With changing climate, demographic patterns, and increasing urban concentration, cities will have to become more “water sensitive” than ever before. This short essay offers some tips.
Towards the Water-Sensitive City
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Introduction to Issue Fourteen
Climate change has virtually exploded as a subject of news reports, scientific analysis, and advocacy attention in the past six months. In November, the United States Global Change Research Program released its Fourth National Climate Assessment. Longstanding debates about the relative importance of mitigation and adaptation have further receded in urgency as this spring’s Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) finding that a million species are threatened with extinction have grabbed headlines worldwide.