by kapow | Dec 12, 2021 | Blog, International
PROTECTING A BIG CITY: NEW YORK DECISION MAKING Many cities over the years have been challenged by incursions of the sea. Think of Venice, Rotterdam, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, and others. They all tell stories and provide lessons. We read of the great Delta Works of...
by kapow | May 18, 2021 | Blog, International
King Tide Last week two articles appeared in the New York Times that revealed “times are a changing”. During the Trump years, federal agencies responsible for collecting and disseminating information on environmental and other indicators that show shifts from previous...
by kapow | Jan 11, 2021 | Blog, International
US COASTAL MANAGEMENT UNDER TRUMP The election of Joe Biden as President will surely bring changes to ways of managing environmental issues at various scales in the USA. This has already been foreshadowed with the nominations for cabinet positions, including the role...
by kapow | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog, International
TYPHOONS AND HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA Australian scientists based at ANU in 1975 made contact with Chinese colleagues at Academica Sinica. There was a mutual interest in Quaternary geology, human prehistory, and environmental change. I was at ANU at the time and took...
by kapow | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog, International
Rethinking Landscape in Aotearoa I recently had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the Environmental Defence Society (EDS) of New Zealand in Auckland (14-15 August 2019). This is the major conference in NZ on environmental policy and management. Each...
by kapow | Mar 28, 2019 | Authored Elsewhere, Blog, International
Climate change adaptation: perspectives from Canada and England I have just had the opportunity of diving into two recently released reports related to climate change adaptation at a national level. They both deserve a read and are relevant to future adaptation policy...