Author Archives: Aleksandar Janicijevic

Management of Urban Infrastructures – On Line course

100% online learning from the world’s best universities and companies, from courses to degrees. Several of them are dealing with sustainability, efficiency and, of course most interesting, resilience. Following course is just one example, recommended for anybody, especially young generation. I am suggesting to explore other courses, few very interesting for our cause, and all […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on January 3, 2019

Success of COP24 in Katowice – We have a global climate agreement

The Global Climate UN – COP24 in Katowice ended in success. Negotiators from 196 countries and the European Union worked for two weeks on the Katowice Climate Package, implementing the Paris Agreement. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on December 15, 2018

Visualising world population density

This project wields data from the Global Human Settlement Layer, which uses “satellite imagery, census data, and volunteering geographic information” to create population density maps. Visualising world population density as an interactive multi-scale map using the global human settlement population layer. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on December 13, 2018

Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth

Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh explains why mindfulness and a spiritual revolution rather than economics is needed to protect nature and limit climate change. … Move beyond concept of the “environment” Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on December 10, 2018

David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon

The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland. The naturalist was chosen to represent the world’s people in addressing delegates of almost 200 nations who are in Katowice to negotiate how to turn pledges made in the 2015 Paris […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on December 3, 2018

Financing Civic Futures – Building Civic Capital

On the occasion of the inaugural Future Cities Summit, we are sharing this provocation. At the Summit we have heard multifaceted perspectives on the great transition that our cities are facing, from addressing the challenges of the future of work, inequality, planning, affordability, climate change, resilience and next generation governance to name but a few. […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on November 30, 2018

25 Great Ideas of New Urbanism

This might not be directly related to Resilience 2 to 1, but material explored here is very valuable source of new ideas. [A.J.] The 25 ideas explored here highlight the ongoing impact of New Urbanism on communities and the built environment. Not all of these ideas were invented by new urbanists, but new urbanists have […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on November 10, 2018

Huge responsibility for the world

Saw this just now. Seems Canada has a huge responsibility for the world’s remaining biocapacity. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals Five countries hold 70% of world’s last wildernesses, map … www.theguardian.com A Xikrin woman walks back to her village from the Cateté River in Brazil. Photograph: Taylor Weidman/Getty Images Just five countries hold 70% of the world’s remaining untouched […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on October 31, 2018