Built Environment

What an Icelandic volcano can teach us about rapid social change

A new study by the Steps Centre at Sussex University and New Weather Institute points to historical evidence that the sort of rapid, large scale social and economic change needed in the face of climate destabilisation has occurred before and could do so again.

Built Environment

Zero carbon Britain: making it happen

Built Environment Manchester

Pay-as-you-feel restaurant to get permanent base in Manchester

Built Environment Local Government

A combined approach to clean air

Built Environment Communities

How to… develop food growing on a housing estate

Built Environment

Five ways to use landscape to teach, heal and regenerate

Built Environment Communities Good Local Economics

Five ideas for creating ‘good’ rural economies

Built Environment

Turning Scotland ‘green’

Built Environment

Public health can do more to tackle climate change

While climate change poses a huge threat to our health, tackling this issue also presents an opportunity. Last month, the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change was formed to bring together a number of health institutions – including the Royal College of General Practitioners, the Royal Society of Medicine, the BMJ and The Lancet, among others – to encourage better approaches to tackle climate change that also protect and promote public health.