Some of her latest collaborations is regarding "urban nature" and the livability of cities.
May 1, 2016
Environmental Education and Advancing Urbanization (click here)
By David Maddox, New York City; Harini Nagendra, Bangalor; Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm and Alex Russ, Ithaca.
Cities—their design and how we live in them—will be key in our struggle for sustainability and, indeed, our future. As cities grow, as they are newly created, and as more and more people choose or require them as places to live, our decisions about urban design and city-building will determine the outcomes of long-term challenges related to resilience, sustainability, livability, and justice. Rather than being the essential cause of the global environmental dangers we face, cities will be central to success in overcoming these dangers. Such success will be based on science and policy, but also on widespread public engagement with and understanding of both the challenges and the potential solutions found in building cities. Environmental education can play a critical role in fostering public engagement, through clarifying and transmitting the challenges, values, actions, and methods of sustainable, resilient, livable, and just cities.
What is urban?...
Does your urban and suburban environment have an ecological consultant to assist with livable cities and towns? State universities should have people who know the dynamics and can help.
Consumers need to be educated with plenty of questions for those that help.
