A look at public space as a "community living room" and the role of police within the context of Los Angeles.
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Security
Posts in this category are about Security. As inequities within and between nations increase, new threats to security are emerging. Security depends on Social Equity, a sense of affiliation to a broader community, and a reliable stream of ecosystem services. Security can only be maintained by addressing the root causes of violence. This requires that fundamental needs be met, community capital be increased, and ecosystem services be stabilized.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
Can Urban Design Alleviate the Need for Cops?
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(0)Climate change could spark crises ?in Arab world?
Source: Gulf Times - There may be a considerable increase in the number of crises and disasters in the Arab world due to climate change and this could necessitate the distribution of food, water and medicine to millions of people , a top official at the organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) yesterday said.
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The Maldives Buys a New Island - That Floats
Sea level rise creates new business opportunity and “green jobs” that we’ll see more of, borne from the effects of climate change, as sea levels rise. The first floating island has just been commissioned this week by the sinking island nation of the Maldives, from Dutch Docklands, whose past work includes part of the artificial islands comprising The World off the coast of Dubai.
Humanity is faced with possibly its worst problem in all of its history, in climate change. It takes political imagination to make the changes needed to turn around the disaster bearing down on us. Half of us have an IQ under 100, so making this change and convincing all of us that we can do it (by switching to renewable energy sources) will be very much harder than just inventing fire was (perhaps our last comparable climate change challenge).
Perhaps we can’t save ourselves, and adaptation may be our only chance. Dutch Docklands is predicated on solving one result of this failure; rising sea levels – by inventing and engineering floating islands. Like inventing imitation glaciers, it’s an example of the kind of lateral thinking that we’ll need more of.
The company specializes in solutions for places where sea levels are rising, land is sinking or where sand shortages make traditional erosion control reclamation prohibitively expensive.
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