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The acceleration of climate change and the increasing prevalence are arguably the most serious of risks to development of urban areas, providing an ever increasing concern for city authorities and planners (Wamsler, 2014). The increase in prevalence means that there is a greater risk of greater social and economic losses as a result of aContinue reading “Urban Risk: How Toronto deals with a natural hazard”

December 2019 saw the 15th anniversary of a landmark Act being passed, the Ontario Liberal Government’s Greenbelt Act, passed in December 2004. In December 2004, the Ontario Government passed legislation that designated 730,000 hectares of land, the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH) Greenbelt around the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to combat the growing metropolitan area andContinue reading “Toronto’s Greenbelt Under Threat: Civil society and (who is) defining ‘nature’”

In the late 1950s an area of land in the Nevada desert was allocated for nuclear testing, located roughly 60 miles away from the city of Las Vegas. Nuclear tests were carried out at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) up until 1992. The tests were carried out to ensure that US military power was maintained.Continue reading “The Nevada Test Site and its radioactive legacy in Vegas!”

Thanks to its positioning in the desert, Las Vegas can top temperatures of 40*C during the summer months. Heat islands are created above Las Vegas. These happen when building materials that hold heat, transfer the stored heat energy to the surrounding air (via radiation and conduction) (Black, et al. (2013). This creates higher night-time temperaturesContinue reading “Heat Islands and the Production of Urban Air- Las Vegas!”

This blog post aims to understand how air pollution impacts upon Toronto, who is involved in the assessment of air quality and use this as a lens for understanding air pollution more generally. Graham (2015) has previously stated that understanding air pollutants has been understudied and underdeveloped. This is surprising despite constant lobbying in academiaContinue reading “Toronto’s Air Pollution: Proximity to roads, monitoring, and… Trump?”

Welcome to my blog! In the next series of posts I will be critically examining the urban environmental struggles being faced in Las Vegas, whilst playing close attention to the political and social repercussions that these have. Located in the state of Nevada, Las Vegas is the most populated city within the state.(US Census Bureau,Continue reading “Las Vegas – environmental issues faced by Sin City!”

Hello, and welcome to my blog. Over the next series of posts I will be providing some critical insight into the way in which a city and its people, its government, and resources try and deal with the environmental issues that they face on a day to day basis. The blog will focus on contemporaryContinue reading “Toronto – Setting the scene”