Urban forests towards environmental and social justice: the case of Dhaka

The author of this article is Suraiya Begum Ruhi, MSc student of Resource Economics and Sustainable Development at the University of Bologna. Dhaka is one of the world’s top ten megacities with over 21 million people, facing a severe air quality crisis due to vehicle emissions, industrial activities, and unregulated construction. Transforming underutilised spaces into green oases […]
Greening through schooling – Copenhagen International School

In the last few years climate demonstrations have often adopted the strategy of school strikes. The core message is clear: young people want a sustainable future and they are willing to fight for it. However, school strikes also served as a protest against educational systems all over the world, which are often aloof from reality […]
Different actors, common values, same vision

In 2008, Timothy Morton coined the concept of Hyperobject to refer to all types of phenomena or objects whose spatial and temporal dimensions, combined with the plurality of forms in which it manifests itself, make it not directly experienceable as a concrete uniqueness. The climate crisis is the Hyperobject par excellence: “I cannot see it. […]