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Delays deny the world the justice of climate action
News, 15 December 2019
Piles of bags and jerrycans. Men pick some of them up.
Tackling loss and damage: who is most vulnerable to disaster displacement?
… significant financial support for them to do so. The COP also drove home how population displacement caused by extreme weather events is now …
Insight, 17 November 2021
Busy commuter traffic
What drives the world’s changing urban geographies?
… nations without sufficient infrastructure, services and city governance. City governments are faced with extraordinary changes in the … and households, ICTs provide huge possibilities for working from home, or setting up and running businesses at home; the spatial impact depends on where people work or operate from. …
Insight, 23 April 2020
A busy side street in the settlement of Dharavi
Invisiblising cities: the obsession with national statistics and international comparisons
… so many people, buildings and enterprises still go uncounted. Home and workplace risks:  For some home and workplace risks, data can be collected using specialist …
Insight, 25 February 2020
Group of women sit on the floor and raise their hands up.
How women leaders are getting better social protection for the vulnerable
Insight, 05 July 2022
Cover for 11500IIED.pdf
Barbara Ward and the Origins of Sustainable Development
… Nations (1962), Only One Earth (1972) written with René Dubos and The Home of Man (1976) were best sellers, both sides of the Atlantic and … Governance …
Publication, 01 December 2006
A group of women gather round the entrance to a building.
The health, wellbeing and climate benefits of slum upgrading
Article, 09 June 2022
A man writing notes while a woman watches.
Informal settlement data and local community responses to COVID-19 and climate risks
Article, 08 December 2020
A man looking up at a partially constructed roof
Bearing the climate burden – Bangladesh families are paying too much
Insight, 20 September 2019
Dam filling up a half empty reservoir
New archive restores knowledge produced by the World Commission on Dams
… the extensive consultations it carried out and its multi-stakeholder governance, and two decades later is still referred to as the “leading … base was no longer easily accessible online.  “This was brought home to me recently when I was asked to join a project that attached a …
News, 21 December 2021