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Seminar: Community Action to Promote Healthy Environments (CAPHE)
We held a seminar with speakers Barbara Israel and Tamsin Mitchell. Exposure to air pollution is linked to asthma and cardiovascular and respiratory disease, lost work and school days, and adverse birth outcomes. Air pollution is a long-standing concern for residents in Detroit, Michigan, who disproportionately experience high rates of environmentally-related diseases, especially those living in poverty and people of color. How can academics and communities partner to tackle these issues and improve the health outcomes of communities? Watch the video.
Posted in behaviour change and health and news & events and transport and video & audio on 19 April 2018 – 3:50 pmTwo new papers on transport by NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities members
A review of the inclusion of environmental and social costs in transport appraisal frameworks in four Anglophone countries, please read: Framing Mobility Investment Transport investment and carbon emissions in four Anglophone countries, please read: Investment for sustainable transport READ MORE
Posted in climate change and news & events and research and transport on 4 January 2018 – 9:39 amBook – Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities
A new book sets out important ideas for helping New Zealand cities resolve the challenges of providing quality, affordable housing, designing healthy transport systems and dealing with climate change. Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities has multiple authors and was READ MORE
Posted in behaviour change and climate change and energy and health and housing & building and media and news & events and NZ policy issues and research and transport and urban design and urban governance on 19 September 2017 – 4:41 pm8th International Conference on Energy & Environment of Residential Buildings
In 2018 the 8th International Conference on Energy and Environment of Residential Buildings comes to Wellington, New Zealand, with an overarching theme of housing sustainability in urban areas. Date: 19th – 21st November 2018 Venue: Wellington School of Medicine Conference Centre, University of Otago, 23 Mein St, Newtown, Wellington 6021, New Zealand
Posted in climate change and energy and health and housing & building and news & events and NZ policy issues and transport and urban design on 26 July 2017 – 4:23 pmMedia release: Progress slow on Wellington and Auckland’s carbon emissions
Monday, 19 June 2017 Associate Professor Ralph Chapman was lead author of a Victoria University of Wellington-led study which suggests that despite strong goals adopted by Wellington and Auckland, the cities still have a way to go in reducing carbon emissions from transport.
Posted in behaviour change and climate change and energy and health and news & events and NZ policy issues and research and transport on 22 June 2017 – 4:21 pm