Posts Tagged ‘Urban-rural interface; Forest fires; Climate change;’

Managing the Urban-Rural fringe

The recurring summer phenomenon of scrub and forest wild fires (or are they so wild ?) encroaching on heavily built up areas raises serious questions involving a number of URBACT priorities. Most recently Athens, but also in Portugal, Italy, California and Australia this year, the intense threat of fire has focussed attention on climate change […]

By URBACT, on September 4th, 2009 at 15:55