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Environment & Urbanization Better Cities Day
… SAGE , Environment & Urbanization (E&U)  is a world-leading biannual environmental and urban studies journal that seeks to advance a more … (IIHS) Tom Mitchell is director of IIED Aditya V. Bahadur  is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group Andrea Nightingale …
Event, 16 March 2023
IIED research and evidence in academia
… how the policy–reality gap might be better bridged. Featuring IIED principal researcher Alejandro Guarín and associate Emma Blackmore . Recalibrating … resilience, solutions and priorities at the global scale  (2022), Environmental Science & Policy journal This paper collates the findings …
Article, 23 September 2020
IIED's best of 2021: blogs
… the key to saving nature April : Our most read blog of the year saw principal researcher Krystyna Swiderska argue how mainstream Western economics is … and enhanced biodiversity for millennia are now threatened by environmental policies that often fail to recognise the value of …
Article, 23 December 2021
Community-led waste management at scale
… focused on the problems of uncontrolled dumping, moving on to environmentally-safe disposal and gradually introducing criteria to … for countries with skilled labour, technical capacity, stringent environmental regulations, strict monitoring of violations and tight … to sorting and recovery, to processing and transporting. It is their principal local supplier of feedstock. But local governments still …
Blog, 12 April 2022
Will COVID-19 leave fuel-rich African countries gasping for breath?
… oil. It is a great irony that fossil fuels, long blamed for the environmental stranglehold exacted on climate sensitive sectors, are now … move to a carbon neutral world, where fossil fuels became the principal enemy, Africa will need to look to new economic activities and … is based on an article published by UNU INRA .   … Fatima Denton … Economics … Natural resource management … Will COVID-19 leave fuel-rich …
Blog, 27 April 2020
COVID-19: IIED in the media
… loss together. Large-scale debt swaps would help tackle poverty and environmental destruction as debtor nations must do what they promise in … 27 May 2020 | Thomson Reuters Foundation – Lorenzo Cotula, IIED's principal researcher on law and sustainable development, writes that reports …
Article, 14 April 2020
Navigating ocean investments
… and ways to measure them is vital to delivering the desired environmental and social impacts. Governments engaged in collaborative … This covered about 70% of initial funding; grants cover the rest. Principal repayment will start in 2020 if specified environmental and … ', Laura Kelly, Annabelle Bladon (2019), IIED briefing   Contact … Economics … Fisheries … Natural resource management … Insights: linking …
Article, 01 October 2019
IIED and partners call for cities to develop a proactive response to urban displacement
… was jointly drafted by  Dr Isis Nuñez Ferrera  from JIPS, IIED principal researcher Lucy Earle , and Dyfed Aubrey and  Stephanie Loose … place behind. IIED's Human Settlements research group addresses urban environmental issues at all levels – with local grassroots partners, …
News, 10 June 2020
Q&A: Achieving sustainable intensification of agriculture – decisions and trade-offs
… year project. Here, the project lead Barbara Adolph , principal researcher in IIED’s Natural Resources research group , talks about why … about increasing agricultural productivity without harmful social and environmental impacts. It recognises that there are many agricultural …
Article, 17 February 2020
IIED's best of 2020: publications
… to inform more inclusive, affordable shelter interventions. IIED principal researcher Lucy Earle discussed some findings from an informal … met with both hopes for, and concerns about, the ultimate social, environmental and economic impacts. Greater reliance on foreign …
Article, 23 December 2020