Articles

Turning the urban challenge into an opportunity

Marie Jaegly — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:50:00 +0200

Copenhagen, 2 July 2011. Up to 150 mm of rainfall in two hours – a city record since measurements began in the mid-1800s. Homes destroyed. Citizens and emergency services struggled to cope. This is one example of how excessive extreme weather events can affect a European capital – events that are expected more often under climate change.

Forests, health and climate change

Marie Jaegly — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:50:00 +0100

Forests are essential to our survival and well-being. Forests clean our air, our water, our soil and they regulate our climate, amongst many other things. Trees and forests are not always associated with urban landscapes. However, there too they provide invaluable, often invisible, services. Simply by acting as 'green oasis' in our concrete jungles, they offer recreation and health services for many European citizens.

The Year of the Forest: celebrating forests for people

Marie Jaegly — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:10:41 +0200

1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods. Forests are home to 300 million people worldwide

Health in a changing climate

Marie Jaegly — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:40:00 +0200

In August 2007, local health authorities in Italy detected a high number of cases of an unusual illness in Castiglione di Cervia and Castiglione di Ravenna, two small villages divided by a river. Almost 200 people were affected and one elderly man died (Angelini et al., 2007).

Forests and their forgotten communities

Gülcin KARADENIZ — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0200

In May 2008 a helicopter flew over unexplored parts of the Amazon in Acre State in Brazil, near the country’s border with Peru. Onboard were officials from Funai, the Brazilian government's Indian affairs department, on a mission to prove the existence of unknown Amazonian tribes who have never been in contact with the outside world. The few aerial pictures Funai has released show startled and intrigued people and their huts but do not reveal any landmarks which could be used to identify the exact location.

Soil — The forgotten resource

Marie Jaegly — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0200

From urban spaces to urban ecosystems