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A family in Tarialan, Uvs Province, Mongolia, uses a solar panel to generate power for their ger, a traditional Mongolian tent (Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Why social inclusion matters for green growth
… profits and economic gain, but also by overall advances in social and environmental value, including job creation, poverty reduction, and … wealth of the elite, creating challenging conditions for democratic governance. This has in turn led to an upsurge in populist political … past, it needs to focus on people. It needs to tackle the poverty, inequality, and exclusion that constrain both growth and environmental …
Insight, 11 August 2016
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Here's why Indigenous economics is the key to saving nature
… and enhanced biodiversity for millennia are now threatened by environmental policies that often fail to recognise the value of … undoing years of racial injustice that lie at the root of poverty and inequality, requires structural reform across economic and environment … have answers for many of the world’s most intractable challenges: inequality, ecocide, climate change. We cannot address these challenges …
Insight, 12 April 2021
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Talking transdisciplinarity
… 21 st century – notably climate change, biodiversity loss and global inequality – are interlinked and cross-cutting, hence they cannot be … truly collaborative problem solving is often underappreciated in the environmental conservation sector. Perspectives, goals and priorities … of disciplines on projects that apply research to address practical environmental challenges. Here we summarise key themes and lessons …
Insight, 16 April 2021
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IIED research and evidence in academia
… assistance policies in the context of increasing challenges of global inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss. Publishing research in … considering conservation initiatives broadly, the authors focus on governance of protected and conserved areas. The article draws primarily … Fund: big challenges for Small Island Developing States , Global Environmental Change (December 2024) This article extends existing …
Article, 23 September 2020
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Inclusive green growth in Kenya: Opportunities in the dryland water and rangeland sectors
… and overturning the intertwined negative drivers of climatic stress, environmental degradation, marginalisation and inequality that have held these communities back in the past. Kenya's …
Publication, 01 June 2015
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IIED launches podcast
… of our time, from climate crisis to biodiversity loss and increasing inequality. Each episode will provide informal insights into IIED’s work … Laura Kelly , also look at international attempts to improve marine governance and efforts to develop an ocean-based economy that successfully balances economic gain with social and environmental concerns.  Reaching new audiences  The Make Change Happen …
News, 23 August 2019
An image of women selling produce in an internally displaced persons camp, near Tawilla in North Darfur. The 'leave no one behind' agenda aims to ensure the poor are included in sustainable development (Photo: UNAMID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Unpacking what we mean by 'leave no one behind'
… shift would come from putting greater emphasis on the principles of inequality and sustainability. Those in favour of 'working with the … the discussion should be on 'within countries' around issues such as governance, the application of human rights, and access to health and … living with a disability, or working out who is most affected by environmental change, or the size of the gap between disabled and …
Article, 24 May 2016
The Enhancing Equity workshop in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park brought together government officials, local residents and conservationists (Photo: Alessandra Guiliani/IIED)
Enhancing equity and fairness
… and wildlife over access to resources. It can also result in poor environmental policies and decision-making processes, with frontline … example can be seen in the different understandings of "equitable" governance.  To local communities, this meant including local people in … at the workshop? Hellena Nambogwe ( [email protected] )  is an environmental educator working with the Uganda Poverty and Conservation …
Insight, 23 February 2015
Maize cultivation along the Kafue river in Kitwe, Zambia. Water levels in the river have decreased because of deforestation in the river’s catchment area (Photo: Barbara Adolph/IIED)
Food, ecosystems, equality – can we have it all?
… disciplinary mindsets.   Dr Monika Zurek , senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, says what is … account of the impacts, risks and trade-offs in social, economic and environmental dimensions of different agricultural development …
Insight, 19 December 2017
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Africa's urban transition and the role of regional collaboration
… the opportunities it provides, while curbing the inequalities and environmental burdens that market-driven or poorly planned urbanization …
Publication, 01 December 2009