ESSAYS | POINTS OF VIEW
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Climate Justice and The Right To The City: A Proposal for Climate Change Action
Climate action needs a new approach Ravaging fires and flooding, widespread ecological destruction, increasing dispossession and displacement: year after year, climate change action shows its tragic shortcomings because people and socio-territorial inequalities are not at the center of commitments, policies, and follow-up mechanisms. As long as global agreements and national and local agendas neglect serious…
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Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Cities From the Global South
It’s December 12, 2035. I woke up in my apartment, in the middle of the city and there was a mountain. Yes, a mountain with a forest, greenery everywhere. I opened the windows and I could listen to the birds singing. I could smell the moist ground, the same smell that happens when it’s about…
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Economy, Employment, Environment. Can We Have It All?
There is a close relationship between the three Es―economy, employment, and environment. Economic growth and jobs rely heavily on environmental resources, but a myopic focus on either of these aspects often results in environmental degradation. Green jobs have been seen as a way to buffer the adverse effects of economic development on the environment (ILO…
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ROUNDTABLES | GLOBAL DISCUSSIONS
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The Urban Art Laboratories: During The Nature of Cities Festival 2024, a series of conjunct artistic and ecological actions took place in various parts of the world. What happened?
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PROJECTS | ART, SCIENCE & ACTION, TOGETHER
SPROUT POETRY JOURNAL
ISSUE 4: CARE
This latest issue includes works that interrogate the modes of engaging with others in (urban and natural) space that can speak to the interrelated dimensions of care.
NBS COMICS: NATURE TO SAVE THE WORLD
26 Visions for Urban Equity, Inclusion and Opportunity
Now a global project with over ONE MILLION readers, we invite comic creators from all over the world to imagine comics about how people and nature might thrive together. Nature-based Solutions (NBS) Comics empowers creators to combine science and storytelling.
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