This brief article presents policy ideas from cities in emerging economies which have the potential to “build back better”. Considering the three strategic sectors of renewables (heating/cooling, power, transportation), we explore case studies to show policymakers from the Global South how they can go for renewables now.
Read MoreRebuilding will continue into the future, but requires commitment across levels of government to ensure scorched-earth urbanism, which is responsive to Australia’s long-term wellbeing. These initial years of disaster recovery must embed resilience into communities while ensuring cities are not exacerbating the factors that led to their destruction.
Read MoreWhile the government intends to take stricter measures in Delhi to decrease not only the contribution of Delhi to climate change (mitigation), but also, the impacts of climate change in Delhi (adaptation), it is vital that Delhi must create a reality where both top-bottom and bottom-up approaches are allowed to achieve a livable city for future generations.
Read MoreClimate change – undoubtedly brought on faster by globalization – is forcing architecture to rethink situationally its relationship with its near environment, which necessarily requires leaving the precepts of modernism and returning to a new vernacular architecture, namely one that is ecologically attentive to the heterogenous effects of climate change.
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