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Accountability to Affected Populations in Urban Crises: Who Cares?
Publication, 01 December 2017
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Nature-based solutions: delivering national-level adaptation and global goals
… of defence against the direct impacts of climate change and support human adaptation over the long term. As the evidence base grows, …
Publication, 01 November 2018
Earth from space
Fifty years on, 'Only One Earth' rings true
… and children’s rights, there was the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment .  ‘Only One Earth’ was commissioned as the …
Insight, 08 June 2021
Levocatus Saidi Bujiku has been working as an artisanal miner for about two years (Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos Pictures)
Gold mining: the search for common ground
… future for themselves and their loved ones. The photos below tell the human story of gold mining... Click on each of the images below …
Insight, 11 June 2015
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Making Community Engagement a Priority: A Case-Study on Earthquake Response in Simon Pelé, Haiti
Publication, 01 December 2017
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SOS PLANÈTE ! MENACES ET RÉPONSES LIÉES À L’IMPACT DU RÉCHAUFFEMENT PLANÉTAIRE SUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT HUMAIN
… Report, Up in Smoke, says that global warming threatens to reverse human progress, and make the international targets on halving global …
Publication, 01 January 2004
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Are development finance institutions equipped to address land rights issues? A stocktake of practice in agriculture
… partly due to the close relationship that exists between land and human rights. Several governments are encouraging their DFIs to work in …
Publication, 01 February 2019
Rural landscape with plants growing in the land. People gather in the background
IIED at 50 must be ready to listen and change: Liz Carlile and Tara Shine in conversation
… an environmental scientist was always very much around putting the human into the environment – rather than the view that conservation and … also really important for climate change. Climate change is caused by human beings’ poor relationship with the environment, and our … as a resource. So until we change that and better understand how human beings fit into the ecology of any system, then we’re actually …
Article, 19 August 2021
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When Academics Become Humanitarians: A Post-Disaster Programme by the State University of Haiti
Publication, 01 December 2017
Combine harvesters in a wheat field
Is adaptation the missing ingredient from the new UN biodiversity action plan?
… it? Could we adapt? Using the same definition as for climate change, human adaptation to biodiversity loss would imply adjusting to low(er) … – rice, wheat, maize and potatoes – provide more than 60% of global human food requirements . But this lack of diversity in our diets seems …
Insight, 24 February 2020