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The Green Dividend of Social Sustainability
Freya Kristensen is the most recent addition to our Affiliated Researcher Program. A PhD candidate in the department Geography at Simon Fraser University and a researcher with the SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development, her work examines how international municipal … Continue reading
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Sustainable Urban Resilience: A Contradiction in Terms?
A great blog from Alex Aylett, our Research Director. ~ ~ David Bello, Associate Editor over at Scientific American, has an interesting post up today looking at the supposed tensions between “resilience” and “sustainability”. His argument in a nutshell is … Continue reading
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Urban Agriculture and Resilient Food Systems in Dar es Salaam
This week, Afton Halloran (SCI Affiliated Researcher) will be in Göttingen, Germany, presenting the results of her research on urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam. Afton’s work will be featured as part of the annual Conference on Tropical and Subtropical … Continue reading
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Tagged food security, Urban Agriculture
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Surviving in a Floodplain: Adapting to Risk and Vulnerability in Dakar
Clara Ganemtore (SCI Affiliated Researcher) has recently completed her field work on flood risk responses in Dakar (Senegal). In this entry she provides an overview of her principle case study site (the suburb of Pekine) as well as a preview … Continue reading
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Building a Holistic Measure of Urban Sustainability
Welcome to Li Shen, the latest addition to our Affiliated Researcher Program. Li is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Saskatchewan. Using an innovative combination of GIS techniques, statistical analysis and survey … Continue reading
Flood Risk and Urban Resilience in Dakar
Clara Ganemtore is SCI’s most recent addition to our Affiliated Researcher Program. She is studying regional and urban planning at the London School of Economics. Her work centres on urban resilience to environmental threats. Based on a case study of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dakar, flood risk management, Senegal, urban planning, Urban resilience
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Dar es Salaam’s Contribution to Regional Food Systems Planning
Afton Halloran is continuing her research on urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) as part of our Affiliated Researcher Program. ~ ~ Why do we actually live in cities? That question was posed by architect Carolyn Steel during the … Continue reading
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Tagged Afton Halloran, Urban Agriculture
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Farming in the City: Make environmental legislation flexible!
(Translated by Afton Halloran from the original comment in Politiken, Denmark’s largest newspaper) By Afton Halloran, Agricultural Development MSc student, Ole Fryd, Assistant Professor, Forest and Landscape, and Jakob Magid, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, University of Copenhagen ~ ~ Copenhagen’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Afton Halloran, Copenhagen, Denmark, Urban Agriculture
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Growing the City: Institutionalizing and Legitimizing Urban Agriculture in Copenhagen, Denmark and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This is the first posting of SCI’s newly launched Affiliated Researcher Program. Led by Alex Aylett, SCI’s Research Director, the ARP is a collaborative initiative that brings together top-level international graduate students with the projects and expertise of SCI network … Continue reading
SCI Unveils New Research Program
We are very pleased to introduce Alex Aylett, SCI’s new Research Director. Based in Montreal, he is a sustainability researcher and consultant, and a Trudeau Scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He has worked on urban … Continue reading
