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Rethinking post-disaster relocation in urban India
Publication, 01 August 2017
A view of Mafraq City, Jordan
Rethinking humanitarian aid for refugees as investment in urban water and sanitation
… establish a partnership between urban displacement specialists in the Human Settlements research group , civil engineers based at University …
Project, 27 May 2021
Niamey, the capital of Niger, is growing rapidly. Urban ARK is exploring the varied vulnerabilities of boys and girls from conflict-displaced and host communities (Photo: Jean Rebiffé, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK)
… This included understanding how urbanisation processes contribute to human vulnerability and exposure to a wide spectrum of hazards. It … of risk and loss in contemporary African towns and cities. Inadequate human capacity: a key challenge was the lack of capacity among those at …
Project, 21 December 2016
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Christiana Figueres: 2012 Barbara Ward Lecture on an 'energy revolution' (1 Birdcage Walk, London)
… she knew that we have to combine our immediate commitment to meeting human needs with our longer term need to protect the Earth as a place suitable for human life now and in the future... …
Publication, 01 March 2012
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Gender Roles in Urban Climate Resilience: lessons from Hue, Vietnam
… Women are perceived to make a more significant contribution to human well-being, accruing funds and offering mutual support at …
Publication, 01 May 2016
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Dryland resilience-building under a difficult and changing climate - the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon
… national government, humanitarian actors and the IIED Drylands and Human Settlements Programmes, and to explore needs, opportunities and …
Publication, 01 October 2016
A man casting a net
Achieving transformational change for the ocean
… degradation. These mounting pressures threaten both the ocean and human wellbeing.  The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise the … encourages learning about the interactions between environmental and human systems. Complexities in ocean systems means SDG14 requires a …
Insight, 11 June 2019
Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development
… poorer people in poorer countries , much is uncertain. The demand for human labour is clearly not going to disappear – but there are certainly … such as climate change, there are many ways in which putting human effort to work for the environment can be done.   The Mahatma …
Insight, 17 August 2017
Group of seated women looking in the same direction
‘Building back better’ means ‘building back fairer’ after COVID-19
Insight, 31 July 2020
The sky is visible through a forest
Exploring why people eat wild meat – and designing better alternatives
… like humans in a pot – how can you eat something that looks like a human? Also I don’t like the taste of them. Importantly we found real …
Insight, 29 July 2020