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For the Youth Olympic Games, Senegal has relied heavily on substantial direct public funding with support from its partners.
These mobile power systems could be a lifeline for remote, island and disaster-prone places.
Residents whose homes cluster along waterways, canals and shorelines have built organised systems for living with climate change.
Our transport infrastructure and logistics supply chains were built for a stable environmental and energy baseline that no longer exists.
Many levees built in the mid-1900s do not offer enough protection for today’s storms, and small rural communities in particular struggle to afford needed upgrades.
The federal government has softened its initial renewables-only stance.
Recovery time between climate disasters makes a huge difference to the consequences affecting local people.
It is an unenviable position for a government to have potentially misallocated tens of billions of dollars to poorly selected infrastructure.
A new study reveals what unsustainable construction practices are costing our climate – and what must change.
Tighter regulation and careful planning will ensure our public chargers actually work.
Drought and a ruptured pipeline have forced Puerto Rico into revolving water shut-offs. For many people, the disruption started years earlier, as did loss of faith in the utility.
The success of green roofs depends on more than just good intentions and engineering – they need long-term love and care.
Biodiversity policies fail because governments lack the safeguards, accountability mechanisms and political commitment needed to implement them consistently.
The success of Kibera’s transformation will not be measured by the number of apartment blocks completed.
Iraq has pursued friendly relations with many countries who are themselves at odds. The strategy has lots of upside for war-torn Iraq – but holds key risks as well.
An expert explains how insulation works and why it matters.
A group of researchers explored governance models in ten countries to see whether they help plan and deliver large-scale infrastructure works more responsibly and efficiently.
Why it’s still difficult to accurately predict earthquakes.
The ‘Mother Road’ has long symbolized freedom and reinvention. But its history reveals a more complicated story shaped by migration, segregation and the highways that eventually circumvented it.
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Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Executive Director, Better Infrastructure Initiative, John Grill Centre for Project Leadership, University of Sydney
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Director of Energy Studies, University of Florida
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Proprietor - Hale Consulting, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Co-Director, UNU Hub on Empowering Communities to Adapt to Environmental Change, United Nations University; University of Calgary
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Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University