The Grand Challengers Podcast

42 Episodes

1. The NotebookLM Mini Series #1: Cooling establishment time, it's like baking a cake (feat. Lucas Gobatti)

   Published: 17/03/2025
2. #40 - João P. Leitão: Studying the extremes - "when it rains, it floods", and "just add water" when "the heat is on"

   Published: 10/03/2025
3. #39 - Lucas Gobatti: Spinoza, science, spirituality - confronting ‘displacements’ in planning urban nature, climate and heat

   Published: 10/02/2025
4. #38 - Patricia Cuervo Uría: The human side of planning and flood risk in London - the challenge of embedding history into policy

   Published: 27/01/2025
5. #37 - Brett Ferrin: "Safeguarding the ordinary" - achieving traffic safety planning and management in a data-rich, AI-powered world

   Published: 13/01/2025
6. #36 - Tables Turned: Part 1 - Guests ask me questions on the podcast origin story, life choices and more

   Published: 9/12/2024
7. #35 - Yannick Back: The answers are beyond the "clouds" - the water-energy link for climate adaptation in a world of data ubiquity

   Published: 11/11/2024
8. #34 - Denise Mitrano: A world of plastics from macro and micro to nano - should zero plastics be the long-term goal?

   Published: 28/10/2024
9. #33 - Bill Hunt: America's evolving stormwater management, our innate connection to water and walking your "Camino"

   Published: 30/09/2024
10. #32 - Luis Angel Sañudo Fontaneda: Partnering with nature in Spain's journey to Sustainable Drainage and Climate Adaptation

    Published: 16/09/2024
11. #31 - Neil Armitage: Reflections, from a canoe chute and litter traps to Day Zero and South Africa's Sustainable Drainage

    Published: 12/08/2024
12. #30 - Tobias Baur: From tropical Singapore to Europe - the "ABC Waters" of sponge cities and climate adaptive design

    Published: 3/06/2024
13. #29 - Katrin Pakizer: Grassroots movements, policy instruments and timing for transforming water, biodiversity and underground management

    Published: 27/05/2024
14. #28 - Alexa Delbosc: A social psychology toolkit for changing transport planning, built environment and future mobility

    Published: 30/04/2024
15. #27 - Darcy Molnar: A personal journey, from Africa to Switzerland - insights on education, nature-based solutions and women scientists

    Published: 9/04/2024
16. #26 - Manuel Fischer: The Good, the Bad, and the Socio-Political - can science really support collaborative policymaking?

    Published: 18/03/2024
17. #25 - Shubber Ali: Your garden, the 'field of dreams' for tackling the twin crises of climate change and artificial intelligence

    Published: 5/03/2024
18. #24 - Jon Hathaway: The ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of green infrastructure, opening a ‘can of worms’ and gaining control of watersheds

    Published: 19/02/2024
19. #23 - Markus Vogl: To give 'space' - from a library to collaborative urban transformation and rethinking the architect's role

    Published: 5/02/2024
20. #22 - Françoise Bichai: "God-like technologies in medieval institutions", discussing paradigm shifts for greener, water-resilient cities

    Published: 22/01/2024