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Cover for G00525.pdf
Environment and Urbanization
… and post this questionnaire to: Environment and Urbanization, Human Settlements Programme, IIED, 3 Endsleigh Street, London, WC1H ODD, …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Can hunting wildlife contribute to biodiversity conservation?
… associated with the protection of nature and wildlife, and not of human populations. So historically strategies have removed people from … to manage resources. Biodiversity is intrinsically linked to the human institutions that surround it as people often depend upon …
Insight, 19 November 2010
You are what you (m)eat
… inputs, are more likely to use inputs that cannot be used for human consumption, and typically offer greater socio-economic … eating alternative cuts of meat that are typically less in demand for human consumption and therefore more likely to go to waste - offal for …
Insight, 07 October 2010
Women sort plastic bottles for recycling in Seema Puri, Delhi.
Book challenges policymakers with new portrait of urban poverty
… in poverty in towns and cities worldwide will have a major impact on human development," says co-author David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow …
News, 11 December 2012
Cover for G01735.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 15 From invisible work to collective action: research and participation with women from the fishing communities of the Amazonian coast
Publication, 01 January 1997
A 'peace wall' in Mukuru, one of the largest slums in Nairobi, Kenya (Photo: Urban ARK)
A special approach to slum upgrading: the Special Planning Area in Mukuru, Nairobi
… world.  David Dodman ([email protected]) is director of IIED's Human Settlements research group , and a co-investigator of Urban ARK. …
Insight, 18 October 2017
Cover for G00049.pdf
Climate Change And Development Consultation On Key Researchable Issues Sectoral Issues Section 2.4. Coastal Zones
… subject because of the sheer diversity of environments and range of human activity along coastal zones. About 40 percent of the world's … climate change trends and variability. Unfortunately, unsustainable human activity in coastal and marine systems means that many regions are …
Publication, 01 January 1970
Cover for 7382IIED.pdf
Maasai Rights in Ngorongoro, Tanzania
… some 40,000 Maasai pastoralists, who have been struggling for their human and civil rights since 1958 when they were resettled in the …
Publication, 01 January 1998
Delegates at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP20) in Lima, Peru (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
D&C Days in Lima to highlight 'historic opportunity' to reduce poverty and emissions to zero (#zerozero)
News, 04 December 2014
Large-scale international investments in Cameroon have highlighted the importance of protecting the land rights of rural people (Photo: World Agroforestry Centre, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Legal activism key to securing land rights in new investment phase
… Kenya's Ogiek people secured a landmark win at the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights after decades of forced evictions from their …
Insight, 28 March 2018