by Willie Khoo | Dec 11, 2019 | Data, Featured, Urban Index
The Guggenheim Museum in the City of Bilbao, Spain, is one of the most iconic buildings of modern architecture. Coiled along the Nervion river under the Basque country sun, it is a writhing, breathtaking contortion of titanium, stone, and glass, all polish and sheen,...
by Yani Zeng | Dec 2, 2016 | China
Low-carbon development initiatives are proliferating in Chinese cities in line with the country’s National New-type of Urbanization Plan (2014-2020), yet there are major uncertainties regarding explicit targets, implementation strategies, and progress tracking. The...
by Angel Hsu | Mar 6, 2016 | Climate, Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
This post originally appeared on Scientific American. Photo credit: A forest in Madagascar has been slashed and burned for planting corn By Frank Vassen/Flickr under Creative Commons license. This post was co-written and compiled by Don Mosteller, Amy Weinfurter, and...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 19, 2012 | Sights
My first stop when I came back to Beijing was to meet with our partners at the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, who we collaborated with on the “Towards a China Environmental Performance Index” project. I was excited to hear about all of the...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 11, 2012 | Sights
The above quote is from an article in the Global Times regarding the recent environmental protests against a heavy-metals refinery in Shifang, which is located in Sichuan province. Thousands of Chinese citizens have taken to the streets to protest, and it’s...
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