Climate justice and the built environment

Garnaut Climate Change Review: Transport, Planning and the Built Environment

Preamble GAMUT Welcomes the Garnaut Climate Change Review Initiative At the Australasian Centre for the Governance and Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT) we welcome and support the government's initiative in seeking to consider, through the independent review process of the Garnaut Climate Change Review (hereafter GCCR) the need for climate change mitigation strategies across all industry se...

Climate Change Impacts on the Built Environment in Nigeria

The populations, infrastructure and ecology of cities are at risk from the impacts of climate change which affect urban ventilation and cooling, urban drainage and flood risk and water resources. Built areas exert considerable influence over their local climate and environment, and urban populations are already facing a range of weather-related risks such as heat waves, water pollution and floo...

structural elements and the built environment

built environment does not “simply appear overnight, like a movie-set springing up on a vacant lot, but has to be produced”.thus, the first point in dealing with such an environment is considered to be the tracing of time in the evaluation of the city and keeping in mind that the whole is more than its parts. the last point becomes naturally understood when the process of city building is p...

Justice and Climate Change

Climate change raises complex issues of science, economics, and politics; it also raises difficult issues of justice. Poor nations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, in part because they are poor. Wealthy nations have less at risk, in part because they are wealthy. It is both tempting and plausible to suggest that for either emissions reductions or adaptation, wealthy nations owe...

Climate Justice