‘no brainer’ to use urban greening to help cities adapt to increasing heat, but the uptake of green infrastructure, such as trees and vegetated roofs, surfaces and walls, is slow. Why?
When communities are surveyed, green infrastructure is usually high on their list of urban planning priorities. But until now planners have lacked tools to quantify the long-term benefits.
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Research Assistant, School of Ecosystem & Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Research Fellow in the Victorian Institute for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University
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Academic, Landscape Architecture and Urban Ecology, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Illinois Research Climatologist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Deputy Head of School, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle
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Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources and Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
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Enseignant chercheur, Université de Rouen Normandie
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Professor and Head of School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle