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Urban climate action champion Debra Roberts gave the 2016 Barbara Ward Lecture (Image: IIED)
2016 Barbara Ward Lecture: Debra Roberts says global urbanisation strategy needs greater focus on practical implementation
… In the international arena, Roberts is lead author of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth … and IIED has been engaging with urban issues since the 1970s. Our Human Settlements research group works on urban environmental issues at all …
Article, 11 October 2016
Paying local communities for ecosystem services: The Chimpanzee Conservation Corridor
… bushmeat trade, habitat loss and fragmentation due to agriculture and human settlement, and conflicts with farmers. At the heart of this … place such as a estimated ‘without PES baseline scenario’ and control group surveys.  This means that the scheme can be rigorously checked for … PES schemes, which often lack an adequate counterfactual or control group for comparison. This video highlights the key work chimpanzee …
Project, 22 June 2011
A host of people carrying placards and banners, with a prominent banner that says: "Danger: delay kills you".
From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development
… on terrestrial and marine biodiversity, for example, was important to human wellbeing in all other dimensions. The challenges of a changing …
Insight, 01 September 2022
Madizini in Tanzania grew from a village into an urban centre, initially because the local sugarcane plantations and factory needed workers. Now the town supports a wide array of businesses (Photo: Jytte Agergaard)
Reframing food security for an urbanising world
… Tacoli ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group . Read more: IIED's project on the impacts of urbanisation and …
Insight, 10 April 2017
The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st
… try to use legal means to hold governments to account for meeting the human right to sanitation (PDF) . It has been estimated (PDF) , however, … sewers (affordability). The resulting system made tenure in the settlements involved more secure by increasing their legitimacy … ) is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader on urbanisation. …
Insight, 04 March 2015
Rural communities in Kenya are increasingly being affected by climate change, limiting opportunities for development. (Photo: Robin Wyatt)
Development and Climate Days 2018
… remarks Watch the address by Debra Roberts,  IPCC co-chair of Working Group II Watch the contribution by Maarten van Aalst, director of Red … on the Braced website Read a story about climate impacts on informal settlements, published on the Thomson Reuters Foundation website Watch a … the climate negotiations on how to advance the resilience of human communities and the ecosystems with which they coexist. Read the …
Event, 08 December 2018
Relocated street vendors operate in the car park below the alun-alun of the Masjid Raya Mosque in Bandung, but this basement area does not attract many customers and vendors have to breathe in car and motorcycle fumes due to the poor air circulation (Photo: Kemal Jufri/Panos Pictures)
Building trust through dialogue with street-food vendors
… and dignity (in Javanese, Nguwongke: 'to make other people feel human') he built the trust between institutions and informal vendors … Paolo Cravero ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 05 November 2015
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
… had been put in place with the assistance of Lumanti Support Group for Shelter, a Nepali NGO with a long history of working to … Diane Archer ([email protected]) is a researcher with IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 31 May 2016
Annual report 2009/10
… law. The next frontier for the foundation: implementation. Human settlements Extraordinary influence:  the IIED journal Environment and … high density at a lower cost, resulting in friendlier and healthier settlements. Natural resources Fair sharing of genetic gems:  agreement …
Page, 21 October 2010
'Population Dynamics and Climate Change' book
… requires an understanding of how the size, structure and dynamics of human populations influence, and are influenced by, our changing climate. This book is in part the product of an Expert Group Meeting on Population Dynamics and Climate Change held on 24-25 … Emissions and Climate Vulnerability . David Dodman 5. Mapping Urban Settlements adn the Risk of Climate Change in Africa, Asia and South …
Article, 01 June 2010