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Big changes in distribution of world's urban population
… the paper's author David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow in IIED’s human settlements group. "Most of Europe's great centres of industry are no longer among …
News, 21 October 2007
India's urban poor threaten to cripple Mumbai's air and rail links
… development plans too." David Satterthwaite, senior fellow in the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development, …
News, 29 May 2007
Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
… (david.satterthwaite@iied.org) is a senior fellow in IIED's Human Settlements research group and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, …
Blog, 07 October 2016
Gates Foundation gives US$10 million to help urban poor improve living conditions
… pay little attention to urban poverty," says Diana Mitlin of IIED's Human Settlements Group. "And when they do, it is to finance professionally designed …
News, 22 November 2007
Annual report 2006/07
… the UN climate change conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2006. Human settlements Rising tide of concern over coastal cities:  ‘The rising … forum:  in September 2006, IIED’s Poverty and Conservation Learning Group was launched: a major platform for 70 conservation organisations …
Page, 16 April 2008
Keeping the forests we've got
… on higher ground Vrede is a member of Hesi (Quick), a community group which helps flood victims. The government's help came late. It intends to establish forest settlements, but lacks money. "We're staying where we are, " said Hugo … for about 18 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. Keeping the forests intact is therefore vital to …
Blog, 30 April 2009
Markets and payments for environmental services
… our hands-on action research approach with poor and marginalised groups in the south.  Learning lessons from Costa Rica’s PES scheme … Uganda are under threat as their habitat is lost to agriculture and human settlements. Central to this problem is the attitude of most farmers …
Project, 03 October 2008
Supporting Adaptation to Climate Change: What role for Official Development Assistance?
… Adaptation to climate change describes the adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or … education and health services, improving living conditions in urban settlements, and providing access to financial markets and technologies, … 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel …
Article, 14 November 2008