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IIED's best of 2019: publications
… from clean air and water to medicines and secure food supplies. Yet human activities are destroying biodiversity around 1,000 times faster … on how to tackle dangerous declines in biodiversity. 2 Is ecosystem-based adaptation effective? Perceptions and lessons learned from 13 … to community funds supporting climate action to clarify community rights to resources. The project strengthens collaboration with these …
Article, 23 December 2019
Women from Paraguay's Ita Guasu indigenous community discuss their community development plan. Civil debate and value-based decision making will be key to implementing the SDGs (Photo: USAID, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Positioning the SDGs within the politics of national development
… point? International events, from the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm to the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable … each SDG and the related targets.  There is no one 'right' vision or approach. Achieving the SDGs, in spirit or in letter, is only possible … through societal debate, interdisciplinary research and value-based decision making. Inclusion, integration and universality are SDG …
Insight, 12 July 2016
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Green growth and equity must go hand in hand
… Several high-growth countries in Africa having slipped down the Human Development Index . There are also indications that non-inclusive … means building inclusive green economic governance: stronger economic rights, capacities, policies and institutions to support equitable … dialogues in Ethiopia and Cambodia. Read the Ethiopian case study , based on in-country dialogues facilitated by IIED. The OECD also …
Insight, 13 June 2013
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community solutions are the key to tackling wildlife crime
… and combating IWT Seeking to understand and respond to community rights, needs and priorities in designing anti-IWT initiatives … The main objective of the meeting was to explore how community-based interventions can be successful in combatting the illegal use and … trade is becoming ever more pervasive and increasingly impacting on human livelihoods and species conservation. In recent years it has grown …
News, 02 March 2015
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IIED and partners at the UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP14)
… or projects that link the conservation of biodiversity to human livelihood, through the principles of sustainable use. The Nature … principal researcher Krystyna Swiderska. Related reading: Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal … systems- and site-level governance assessments that fully engage rights-holders and stakeholders. This side event presented early …
Event, 17 November 2018
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
… We visited two cities in India where planners are using a 'learning-based approach' to manage this uncertainty to find out how this works in … that could help them and also gave them a better sense of their rights. The women in particular talked about the confidence they had … ;  David Dodman  ( [email protected] ) is director of IIED's  Human Settlements research group .  This visit was part of a broader …
Insight, 21 July 2016
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
… with the ways in which climate change will affect urban health, based on experiences of both the threats and opportunities of managing … days. But perhaps the more significant effects of climate change on human health will be on the ways that gradual changes in the physical … approaches that take multiple factors into account. This type of approach has been adopted in some urban responses to climate change that …
Insight, 17 March 2014
A Conservancy Rhino Ranger in Namibia stands proudly before a cow and calf that he has tracked during a patrol. Rhino sightings have increased over the past 12 months thanks to an expanded Rhino Ranger force and support organisations (Photo: Minnesota Zoo and Save the Rhino Trust)
Community-led solutions: key force in tackling wildlife crime
… and combating IWT Seeking to understand and respond to community rights, needs and priorities in designing anti-IWT initiatives … trade is becoming ever more pervasive and increasingly impacting on human livelihoods and species conservation. In recent years it has grown … Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) , said: "Approaches based on trust building, engagement and empowerment of communities, …
News, 02 March 2015
Mecati Forest, Mozambique: a group of charcoal producers clear trees and prepare to make charcoal. Each year more than eight million bags of charcoal are produced by Mozambique's informal sector (Photo: Mike Goldwater/IIED)
The informal economy and sustainable development
… associate it with lost revenue, unfair competition, low productivity, human rights abuses and environmental degradation; while others associate it … through people's own actions? In Africa, we are carrying out field-based research together with partners in order to understand the value …
Project, 20 January 2016
How can decentralised finance drive sustainable development? A new interactive story produced by IIED's Human Settlements Group highlights successful examples from the global South (Image: Kiln/IIED)
It's the thought that counts: how can Addis deliver for the world’s poorest?
… Dwellers' International and the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights , have developed alternative ways of providing funding based around community savings schemes that pool resources at the … aid. Anna Walnycki ([email protected]) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 08 July 2015