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Like many East African cities, Rwanda's capital Kigali faces the challenges of rapid growth and insufficient infrastructure (Photo: Kigali Wire, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why low-carbon urban development in African cities makes economic sense
Insight, 01 April 2016
A view from distance of dozens of buildings in close proximity on a hill
Karachi, informal settlements and COVID-19
… and influential urban scholars, to write this blog, focusing on his home city, Karachi, one of the world’s largest and most rapidly growing …
Insight, 06 May 2020
Health: an issue that needs to be prioritised in climate change adaptation
Insight, 01 April 2011
A map showing the neighbourhoods around Port-au-Prince, Haiti
IIED publishes archive on post-quake planning in Haiti
… projects carried out in 28 neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince that are home to more than a million people. Community planning initiatives …
News, 09 January 2020
‘Act on nature’, demand hundreds of organisations, in unprecedented call to world leaders
… Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), said: “COVID-19 has hammered home the fundamental interconnectedness of human, planetary and animal … and alive with interconnected and interrelated elements. She is home for all of us: the animals, plants, rivers, mountains, the house …
News, 18 September 2020
Women selling fish
Life and livelihoods: the impact of COVID-19 on small-scale fishing communities
… and loss of livelihoods. Direct fish marketing, online selling and home delivery services have developed at an incredible speed, opening …
Insight, 08 June 2021
Water with open sewage is stagnant in a built up area
Planning for reality in one of Nairobi’s largest ‘slums’
Insight, 04 December 2019
Evolving urban health risks: Housing, water and sanitation, and climate change
… across space and time: spatially from burdens in and around the home, towards city and regional burdens, and finally towards genuinely … patterning of urban environmental burdens for urban politics and governance, using water and sanitation and climate change as examples. …
Publication, 01 July 2012
Children at an informal school in the Kibera area of Nairobi. Providing free education is one way to reduce urban poverty (Photo: Christy Gillmore, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why are the main means by which urban dwellers avoid hunger ignored?
… (preferably water piped into their homes and toilets in each home - saves money as water is cheaper than from vendors or kiosks, … (which cuts risks of accidental fires and increases the scope for home-based income-earning opportunities) improving public transport (can …
Insight, 05 October 2011
People protesting
COP25 policy and activism: we deserved better
… to achieve better COP outcomes by changing political attitudes at home. We must demand our countries enter climate change negotiations …
Insight, 13 January 2020