Tag: sustainability

Novรก studie SYRI ukazuje, jak vybudovat spoleฤnost odolnou proti katastrofรกm

Extrรฉmnรญ projevy poฤasรญ jako vichล™ice, sucho nebo povodnฤ› se kvลฏli klimatickรฝm zmฤ›nรกm iย vย ฤŒesku stรกvajรญ ฤรญm dรกl ฤastฤ›jลกรญmi. Mรญra dopadลฏ tฤ›chto katastrof zรกvisรญ na resilienci, tedy odolnosti spoleฤnosti aย jejรญ schopnosti se sย podobnรฝmi udรกlostmi vyrovnat aย pล™edchรกzet jim. Novรก studie Nรกrodnรญho institutu SYRI ukazuje, ลพe je ฤeskรฝ systรฉm sniลพovรกnรญ rizik katastrof zatรญm zamฤ›ล™enรฝ pล™edevลกรญm na tradiฤnรญ krizovรฉ ล™รญzenรญ... Continue Reading →

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The 8th International Workshop on Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research

From 29 September to 1 October 2025, the interdisciplinary research community engaged in archetype analysis convened for the 8th International Workshop on Archetype Analysis in Sustainability Research. Hosted at the Thรผnen Institute of Biodiversity in Braunschweig, Germany, the event brought together around 40 researchers, providing a dynamic forum for exchanging and advancing ideas at the... Continue Reading →

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Launching the IPBES Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment: Reflections from the First Authorsโ€™ Meeting

The intensive and productive week-long first authorsโ€™ meeting for the IPBES Spatial Planning and Connectivity Assessment took place at IIASA in Laxenburg from 22โ€“26 September 2025. The meeting brought together more than 100 experts to launch this fast-track methodological assessment, co-chaired by Peter Verburg, Maria Jose Martinez Harms, and Luis Inostroza. This assessment focuses on... Continue Reading →

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AGRI4POL stakeholder workshop on pollinator-friendly farming towards a sustainable future of agriculture

On 9โ€“10 September 2025 in Brussels, more than three dozen stakeholders from across Europe met for a two-day workshop focused on a single goal: creating a sustainable future for both pollinators and agriculture. As part of the AGRI4POL project (๐Ÿ”—), the event brought together policymakers, NGOs, agribusiness and farmersโ€™ organisations, and researchers. The collaborative setting... Continue Reading →

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Reflecting on Collaborative Research in Sustainability: Insights from a Course at Sรถdertรถrn University

This post shares my reflections on the role of collaboration in sustainability-focused research based on the literature and lectures from Sรถdertรถrn Universityโ€™s online PhD course Collaborative Research Methods. As sustainability challenges become increasingly urgent, academic inquiries have paid more attention to understanding and addressing the deep connections between ecological, social, and economic systems. In response,... Continue Reading →

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ISEE-Degrowth 2025: Building socially just postgrowth futures – linking theory and action

In June 2025, the ISEE-Degrowth Conference took place in Oslo under the theme โ€œBuilding socially just postgrowth futures โ€“ linking theory and action.โ€ This unique event combined the 18th International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) Conference and the 11th International Degrowth Conference, drawing over 1,200 participants from 60 countries, supported by approximately 70 volunteers. The... Continue Reading →

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Inclusion in Early Childhood Education and Beyond

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Univerzita Komenskรฉho (Comenius University) in Bratislava, Slovakia to take part in theย 33rdย conferenceย for theย European Early Childhood Education and Research Association (EECERA). For some followers of this blog, this might seem like a slight deviation from the issues and fields we normally explore in our Human Dimensions Department. However,... Continue Reading →

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SSH Centre consortium meeting at Cambridge

As the SSH CENTRE (Social Sciences and Humanities for Climate, Energy and Transport Research Excellence) project enters its final phase, members of the consortium gathered between 11-12 June 2025 for a two-day meeting at the historic Kingโ€™s College, Cambridge. The event focused on writing deliverables, project reflection and strategic planning, and brought together partners to... Continue Reading →

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Interoperabilita pro hodnocenรญ ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb: Proฤ, jak, kdo a pro koho?

Novรฝ vฤ›deckรฝ ฤlรกnek publikovanรฝ v ฤasopise Ecosystem Services pod vedenรญm Kena Bagstada, vรฝzkumnรฉho ekonoma z U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), vรฝzkumnรญkลฏ z Ikerbasque na BC3, a dalลกรญch vรฝzkumnรฝch รบstavลฏ vฤetnฤ› CzechGlobe, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Nagoya University, VITO remote sensing a mnoha dalลกรญch zdลฏrazลˆuje nalรฉhavou potล™ebu lepลกรญ interoperability ve vรฝzkumu ekosystรฉmovรฝch sluลพeb. Studie shrnuje poznatky... Continue Reading →

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Promoting sustainable agriculture for pollinators: Launching Agri4Polย 

Threats to pollinators and pollination services that support agriculture and provide benefits to people are a worldwide problem. This is recognised by scientists, national or transnational initiatives, and even policies. A team from our department at CzechGlobe has joined a new project that aims to help agriculture to become a positive force for pollinator biodiversity, crop pollination services and co-benefits to ecosystems and people.ย 

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Vรฝzkumnรก spoluprรกce sโ€ฏAalto University vโ€ฏoblasti designu a udrลพitelnostiย 

Co je podstatnรฉ pล™i procesu designovรกnรญ sociรกlnฤ›-ekologickรฉ transformace? A jak aktuรกlnฤ› vypadรก design pro rozvoj resilience? Na tyto a dalลกรญ souvisejรญcรญ otรกzky zรญskรกvala odpovฤ›di doktorandka Anna Bromovรก z Oddฤ›lenรญ sociรกlnฤ›-ekologickรฉ analรฝzy vโ€ฏrรกmci tล™รญmฤ›sรญฤnรญho vรฝzkumnรฉho pobytu na Oddฤ›lenรญ designu pล™i Aalto University ve Finsku. Na pล™elomu roku prohloubila spoluprรกci se svou mentorkou zโ€ฏmentoringovรฉho programu Nรกrodnรญho institutu... Continue Reading →

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Heat vulnerability scenarios to support adaptation efforts in cities

In 2022, Czech Globe in cooperation with the Institute of Informatics of the CAS completed the project "Adaptation challenges of cities: supporting sustainable planning using integrated vulnerability analysis", supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. The project has developed an integrated methodology for assessing the vulnerability to future temperature extremes in cities, which... Continue Reading →

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New Insights on Knowledge Systems in Sustainable Development Cooperation: A Focus on Zambia

A new paper, Knowledge-Based Interventions for Sustainable Development Cooperation: Insights from Knowledge Systems Mapping in Zambia, delves into the critical role of knowledge systems within the context of international development cooperation, with a specific focus on the Czech Republic's development activities in Zambia. It was published in Sustainability Science and co-authored, among others, by scientists... Continue Reading →

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The Electoral Climate in India

In April and May this year, the largest population of climate-vulnerable voters took to the polling booths amidst unprecedented heat waves in India. The extreme weather events brought home concerns climate activists, researchers, and journalists raised about the missing climate question in India's electoral agendas. A lot has been said about whether or not climate... Continue Reading →

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SELINA’s Seeds of Change

SELINA (Science for Evidence-based and sustainabLe decIsions about NAtural capital) is a Horizon Europe project with the mission to provide robust practical information and recommendations on ecosystem services to stakeholders from both the public and private sectors. SELINA will develop guidance for evidence-based decision-making that supports the protection, restoration, and sustainable use of ecosystems. Through... Continue Reading →

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SSH Centre: Workshop on Mobility Communities

In April 2024, a two-day workshop on Mobility Communities was held in Porto, Portugal, as part of series of workshops organised under the Knowledge Brokerage Programme within the project SSH Centre. CzechGlobe, a partner of the project consortium, was represented by Tereza Prรกลกilovรก, who attended the workshop as an active observer. First day of the... Continue Reading →

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Exploring farmersโ€˜ aspirations in Tanzania and Malawi

FoSTA-Health is a project where Lenka Suchรก and Aneta Seidlovรก from CzechGlobe, along with partners from the University of Leeds, contribute to the research components focused on the on-ground food systems transformation in Tanzania and Malawi. They are specifically interested in how the food systems transformations are framed by the small-scale farmers who are most... Continue Reading →

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Plus Change โ€“ 1st Workshop in the Nitra City Practice Case

The PLUS Change project aims to develop strategies and decision-making processes for land use that effectively address challenges related to climate change, biodiversity, and human well-being. The project involves interventions across diverse political, economic, societal, material, and cultural contexts, involving actors at multiple decision-making levels including the individual, land management, planning, and policy levels. This... Continue Reading →

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Coop4Wellbeing: Vรฝstupy pro rozvojovou praxi

V letech 2021-2023 realizoval รšstav vรฝzkumu globรกlnรญ zmฤ›ny AV ฤŒR ve spoluprรกci s Katedrou rozvojovรฝch a environmentรกlnรญch studiรญ Univerzity Palackรฉhoย a organizacรญย ฤŒlovฤ›k vย tรญsni projekt Coop4Wellbeing, kterรฝ byl podpoล™en Technologickou agenturou ฤŒeskรฉ republiky z programu ร‰ta. Projekt Coop4Wellbeing byl zaloลพen na nฤ›kolikastupลˆovรฉm participativnรญm procesu, kterรฝ kombinoval vรฝzkumnรฉ aktivity v ฤŒeskรฉ republice se sbฤ›rem dat v Zรกpadnรญ provincii... Continue Reading →

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Our department at the Earth System Governance conference & PLANET4B project consortium meeting

In the week of 23-27 October 2023, the Department of Human Dimensions of Global Change was represented at two events in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as part of the ongoing activities of the PLANET4B project. The 2023 Radboud conference on Earth System Governance brought together different scientific disciplines and stakeholders from different sectors to connect science... Continue Reading →

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Resilienฤnรญ myลกlenรญ a imaginace budoucnosti na Letnรญ ลกkole v Josefovฤ›

Zajรญmavou souฤรกstรญ vฤ›deckรฉ prรกce Oddฤ›lenรญ sociรกlnฤ›-ekologickรฉ analรฝzy byl ฤervencovรฝ participativnรญ workshop na mezinรกrodnรญ Letnรญ ลกkole v Josefovฤ›. Studentky divadelnรญch oborลฏ z ฤŒeska, Slovenska a Polska si na nฤ›m osvojily stฤ›ลพejnรญ poznatky vรฝzkumu sociรกlnฤ›-ekologickรฉ resilience a zรญskaly pล™รญleลพitost je ihned aplikovat pล™i tvลฏrฤรญ kooperativnรญ imaginaci resilientnรญch budoucnostรญ. Anna Bromovรก a Lenka Suchรก tak pล™i workshopu s nรกzvem โ€žConnective energy, collective... Continue Reading →

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Workshop: Vazby mezi spoleฤnostรญ a pล™รญrodou vโ€ฏpraxi ฤeskรฉ rozvojovรฉ spoluprรกce

Ve dnech 31. 8.-1. 9.2023 v Litomyลกli probฤ›hl zรกvฤ›reฤnรฝ workshop projektu Coop4Wellbeing, kterรฝ dlouhodobฤ› usiluje o propojovรกnรญ ฤeskรฉ rozvojovรฉ spoluprรกce (ZRS ฤŒR) a sociรกlnฤ›-ekologickรฉho vรฝzkumu v Zรกpadnรญ provincii Zambie. Cรญlem zรกvฤ›reฤnรฉho workshopu bylo:ย  Pล™edstavit realizรกtorลฏm ZRS ฤŒR klรญฤovรก zjiลกtฤ›nรญ terรฉnnรญho vรฝzkumu vโ€ฏZambii  Spoleฤnฤ› diskutovat tyto vรฝsledky a jejich praktickรฉ vyuลพitรญ pล™i designu a implementaci rozvojovรฝch... Continue Reading →

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Creating nature-centred futures for Europe in 2050

In the Horizon Europe-funded project BIONEXT, European changemakers are exploring new visions for nature-centered Europe for 2050. In the first out of three BIONEXT workshops, in May 2023 in Greece, changemakers from different backgrounds created visions of what a nature-centred Europe can look like in the year 2050. Who are the changemakers participating in BIONEXT... Continue Reading →

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FoSTA-Health’s scoping visit to Malawi

In April-May 2023 FoSTA-Health researchers participated in scoping activities in Zambia and Malawi. Our CzechGlobe team member, Lenka Suchรก, joined our other colleagues from the consortium for one week in Malawi. The primary aim of the scoping visit was to gather background information about one-health and food systems transformations in order to refine our research... Continue Reading →

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Analรฝza archetypลฏ jako pล™รญstup ke zkoumรกnรญ udrลพitelnรฝch strategiรญ

Archetypovรก analรฝza je metodologickรฝ pล™รญstup ke studiu sloลพitรฝch sociรกlnฤ›-ekologickรฝch systรฉmลฏ a vzรกjemnรฉho pลฏsobenรญ jednotlivรฝch ฤรกstรญ tฤ›chto systรฉmลฏ. Napล™รญklad zemฤ›dฤ›lskรฉ systรฉmy pฤ›stovรกnรญ plodin jsou procesy, kterรฉ vyลพadujรญ lidskou ฤinnost i specifickรฉ prostล™edรญ, ale napล™รญฤ regiony existuje ลกirokรก ลกkรกla biofyzikรกlnรญch atributลฏ, zemฤ›dฤ›lskรฝch postupลฏ nebo spoleฤensko-politickรฝch organizacรญ a dalลกรญch faktorลฏ, kterรฉ tyto systรฉmy utvรกล™ejรญ a kterรฉ vykazujรญ jedineฤnรฉ,... Continue Reading →

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Degrowth debunked or decoupling debunked?

Beyond economic growth in sustainability debates. We quite often witness heated disputes on the direction of sustainability transitions. These debates are slowly making its way also to popular spaces and the media, often distorted and biased. Within this discourse, there are two recognisable ideological streams: one representing the proponents of ...

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Druhรก expedice do Zambie: Vlogy z terรฉnnรญho vรฝzkumu

Po roce se do Zรกpadnรญ provincie v Zambii vydaly v rรกmci projektu Coop4Wellbeing vรฝzkumnice z CzechGlobe, Lenka Suchรก, Zuzana Harmรกฤkovรก a Aneta Seidlovรก, spolu s kolegy z Katedry rozvojovรฝch a environmentรกlnรญch studiรญ Univerzity Palackรฉho a z organizace ฤŒlovฤ›k v tรญsni. Tรฝm se vฤ›noval prohlubovรกnรญ vรฝzkumu klรญฤovรฝch tรฉmat, kterรก jsou dลฏleลพitรก jak pro ลพivot mรญstnรญch lidรญ... Continue Reading →

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SYRI: Jak posรญlit spoleฤenskou i environmentรกlnรญ odolnost jako prevenci systรฉmovรฝch rizik?

Vรฝzkumnรญci a vรฝzkumnice z CzechGlobe jsou souฤรกstรญ nรกrodnรญho vรฝzkumnรฉho konsorcia zkoumajรญcรญho dopady systรฉmovรฝch rizik na spoleฤnost a ekonomiku. SYRI (Nรกrodnรญ institut pro vรฝzkum socioekonomickรฝch dopadลฏ nemocรญ a systรฉmovรฝch rizik) je virtuรกlnรญ vฤ›deckรฝ hub, kterรฝ sdruลพuje odbornรญky z Masarykovy univerzity, Univerzity Karlovy a รบstavลฏ Akademie vฤ›d ฤŒR. Vznikl jako reakce na zjiลกtฤ›nรญ, ลพe souฤasnรฉ vรฝzvy (vฤetnฤ›... Continue Reading →

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SYRI: How to strengthen social and environmental resilience as a prevention of systemic risks?

CzechGlobe researchers are part of a national research consortium investigating the impacts of systemic risks on society and the economy. SYRI (National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Disease and Systemic Risk) is a virtual scientific hub that brings together experts from Masaryk University, Charles University and institutes of the Czech Academy of... Continue Reading →

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TRANSPATH: Jak zajistit synergickรก a spravedlivรก opatล™enรญ v oblasti biodiverzity a klimatu?

Odbornรญci z CzechGlobe se pล™ipojujรญ k mezinรกrodnรญmu konsorciu zkoumajรญcรญmu, jakรฉ cesty by nรกm mohly pomoci transformovat ล™etฤ›zce mezi tฤ›ลพbou, vรฝrobou, spotล™ebou a obchodem tak, abychom dosรกhli pozitivnรญch vรฝsledkลฏ pro klima a biologickou rozmanitost. Novรฝ ฤtyล™letรฝ projekt TRANSPATH je financovรกn z programu Evropskรฉ unie pro vรฝzkum a inovace Horizon Europe. Pomลฏลพe identifikovat intervence a body pลฏsobenรญ... Continue Reading →

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TRANSPATH: How to make biodiversity and climate actions synergistic and just?

Experts from CzechGlobe are joining an international consortium to study what pathways could help us transform the chains between extraction, production, consumption and trade, to achieve positive outcomes for climate and biodiversity. The new four-year project, TRANSPATH, is funded by the European Unionโ€™s research and innovation programme Horizon Europe. It will identify leverage points and... Continue Reading →

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Prohlubujeme vรฝzkum udrลพitelnรฝch zdrojลฏ obลพivy v Zambii s projektem Coop4wellbeing

V rรกmci projektu Coop4Wellbeing jsme na pล™elomu ledna a รบnora 2023 vyrazili spolu s kolegy a kolegynฤ›mi z organizace ฤŒlovฤ›k v tรญsni a Katedry rozvojovรฝch a environmentรกlnรญch studiรญ Univerzity Palackรฉho na druhou vรฝzkumnou cestu do Zambie. Bฤ›hem mฤ›sรญฤnรญho pobytu v oblasti kolem mฤ›sta Mongu, regionรกlnรญho centra Zรกpadnรญ provincie, jsme pokraฤovali s vรฝzkumnรฝmi aktivitami zapoฤatรฝmi v รบnoru 2022. Kromฤ› prohlubovรกnรญ naลกeho poznรกnรญ... Continue Reading →

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BIONEXT: Poskytovรกnรญ integrovanรฝch ล™eลกenรญ krize biologickรฉ rozmanitosti

Odbornรญci z CzechGlobe se pล™ipojujรญ k pล™ednรญm evropskรฝm vฤ›dcลฏm, aby poskytli praktickรก a รบฤinnรก ล™eลกenรญ pro ล™eลกenรญ globรกlnรญ krize biodiverzity. Novรฝ ฤtyล™letรฝ projekt BIONEXT, financovanรฝ z programu EU pro vรฝzkum a inovace Horizon Europe, pล™inese novรฉ poznatky demonstrujรญcรญ, jakรฝmi zpลฏsoby je biologickรก rozmanitost zรกkladem vลกech aspektลฏ ลพivota, vฤetnฤ› vody, kterou pijeme, potravin, kterรฉ jรญme, a... Continue Reading →

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BIONEXT: Providing integrated solutions to the biodiversity crisis

Experts from CzechGlobe are joining leading scientists from across Europe to provide practical and effective solutions for addressing the global biodiversity crisis. The new four-year project, BIONEXT, funded by the EUโ€™s research and innovation program Horizon Europe, will produce new evidence to demonstrate how biodiversity underpins every aspect of life, including the water we drink,... Continue Reading →

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Nรกstroje ochrany pล™รญrody v novรฉm svฤ›tle? Projekt MรšSES+ Veฤพkรฝ ล ariลก propojil pล™รญrodnรญ a spoleฤenskรฉ vฤ›dy

Mฤ›sto Veฤพkรฝ ล ariลก, kterรฉ se nachรกzรญ na vรฝchodnรญm Slovensku, se v roce 2022 zapojilo do projektu MรšSES+, v rรกmci kterรฉho zรญskalo strategickรฝ dokument Mรญstnรญ รบzemnรญ systรฉm ekologickรฉ stability (MรšSES) s pล™idanou sociรกlnรญ dimenzรญ (+). *Mรญstnรญ รบzemnรญ systรฉm ekologickรฉ stability - รšSES - je zรกkladnรญm nรกstrojem ochrany pล™รญrody a krajiny, rozmanitosti podmรญnek a forem ลพivota, jakoลพ... Continue Reading →

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2022 Toronto Conference on Earth System Governance (ESG 2022): reflections on contributions to just transformation topics

October 21, 2022: Earth System Governance Project 2022 conference in Toronto. Photo by Dave Chan. ESG 2022 took place from 20-24 October at Toronto University, CA. The central theme linking all the presented contributions was "Governing Accelerated Transitions". ESG 2022 hosted over a hundred sections, covering a wide range of topics connected to acceleration and... Continue Reading →

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Living in unbearably hot cities – is this our future?

Climate change and its impacts, such as extreme heat, represent an unprecedented challenge for cities, causing overheating and threatening the future prosperity, health and well-being of urban residents. Climate adaptation is one of the central topics for sustainable cities and societies. Yet, we have limited knowledge about the magnitude of climate change that we will... Continue Reading →

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Exploring urban futures for climate resilient cities

Uncertainties arising from the climate crisis and socioeconomic challenges are a key issue for urban planners in terms of future sustainability and wellbeing.ย  Climate change adaptation planning and practice have gained more attention in the past decade, and many cities around the world, including the cities in the Czech Republic, have adopted climate change adaptation... Continue Reading →

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