Pembroke Dock Marine project couldn’t have come at a better time. With the UK having declared a climate emergency and now battling with Covid19, the biggest health crisis in a century, this...
In a nutshell Cities: Skylines is a game about building cities, it fits squarely into the genre of city-building games which began some thirty years ago with the original SimCity in 1993. The player...
For coastal regions, coastal management and climate change adaptation policies are central to developing resilient, adaptive and sustainable coastal communities. As is becoming increasingly clear...
In the last two decades, the concept of geodesign has emerged, mainly in terms of environmental and participatory planning and design. This is often supported by digital technologies to address...
A long, long time ago (March 2020) in a faraway land (Cork, Ireland) during our last CCAT partners meeting, we ran an hour-long climate change focussed discussion in small groups which was split into...
The Burrow in Portrane is a sandy spit of land in North Dublin that separates the Rogerstown estuary from the Irish Sea and is currently facing drastic coastal erosion. The peninsula was created...
Since March, communities across Ireland and Wales have experience significant changes in how we go about our every day lives. Recent weeks have seen restrictions on travel start to lift in Ireland...
There are countless definitions of adaptation. Biologists will know that it means how an organism responds to changes in its environment so it has a better chance of surviving. Engineers will say...
I attended a one-day Geodesign workshop in Florence, Italy on January 30th, 2020, as part of my Postdoctoral training on Geodesign methods, tools and implementations. The workshop was run by Prof. Dr...
Coastal areas provide society with a vast array of ecosystem services from which coastal communities and society more broadly derives a myriad of benefits, ranging from supporting habitats for...