Two places in the sun

Serious protracted flooding of low-lying areas leads to rethink of Dutch and other low country policies. Benelux consortium firms start buying large tracts of land in Africa for a series of new retirement towns.

Groundhog thinking

Ecosystem services markets are set up across the EU to try to protect the soil. Farming then becomes a complex process of asset management and trading, and production declines rapidly.

When lava flows uphill

Who pays for evacuation of potential refugees? Who pays when they sue because disaster happens elsewhere? OR - evidence that threat of vulcanism is growing substantially due to climate change (reduce icecap weight, etc.)

Nice security if you can afford it

Many resilient communities go autarchic, in the face of sea level rise, extreme weather, unstable land and geological hazards. But, only the rich can afford high levels of security and hazard management. In response, other com...

Pollution, poverty & death – the blowback begins

Political reaction to evidence that the poor suffer much worse pollution levels: mass squats in affluent areas. - one of these projects - string evidence about particulates implication in some widespread disease e.g. asthma.