We need to get wise about our heated cities
3 Mar 2017
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Professor Elizabeth Mossop ... cool ideas |
New Zealand needs to think about ways to keep its cities cool in the face of climate change – and the answer could be more trees, says an international planning expert due to speak here next month.
Professor Elizabeth Mossop, dean of architecture and building at Sydney’s University of Technology, says that heat is one of the biggest public health threats from climate change.
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