Author Archives: Aleksandar Janicijevic

European Urban Resilience Forum

Since 2013, the European Urban Resilience Forum – driven by ICLEI Europe and the European Environment Agency – has offered a unique platform where city representatives and stakeholders from various local and regional institutions come together to exchange and discuss strategies and actions to adapt to climate change and build urban resilience. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on May 24, 2020

What is i-Tree Eco?

i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban and rural forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree tools can help strengthen forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying forest structure and the environmental benefits that trees provide. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on May 5, 2020

Environmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19

There are millions of viruses and bacteria out there that reside in wild animals and can potentially infect humans, and these emerging diseases are on the rise everywhere as humans disrupt ecosystems and exploit animal habitat across the globe. We are living in an age of pandemics, and the next one — let’s call it […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on April 27, 2020

COVID-19 RELIEF AVAILABLE TO BUSINESSES

Hello Members, this is not directly related to resilience but might be still of interest to some of us. I just finished this document for the company I am working for, D&G Accounting Services and they are making this available to the public. This a a complete list of Availability, Description, Qualification/ Eligibility Requirements and […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on April 14, 2020

A Safe and Just Space for Humanity

Instead of focusing on the growth of the economy, Kate Raworth focuses on a model where there can be ensured that everyone on earth has access to their basic needs, such as adequate food and education, while not limiting opportunities for future generations by protecting our ecosystem. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on April 12, 2020

World in Recovery Mode

Maybe it is time now when we are performing “physical distancing” and some of us even “social isolation”, to make some rethinking about where we are going and take seriously fact how restrictions in movement and industrial activity, economy, and especially urban life is affecting climate change and state of almost “Uninhabitable Earth” can quickly […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 24, 2020

The Uninhabitable Earth

I just finished reading The Uninhabitable Earth – Life After Warming, by David Wallace-Wells, recommended to me by my daughter Una, also a member of our group. I am so impressed by this “brilliant and unsparing analysis of a nightmare that is no longer distant future.” In my opinion this is a book that everybody […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 1, 2020

Climate Change Scenarios

In the present study, a new downscaling technique is developed and applied to the Azores and Madeira islands. The technique is tested against observed climatology, constituting, in that case, an alternative to non-physical interpolating techniques widely used. The quest to investigate the impact of future global warming due to greenhouse gases concentration increases on the […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on February 26, 2020