The SCOPE is a podcast exploring climate change as a force on, and result of, the built environment.  Our guests are Monika Büscher, professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, and associate director in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, Greg Marsden, professor of Transport Governance, Institute for Transport Studies, Keith Mitchell, director of Transport and Place, Stantec and Richard Wenham, chair, England’s Economic Heartland.

Following the launch of Bridging the Gap, an extensive report examining the most viable routes towards transport decarbonisation, the group discuss key takeaways for local authorities and the systemic, societal shifts needed in the years ahead.

The SCOPE is a podcast exploring climate change as a force on, and result of, the built environment. Our second guests are Josh Grantham, an Infrastructure Campaigner at CamCycle, and Wesley Wroe, Sustainable Infrastructure Engineer at Stantec. Together, we discuss the huge percentage of public land that is the responsibility of engineers - and how expensive we've made it to maintain, wicked problems, pseudo public spaces, batcaps, and the powerful influence of a tandem bike.

The SCOPE is a podcast exploring climate change as a force on, and result of, the built environment. Our first guests are Nels Nelson, a Senior Urban Planner at Stantec’s Urban Places, and Memo  Cedeño from Harvard’s School of Public Health. We discuss the urban heat island effect, how to avoid spending public money where its least needed but most noisily called for, proving common sense, quantifying health outcomes, and acting like your house is on fire.