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A question of time
Insight, 25 November 2010
Women crush and separate rocks containing gold ore for extraction at Nsangano Gold Mine, Mawemeru village, Geita, Tanzania (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Picturing the ASM space
… among ministries, and they shared their frustrations at a lack of human and financial capacity to harness the potential of ASM. …
Insight, 05 June 2015
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Chapter 9. LEARNING BY DOING IN CO- MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS
Publication, 01 January 1970
COP19: Cities on the agenda at the climate talks
Insight, 22 November 2013
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
… ;  David Dodman  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's  Human Settlements research group .  This visit was part of a broader …
Insight, 21 July 2016
Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA
Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
Insight, 13 November 2013
Outdoor workers in Da Nang are prone to heat stress. Credit: COHED.
To build climate resilience cities must assess diverse drivers of vulnerability
Insight, 30 October 2013
Wangari Maathai: activist, environmentalist and mother to a movement
… gave her a great foundation for action, which her powerful moral and human values could shape for the common good. Her drive also came from …
Insight, 27 September 2011
Jakarta: migrants from rural villages sleeping in an area that they rent for Rp 1.000,- (10 cents Euro) per night per person. There can be more than 50 people living and sleeping in this area at one time (Photo: Henry Ismail, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Stopping rural people going to cities only makes poverty less visible, and stripping migrants of rights makes it worse
… of many low-income groups.  Cecilia Tacoli is co-head of IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader for rural-urban research. …
Insight, 18 March 2015
A community planning workshop in Cambodia (Photo: Diana Mitlin/IIED)
Improving housing in Asia – and turning traditional top-down funding on its head
Insight, 11 March 2015