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Cover for G00433.pdf
37 3 Climate Change - Biodiversity and Livelihood Impacts
… we are now locked into a future characterised by significant human-induced changes to our climate. There are two types of response to …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Cover for G02181.pdf
Chapter 5 SUSTAINABILITY APPRAISAL: A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
… social dimensions of sustainability treated, eg as equity, rights, human capital issues? · How is environmental, social and economic …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Participants at the meeting establish how their NGO works with communities in DRC (Photo: Alessandra Guiliani/IIED)
Poverty and conservation in DRC – what role for a network?
… resulted in political insecurity, lack of infrastructure and mounting human pressure on biodiversity. Helping close the distance Recognising …
Insight, 24 August 2014
A local farmer uses manual callipers to measure a tree. Measuring trees in person can be cheaper and just as accurate (Photo: Geoff Wells)
The Paris Agreement, SDGs and simple local monitoring
… to sustainable development, where a great diversity of human and environmental factors are considered in project design and …
Insight, 07 January 2016
New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
2016 – when global meets local in climate action
… across the full range of our research work – on natural resources, human settlements, sustainable markets and climate change. As we begin …
Insight, 04 January 2016
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
… David Dodman  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's  Human Settlements research group . …
Insight, 30 January 2017
COP21 president Laurent Fabius (second right) and UNFCCC executive secretary Christiana Figueres (second left) celebrate the Paris Agreement (Photo: UNclimatechange, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A historic agreement in Paris
… World War, the context that gave rise to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not like today's world at all. For the would-be global …
Insight, 14 December 2015
A cup of coffee. We are drinking more coffee: the International Coffee Organisation says world coffee consumption has been rising by an average of 2.3 per cent per year (Photo: Benedicto de Jesus, Creative Commons via Flickr)
A new kind of brew: smallholder coffee and carbon
… "Five years ago the question was 'is climate change being pushed by human activity?' For the coffee sector now we are beyond questions, we …
Insight, 08 December 2015
Solar-radiation management aims to reduce the amount of solar energy warming the planet by blocking the sun with tiny particles (Photo: Mike, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Geoengineering and development – what price on equity and justice in the coming climate culture wars?
Insight, 20 December 2017
Waste pickers packing up the recyclable materials, Peru (Photo: Alex Proimos, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Workers in informal economy need say in global environmental agendas
… it. Donald Brown ( [email protected] ) is a consultant in IIED's Human Settlements Group and PhD candidate at the Bartlett Development …
Insight, 07 December 2015