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Human Settlements publishes
the international journal Environment
and Urbanization and its staff have also advised many United Nations
agencies, international NGOs and bilateral aid programmes on urban policy.
What's new? - Recent updates... News The Vulnerability of Karachi by Arif Hasan (2008) An article reflecting on the situation in the city following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Research themes update: We've added 'topics' pages under our research themes so you'll now find pages with special focus on Adapting Cities to Climate Change , Water and Sanitation and Pro-poor Shelter Development
Climate Change and Urban Children: Impacts and Implications for Adaptation (DRAFT) by Gordon McGranahan (2007) Human Settlements Discussion Paper Series - Urban Environment: 1
Migration and adaptation to climate change Cecilia Tacoli (Nov 2007) Climate change is having an undeniable impact on many human behaviours, including population mobility. This 2 page Sustainable Development Opinion paper outlines some of the dominant issues.
New E&U Briefs online Number 15. Reducing risks to cities from climate change; an environmental or a development agenda? (summary of Environment and Urbanization Volume 19:1) Number 14. Towards a real-world understanding of less ecologically damaging patterns of urban development (summary of Environment and Urbanization Volume 18:2)
The challenge of urban poverty is considerable; 900 million people are living in insecure accommodation in low-income settlements without adequate access to basic services such as water and sanitation. Many are at risk of eviction, and face considerable health risks every day of their lives. Find out more about one community driven strategy that has had a significant effect- the International Urban Poor Fund. download flyer (1.34Mb) If you would like to receive a copy by post please email stephanie.ray@iied.org Environment and Urbanization in Chinese For Chinese readers of E&U the 'China Participatory Urban Governance Network' is working to translate articles from the journal into Chinese. For more information about the project click here
Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges; from local to global and back Edited by Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan (2007), Earthscan • Contributions from leading experts in the fields of urban development and environmental planning • Explores case study material from Europe, Southeast Asia and Central America to download a free chapter and for more information...
The Earthscan Reader in Rural-Urban Linkages Edited by Cecilia Tacoli (2006) • This comprehensive Reader maps out and explores rural–urban linkages for the first time, covering the economic, livelihood, resource use and environmental threads that bind cities and rural areas together • Accessible introductions, figures, tables and further reading lists present key and hard to find literature – ideal for students in human geography and development practitioners alike more... World Urban Forum III, Vancouver on 19th-23rd June 2006
This event was of particular significance to the Human Settlements Group at IIED as it was in Vancouver 30 years ago that IIED helped the Canadian government to help organise 'Habitat I', the first UN conference on Human Settlements. Read more about our activities at the WUF
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Residents of Dharavi, India, are demanding the right to be involved in planning their settlement's future.
• A timely examination of the importance of scale in tackling urban environmental problems, showing that local problems can be addressed at global level and vice versa
