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...Open University’s third level module on international environmental policy (DU311: Earth in Crisis). Over a few days we met with various people with a professional or personal interest in the relationship between climate change, flooding and coastal erosion. They included professionals working for the Environment Agency, Swale Borough Council and the Royal Society for...

...open one. [Visually impaired person using mobile phone] A growing number of specialist navigation apps are available for the visually impaired Cautious optimism Our findings on how smart technologies might help visually impaired people navigate the city reflect our broader impressions of the emergence of the smart city, those being a sense of cautious optimism. Cautious...

...Open University's Geography and Environmental Science degree. In my recent visit to Pune (Maharashtra, India), the city where I grew up, at the peak of Indian summer in May when the sweltering heat is beating down the streets, I was struck by the cool shade under large urban trees. It’s the kind of place where you want to be sipping sugarcane juice freshly made by a...