Climate Mapping For Resilience and Adaptation- Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation (CMRA) integrates information from across the federal government to help people consider their local exposure to climate-related hazards. People working in community organizations or public agencies can use the sit...
Public transport accessibility to urban and regional services has been found to relate to various social and economic processes, such as unemployment, transport mode choice, property prices, and public health. A frequent type of measures representing acc
“While individuals have little control over manufacturing processes or electricity generation, where one chooses to live and travel is their most significant environmental decision.” The same goes for communities, and yet trip distances reduction figures into few local government climate action plans. ...
Self-government, which is understood as total tax policy devolution and some capacity to act on policy and political devolution, is legitimised both in the Basque Autonomous Community and in the Statutory Community of Navarra. These are the only two regions in Spain with this unique "historic ...
improving public health and local environmental conditions. In Kampala, Uganda, between 2003 and 2015 the government worked with civil society organisations to increase the amount of human waste being treated by thirty times. In South Africa, the eThekwini municipality cross-subsidised water costs for...
clear thereARElocal activities which are “ARPA eligible” in the areas such infrastructure management, economic development, health and human services delivery, housing, transportation and community revitalization to name only a few. So who is leading the statewide local government ARPA geospatial ...
Wang M, Tao C (2019) Research on the efficiency of local government health expenditure in China and its spatial spillover effect. Sustainability 11(9):2469 Google Scholar Wei Z, Rosenb A, Fang X, Su Y, Zhang X (2015) Macro-economic cycles related to climate change in dynastic China. ...
Roots in the Sky will be the UK’s first rooftop forest. Plans include the creation of a sustainable office, commercial 【7】 community space that will have anurbanforest, 【8】 is open to the local community and the public. It will be one of the 【9】 (large)urbanroof gardens in Eu...
A local friend (and MIT PhD in EECS!) put solar panels on his roof six years ago, responding to the massive government handouts on offer at the time (thanks, fellow Massachusetts taxpayers!). Roughly half of the panels have now failed, casualties of squirrels, UV light, etc. ...
while Singapore imports their biggest names for the events. This year it partnered with the CFDA to bring over Naeem Khan and Self-Portrait. Plus, Indonesia has a long artisan and craft tradition that reveals itself in the intricate batik, ikat, and lace that find their way into local colle...