Climate change is creating significant hazards globally. These are usually described in terms of physical phenomenon such as sea level rises, droughts, flooding and erratic weather conditions. However, the way these phenomena are experienced is mediated by social vulnerability (Vincent, … Continue reading The Architecture of Social Resilience
It is increasingly clear that we need to develop alternative development trajectories as current trends are unsustainable. This invited lecture at the University of Pretoria presented current trajectories related to natural systems such as carbon emissions as well as to … Continue reading Alternative Development Trajectories
The SAICE Infrastructure Report Card for South Africa provides a condition assessment of infrastructure in South Africa and I contributed to the sections on education infrastructure. While the report is a snapshot in time, trends in condition deterioration or improvement … Continue reading SAICE Infrastructure Report Card for South Africa 2017
The Applying the Sustainable Building Assessment Tool presentation was made at the Green Buildings Workshop being run by the Tshwane University of Technology. The lecture covered: What is sustainability, and why is it important? What are the implications for buildings? Defining sustainability performance … Continue reading Applying the Sustainable Building Assessment Tool
Understanding the Built Environment Sustainability Tool presentation was made at the Green Building Workshops at Tshwane University of Technology. The talk covered the development and rationale of BEST and how it can be used to assess the sustainability performance of neighborhoods … Continue reading Understanding the Built Environment Sustainability Tool
Cities are complex and involve many stakeholders so achieving sustainability change can be difficult, slow and require a wide range of mechanisms. It is not sufficient to have a high-level ‘sustainability’ strategy; real change requires strategic targets to be integrated … Continue reading Measuring Sustainability Change in Cities
Existing city planning and implementation processes are ‘tried and tested’ and have proven to be a successful means of planning and implementing large-scale infrastructure projects in cities. However an increasing interest in developing more sustainable cities has led to questions … Continue reading City Sustainability Strategies
Jeremy Gibberd 