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Rights on the edge of the city: the right to water and the peri-urban water committees of Cochabamba
… characterised by high degrees of informality, implementing the human right to water poses certain practical and political challenges. …
Publication, 01 November 2015
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An Analysis of Sanitation Policies in Southern Africa: the case of gender policies in sanitation in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… Access to sanitary means of human excreta, solid waste and wastewater disposal is regarded as a universal need and, indeed a basic human right, which is key to human development and poverty alleviation. It is in the light of the …
Publication, 01 January 2006
What do we want to measure?
What does successful adaptation look like, and what do we want to measure in the context of adaptation, national development and SDGs?
… and adaptive capacity (adaptation performance) development outcomes: human and environmental wellbeing (development performance) climate …
Event, 28 June 2018
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'Land grabbing' and international investment law: toward a global reconfiguration of property?
… natural resource squeeze: ‘land grabbing’, investment treaties and human rights (first link below) provides a fuller summary of the main …
Publication, 01 October 2016
Radical new way to protect nature’s diversity provides incentives and helps tackle poverty
… failed and biodiversity is declining faster than at any other time in human history. Our proposal for biocredits would help reverse this …
News, 03 March 2020
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Lessons on Monitoring and Reporting from the MDGs and Other Major Processes
… Change (UNFCCC), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the UN Human Rights Commission’s system of Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR). …
Publication, 01 May 2015
A protest march
Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice
… discourse and ground technical debates in practical realities. The human rights-based approach to development is vital but is sometimes … and a clampdown on organisations critical of government responses to human rights issues, have been on the rise.  More positively, powerful …
Insight, 14 May 2020
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The Role of Traditional Knowledge and Crop Varieties in Adaptation to Climate Change and Food Security in SW China, Bolivian Andes and coastal Kenya
… question is whether the climatic changes observed in these cases are human induced climate change or just natural changes. The findings show … (in the last 10 or 20 years), suggests that they may be the result of human induced climate change. …
Publication, 01 September 2011
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Demographic data as a tool for adaptation planning
… and actions. Increasingly nuanced understanding of what drives human vulnerability to climate change recognises both physical hazards, …
Publication, 01 December 2013
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Growing a green economy in Africa: why forests matter
… ‘green economy’ approach to the forest sector, which seeks to improve human wellbeing and social equity while reducing environmental risks and …
Publication, 01 August 2015