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Myanmar is undergoing rapid economic change and urbanisation. Many new settlements like this one in Lashio lack basic services (Photo: Alex Drainville)
Introduction to urbanisation and rural-urban linkages
… , Cecilia Tacoli, Gordon McGranahan, David Satterthwaite (2015), IIED Human Settlements Working Paper Reframing the debate on urbanisation, … Donald Brown, Gordon McGranahan and David Dodman (2014), IIED Human Settlements Working Paper Urbanisation concepts and trends , Gordon McGranahan and David Satterthwaite (2014), IIED Human Settlements Working Paper Urban poverty, food security and climate …
Article, 02 September 2014
Young man with blue and pink dreadlocks surrounded by a crowd wearing pride colours
Heteronormativity in development – what does queer have to do with it?
… and gender diversity are considered ‘too political’ or questions of human and civil rights. This results in the passive exclusion of gender …
Insight, 14 December 2022
Indigenous women in Bangladesh's Lawachara National Park collecting wood for building (Photo: Fabian Lambeck, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
Three ‘E’s to guide the post-2020 biodiversity roadmap
… dictionary definitions help us secure a future where targets for human development and protecting nature work in harmony? Let’s take … Multiscale scenarios for nature futures ’. Links between targets for human development and targets for nature are often overlooked; these … that envisioned a ‘Tasty World with Values’. This is a world where human-nature relations are based on reciprocity, harmony and …
Insight, 06 November 2018
Makeshift camps for internally displaced people sprang up in Kathmandu after the severe earthquake in Nepal in April 2015. Relief workers are struggling to help displaced people find durable shelter as the country braces for the monsoon season (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Crises Learning Fund
Project, 02 November 2020
Lake Bogoria is home to one of the world's largest populations of Flamingos. It has been a protected reserve since 1973. The lake area was the traditional home of the Endorois people, who were forced to leave the area in the 1970s (Photo: Geoffroy Mauvais/IUCN)
It's time to end conservation injustice
… in 1973. The community took its case to the African Commission on Human People's Rights, which found the Kenyan government guilty of … rulings and action on the ground in the locations where human rights abuses are occurring in the name of conservation. Could a … be established and managed in ways that breach agreed international human rights standards for indigenous peoples and local communities. One …
Insight, 17 November 2014
Aerial view of Villa 20, Buenos Aires
Transforming cities, transforming lives
… , the  United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) , IIED, IIED-América Latina  and  German …
Project, 30 June 2021
Man looks at two chimpanzees on a forest path
Q&A: New policy champions communities in the push to conserve Uganda’s wildlife
… and community participation. A number of issues were emerging. The human population was increasing and placing immense pressure on natural resources. Human-wildlife interactions and conflicts were increasing. The 1996 … The policy recognises the role communities can play in mitigating human-wildlife conflicts, detection of wildlife crime and intelligence …
Article, 21 July 2020
At least 339 people were killed and more than 1 million left homeless across Bangladesh and India after Severe Cyclonic Storm Aila in 2009. This photo shows flooded houses and a burst embankment in Sundarbans, in West Bengal, India (Photo: William Lee-Wright, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Denying denial: climate facts and impacts
Insight, 14 February 2017
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Quel avenir pour les agricultures familiales d'Afrique de l'Ouest dans un contexte libéralisé?
… over the last two decades. Adverse climatic conditions and increased human activity have reduced the cultivable land area, so pressure on …
Publication, 01 January 2003
An image of television footage of a man standing instead a destroyed house after Cyclone Roanu hit Bangaldesh (Photo: Google licence)
Cyclone Roanu hits Bangladesh: a story of loss and damage avoided
… to make it back to land in time. This dramatic reduction in loss of human lives was due to an extensive disaster risk management programme … the cyclone was on its way, the country was completely unprepared. Human-induced climate change is not expected to dramatically increase … success story where better disaster preparedness has avoided loss of human lives on a much greater scale. Saleemul Huq ([email protected]) …
Insight, 27 May 2016