Mbale is a lively city in the Eastern Region of Uganda known for its stimulating hiking trails and bountiful crops, making it an optimal location for both tourists and residents. However, Mbale is facing an urgent waste management crisis that aims to threaten the daily operations of the city. While Mbale has a waste dumping […]
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The city of Harare, Zimbabwe has experienced a steady deterioration of environmental conditions. The city’s water has become contaminated with organic pollutants leading to higher nitrate and phosphate levels causing fish deaths. The situation seems to be made worse by water treatment challenges despite large efforts to upgrade the Morton Jeoffre water treatment plant. A […]
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Climate change has been impacting citizens all over the globe. However, coastal cities of developing countries are often the most affected due to the cities intensified demand for the production and consumption of goods, transport, and settlement. Because of this large demand, cities like Mombasa have struggled to keep up with rapid population growth resulting […]
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Chiang Mai, the largest city in northern Thailand and the former capital of the Lanna Kingdom, is steeped in history and culture. Founded in CE 1296, the city was built as a walled settlement surrounded by a rectangular moat, a feature that remains central to its identity. Today, the moat and the area it encloses […]
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A group of graduate students from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison worked collaboratively with Friends of Koshkonong Creek to create a conservation action plan to improve water quality and ecosystem conditions in Koshkonong Creek. Koshkonong Creek consists of lower and upper watersheds. Koshkonong Creek is listed under the Wisconsin […]
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This class took initial steps to create a GIS geodatabase, hub website, and citizen science application for the Friends of Koshkonong Creek and local stakeholders. UniverCity Year Contact Info: UniverCityAlliance@wisc.edu […]
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This project team will propose an extension of the Glacial Drumlin State Trail along Koshkonong Creek. The trail currently runs through the counties of Dane, Jefferson, and Waukesha from Cottage Grove to the city of Waukesha. The proposed trail extension would run from Sun Prairie to Cottage Grove where it would connect to the existing […]
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We are a group of six master’s students in the Environmental Observation and Informatics program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In this project, we provide an overview of the expansion of the City of Sun Prairie, background on how climate change is projected to affect this area of Wisconsin, and an analysis of how land […]
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According to Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy (PNRS), established by Law No. 12.305/2010, municipal authorities are responsible for solid waste management, the premise of which is integrated management aimed at reducing waste production, maximizing reuse, recycling materials and disposing of waste in an environmentally appropriate manner, with a view to universalizing services within the municipality. […]
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