Water Sensitive Urban Design
Floods are the most common natural hazard, accounting for 43% of hazard events from 1995 to 2015 and affecting 2.3 billion people.1 Already, urban flooding poses significant social and economic…
Mexico Hurricane Patricia
México.- protection is important to emphasize that we can not skip hydrometerological concerns. The magnitude of this phenomenon we have never seen in this country, there is a history of…
Lessons learned about lessons learned about forecasting El Niño and its impacts: Shades of Chaos
Should forecasting El Nino’s onset be distinguished from forecasting its post-onset locked-in phase? If an El Nino occurs in December 2014, is it the same one forecast earlier in 2014?…
Bridging the information gap: making local governance more responsive
Adaptation Learning Highways is a strategic process that fosters information and knowledge exchange between communities, scientist, and policy makers to inform the decision-making process and make it more inclusive. By…
GUEST EDITORIAL “Politicians need to get their act together on climate change“ Justus Morisse (Germany)
“Politicians need to get their act together on climate change.“ This quote from Chancellor Angela Merkel´s climate advisor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is almost two years old now and was originally…
GUEST EDITORIAL “Are Marvel Comics characters society’s current “Fix” for real world problems?” Robert Jay Ross, CCB, Boulder. Colorado
Guest Editor, Robert Ross, at CCB Boulder Colorado wrote an article called “Are Marvel Comics characters society’s current “Fix” for real world problems?”. Click here to download the pdf article…
Everybody is Somebody in the Zoo
Michael Glantz wrote a small children’s book called “Everybody is Somebody in the Zoo” with a moral that can be applied to anyone, “Be Yourself” at 2012. Click here to…
Water Resources Management and Waste water Management and Water Quality (Audio)
Mickey Glantz talked about Water Resources Management and Waste water Management and Water Quality at the Post-2015 Development Agenda Consultation on Water, 27 February 2013, Geneva, Switzerland. This is the…
El Niño weather threat to Australia, Asia this year
AN EL Niño weather pattern, which can parch Australia and parts of Asia while bringing rain to South America, may occur in coming months, says Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. International…