18 Dec 2014
As part of its Urban October celebrations, UN-Habitat has launched “Paper City”, a stop-motion video animation portraying today’s urban challenges using a paper and cardboard mock city. Aimed at an audience not yet familiar with urbanization pr...
Tags: Video, Infrastructure and Services, Urban Infrastructure, Urban Planning, Urban Risk Reduction
21 Nov 2014
These are the lecture videos from the free UBC course Climate Literacy: Navigating Climate Change Conversations, which tackles the scientific and socio-political dimensions of climate change. This course introduces the basics of the climate system, m...
Tags: Video, Climate Change Adaptation
25 Nov 2014
Over the past 20 years, disasters due to natural hazards have affected 4.4 billion people, claimed 1.3 million lives and caused 2 trillion US dollars in economic losses. These disasters not only brought death and destruction, they did so disproportio...
Tags: Video, Disaster Law