Diane Archer

Former IIED senior researcher

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Languages: English, English, French, Thai

Diane Archer was IIED's senior researcher until August 2018

Expertise

Urban climate change resilience, community-driven development, urban development, slum upgrading, Asian cities (particularly Thailand)

Before IIED

Project coordinator at the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) in Bangkok
PhD in Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, on the topic of social capital and participatory slum upgrading in Thailand.

Current work

Research on Asian cities and climate change; humanitarian response to crises in urban areas.

Insights

Uganda’s capital city Kampala hosts 98,300 officially registered refugees from 25 countries (Photo: Morgan Schmorgan, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Kampala sets example for how cities can help refugees

Insight, 20 June 2018

The UN estimates that a million Somalis were displaced during 2017. Many move to informal settlements on the fringes of the capital, Mogadishu (Photo: AMISOM Public Information via Wikimedia Commons)

Providing shelter in East African cities: what works?

Insight, 22 February 2018

When infrastructure is not provided, or not affordable, the urban poor find their own way around the problem, as in Delhi, India, where electricity is tapped

Urban crisis response needs a humanitarian sector shake-up

Insight, 15 December 2017

Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)

Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities

Insight, 11 May 2017

Informal settlements around Laguna Lake near Manila in the Philippines (Photo: Arlynn Aquino EU/ECHO, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Climate responsive cities: a road towards the 'New Urban Agenda'?

Insight, 15 November 2016

An image of a crowd of members of the USaid Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) team rescue a teen in the Gongabu, Kathmandu District, five days after the Nepal earthquake in April 2015 (Photo: USaid, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Collaborations in urban humanitarian response – introducing the Global Alliance for Urban Crises

Insight, 31 May 2016

Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)

Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier

Insight, 23 October 2014

Outdoor workers in Da Nang are prone to heat stress. Credit: COHED.

To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability

Insight, 30 October 2013

The 2011 monsoon season brought unusually heavy rains and severe floods to many south-east Asian countries. Thailand was worst affected, with large parts of the Thai capital Bangkok under water (Photo: Chrisgel Ryan Cruz, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Thailand's floods: complex political and geographical factors behind the crisis

Insight, 02 November 2011

Publications

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Responding to climate change in contexts of urban poverty and informality

01 April 2019

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Climate crisis planning: a toolkit for building local urban resilience

01 January 2019

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Empowering local actors in an urban crisis

01 April 2018

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Responding to climate change in cities and in their informal settlements and economies

01 March 2018

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The urbanization of humanitarian crises

01 October 2017

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Resilience planning in Asian cities: lessons from the ICLEI–ACCCRN process

01 April 2017

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Developing city resilience strategies: lessons from ICLEI and ACCCRN

01 April 2017

Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities: governance for a more resilient urban future

01 January 2017

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Leave no one behind: what is the role of community-led urban development?

01 December 2016

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Balancing water stress and human crises under a changing climate; Integrating international policy agendas in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

01 December 2016

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Balancing water stress, human crises and innovation under a changing dryland climate

01 December 2016

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Typhoon Haiyan: lessons for urban disaster response and recovery

01 October 2016

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Balancing water stress and human crises in the Bekaa Valley

01 October 2016

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Making cash work for cities and towns affected by humanitarian crises

01 March 2016

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Decentralisation in West Africa: the implications for urban climate change governance

01 February 2016

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Vulnerable communities: climate adaptation that works for the poor

01 November 2015