A Q & A with Timon McPhearson In the lead up to Habitat III, a landmark summit that will explore sustainable development in cities, experts debate whether the world needs an international institution to assess and coordinate research on urban areas. This interview was done by Daniel Strain and first…

A Q&A with C40’s Seth Schultz In this interview, Seth Schultz, Research Director at the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group — a network of the world’s mega-cities committed to addressing climate change — talks about a new partnership emerging between science and cities. Boundaries between research and practice are dissolving…

In the lead up to Habitat III, a landmark summit that will explore sustainable development in cities, experts debate whether the world needs an international institution to assess and coordinate research on urban areas. This article was written by Daniel Strain and first published on the Future Earth blog. …

Q & A with Debra Roberts In this interview, Debra Roberts*, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, talks about a new paradigm for cities and science that is emerging in the aftermath of the historic Paris Agreement on climate change…

Marian Dörk is a Research Professor for information visualization at the Urban Futures Institute for Applied Research and the Urban Complexity Lab at University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany. This October, the UN will hold its biggest ever summit on the future of cities. …

In this dialogue, Garry Peterson, Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Sebastian Meier, Research Associate and Lecturer at the Interaction Design Lab at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences, discuss the power of data visualization as a tool for science and science communication — and what scientists…