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As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
for more than three-quarters of the world’s economy. As they expand, many of the world’s fast-growing cities end up building over floodplains, forests, and wetlands that could absorb rising waters during a storm or hold reservoirs of water during a drought.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
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Kate RAWORTH • La Théorie du donut
Barnes reports that Egyptian farmers in the Nile Valley maintain irrigation ditches not just to keep the water flowing, but also to “sustain communal ties with other farmers.” 20 Similar protocols prevail in Nikhil Anand’s Hydraulic City, in which the anthropologist shows how the maintenance of water infrastructures binds residents, plumbers, engin... See more
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care
from behaviors that create inequality, environmental
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
profits derived by extracting value from common resources and communities, including
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
Given its local- and project-specific nature, a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of adaptation strategies has been treated from a micro-perspective.