Human Settlements works to reduce poverty and improve health and housing conditions in the urban centres of Latin America, Asia and Africa. It seeks to combine this with promoting good governance and more ecologically sustainable patters of urban development.

Highlights

Radical shift needed to end alarmism over climate-related migration

Submitted by Mike on Wed, 2009-06-24 18:06.

Policymakers must radically alter their views of migration and see it as a vital adaptation to climate change rather than an unwanted consequence or a failure to adapt.

First book focusing on adaptation to climate change in cities

Submitted by Mike on Wed, 2009-06-10 14:32.

Adapting Cities to Climate Change contains contributions by 37 specialists from a variety of disciplines, several of whom served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A team from IIED has edited the first book to address in detail the ways in which cities can adapt to climate change

Expert Group Meeting on Population Dynamics and Climate Change

24-25th June 2009
New Connaught Rooms, London

Papers from this meeting will soon be available as downloadable pdfs.

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