Climate resilience strategies in urban, rural areas
Wednesday, 8 May 2024 () Local decision-makers looking for ways to reduce the impact of heat waves on their communities have a valuable new capability at their disposal: a new study on vegetation resilience. Scientists completed a study of how well vegetation survived extreme heat events in both urban and rural communities across the country in recent years. The analysis informs pathways for climate mitigation, including ways to reduce the effect of urban heat islands.
In this video "Hike Along With Me on an Urban Woodland Trail Where Suburbia Stops and Rural Returns" come along with me and hike on a Woodland Trail. On this trail I start on an Urban trail at the edge of suburbia and hike to a rural area where the wild returns and the city stops.
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