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探花直播new joint centre will support innovative research into smart听cities and fully integrated urban environments.

Despite the value that humans get from nature, it is not included in measurements of poverty and well-being. Cambridge's Judith听Schleicher and听Bhaskar听Vira say it's about time this changed.听

Funding approved for research projects involving UC Berkeley, Cambridge and the National 探花直播 of Singapore

Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and 探花直播 of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned about water management in Nepal and India can guide how cities can be made "ecologically smart".

Cities exist in a state of constant flux: not always 鈥榮mart鈥� and successful, they can be vulnerable, chaotic and seem on the edge of failure. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the shanty towns and slums. How can these informal settlements, and the wider city, be helped to succeed?
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探花直播cities of today are built with concrete and steel 鈥� but some Cambridge researchers think that the cities of the future need to go back to nature if they are to support an ever-expanding population, while keeping carbon emissions under control.

探花直播Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction is building on advances in sensing technology to learn everything possible about a city鈥檚 infrastructure 鈥� its tunnels, roads, bridges, sewers and power supplies 鈥� in order to maintain it and optimise its use for the future.

Life in towns and cities can grind you down, but putting health and wellbeing at the centre of new housing and infrastructure developments could make for happier, healthier citizens.

From wind turbines and solar photovoltaics to grey water recycling and electric vehicles, technology is making it ever easier for us to be green 鈥� yet many of us are not. Now, Cambridge researchers are discovering that our personalities and communities have a major impact on our environmental decisions, opening up new ways to 鈥榥udge鈥� us into saving energy and carbon.