By mandating low-energy building standards in sales contracts of city-owned land, the City of Münster (Germany) caused a market transformation that led to 80 percent of all new buildings constructed in 2010, even those not built on city-…
A new online database - Aqueduct that allows policy makers and practitioners to measure, map and respond to geographically-explicit water risks and opportunities prior to making infrastructural investments.
A new online database - Aqueduct that allows policy makers and practitioners to measure, map and respond to geographically-explicit water risks and opportunities prior to making infrastructural investments.
A new online database - Aqueduct that allows policy makers and practitioners to measure, map and respond to geographically-explicit water risks and opportunities prior to making infrastructural investments.
In 2007, the Brisbane City Council issued Brisbane’s Plan for Action on Climate Change and Energy, which delineates the selected actions to be achieved in the short term (about 18 months) and the long term (more than five years).…
The case of Curitiba, Brazil, shows that cost is no barrier to ecological and economic urban planning, development, and management. Curitiba has developed a sustainable urban environment through integrated urban planning. To avoid…