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New Zealand has three "big choices" to make to safeguard against impending sea level rise, according to a researcher specialising in sustainable cities.  Dr Crystal Olin, a researcher with the Univ

Adjunct Professor Ralph Chapman of Victoria University of Wellington examines the tensions between New Zealand climate change objectives and the Government’s vehicle emissions policy.

Dr Kimberley O'Sullivan, Otago University researcher at He Kāinga Oranga, Housing and Health Research Programme, was interviewed by Māni Dunlop for Radio New Zealand’s Midday Report on 18 October 2

We held two Public Health Summer School 2021 symposiums at the University of Otago Wellington in February. Building for zero carbon by 2050 and Eviction and its consequences.

We recently launched the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities’ latest book Improving Buildings, Cutting Carbon. The book is a collection of essays by a wide range of experts in the area of dec

Recently a team of researchers from the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities submitted to Wellington City Council on its draft spatial plan.

On behalf of the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities, Associate Professor Ralph Chapman and Professor Philippa Howden-Chapman have made a submission to the newly established Climate Change Commission.

Lynn Freeman talks to Clare Aspinall at the University of Otago in Wellington who is currently researching the benefits and challenges of using the Housing First approach in a New Zealand context o