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Lillies spread over a pond; cities must be governed and managed well to ensure population growth is sustainable (Photo: hqworld)
Cities on the twenty-ninth day
… reached in 2008). Per person wealth was $6500 and, amazingly, average human life expectancy doubled to 78 years. In 2100, five of the world's … should give everyone pause.  The paper suggests the last doubling of human population will mostly be driven by South Asia and Africa. And …
Insight, 03 October 2016
Pick-up van packed with people and suitcases.
Climate-induced migration and vulnerability to modern slavery
… driving migration and creating vulnerability to modern slavery, human trafficking and forced labour within borders and cross border. …
Project, 17 September 2021
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Conservation standards: from rights to responsibilities
… The vast body of international law, norms and standards protecting human rights offers little rights-based, practical guidance for …
Publication, 01 August 2016
Populations of bees, butterflies and other pollinators are declining, posing potential risks to important world food crops (Photo: Brian McGill)
The economics of mass extinction
… natural capital can be easily and almost indefinitely replaced by human-built capital, when in fact nature and human-built capital are both required for prosperity; for example, … so that they cannot be squandered. As our research makes clear, all human prosperity rests on nature, and Mr Monbiot is correct to point out …
Insight, 29 May 2018
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Muungano nguvu yetu (unity is strength): 20 years of the Kenyan federation of slum dwellers
… around slums, Muungano pushed locally for the recognition of slums as human settlements. And as the space for slums developed Muungano …
Publication, 01 January 2017
The April 2105 Nepal earthquake destroyed more than 500,000 buildings in Kathmandu. There was a huge international aid effort, but reconstruction has been slow (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Crises Learning Partnerships
Project, 11 May 2017
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Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
Insight, 31 May 2019
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Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks
… livelihoods. We need to understand their value for the protection for human settlements and coastlines – and coastal ecosystems, wetlands, …
News, 08 June 2016
Maurice Strong at the High Level Dialogue on Global Sustainability, Rio de Janeiro, June 2012 (Photo: Sergio Greif, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Remembering Maurice Strong, pioneering environmental champion
… creators, his involvement stemming from the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972. Stockholm was the first of a … He urged Barbara to become involved with the UN Conference on Human Settlements in 1976. She wrote 'Home of Man', the theme book for … the conference and the catalyst for IIED's established and respected human settlements work. Maurice was one of the great men of the last …
Insight, 04 December 2015
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Protecting civilians in urban sieges: how to best support ‘first responders’
… on besieged civilians targeted by deliberate aerial bombing and human rights abuses. Local actors, some with an overt humanitarian …
Publication, 01 March 2017