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Camilla Toulmin has led IIED since 2004
Camilla Toulmin to step down in 2015
… in our four principal goal areas – climate change, natural resources, human settlements, and sustainable markets – and is challenging us to focus on …
Insight, 29 October 2014
Street food: the debate on food security must adapt to consider how consumption and urbanisation are transforming rural spaces and economies, food systems and food security (Photo: Cecilia Tacoli/IIED)
If food security is the answer, is it time to change the question?
… revolts in more than 43 countries (PDF) . Around that time, the human population became more urban than rural for the first time ever. … where a third of urban citizens today live in low-income and informal settlements (PDF) . It is therefore critical that policymakers recognise … we think about food. Paolo Cravero ( [email protected] ) is a researcher with IIED looking at research and outreach on consumption, …
Insight, 23 February 2015
Camilla Toulmin: "The IPCC report.. concludes that no parts of the world are free from the risks of 'severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts'" (Photo: Google licence)
IIED responds to IPCC climate change report
… climate change is happening and that all warming since 1951 is due to human activity.  The AR5 report also confirms that climate change is … out of date as more and more scientific evidence accumulates about human induced climate change impacts affecting vulnerable communities. … most at risk, including the billion urban dwellers living in informal settlements. "In low and middle income countries, this has to address …
News, 03 November 2014
The "perils of business as normal": IIED responds to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report
… change is happening, and that all warming since 1951 is due to human activity. The  IPCC  published the final instalment of the Fifth … out of date as more and more scientific evidence accumulates about human-induced climate change impacts affecting vulnerable communities. … most at risk, including the billion urban dwellers living in informal settlements. "In low and middle income countries, this has to address …
News, 03 November 2014
About 1.5 million Syrians are currently in Lebanon. The influx has added complexity to an already fragile system of water provision (Photo: Loan Diep)
Water in MENA: ripple effects in times of conflict
… Diep ( [email protected] ) is a consultant working with IIED's Human Settlements research group . She was previously project officer and researcher for WSUP Advisory . …
Insight, 12 December 2017
IIED produced an animation to raise awareness of the SDGs and the potential of the new development agenda (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals for sustainable development
… framework, the SDGs recognise the inter-relationships between human development and the environmental, economic, social and political … accountability to keep countries on track   Goal 11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. IIED has worked …
Insight, 02 September 2015
Climate change: study maps those at greatest risk from cyclones and rising seas
… change, to help people migrate away from risk and to modify urban settlements to reduce their vulnerability. But it warns that this will … incentives, both of which depend on political will, funding and human capital. Key findings of the study by Gordon McGranahan of the … to derive from national-level data." "The ability to map both human activities and environmental conditions globally has revolutionary …
News, 28 March 2007
Head and shoulders images
Remembering Nigel Cross and Brian Walker, leading lights of IIED
… ‘Our Common Future’ and developed world class research programmes on human settlements, energy, forestry and environmental economics.    A former …
Insight, 16 October 2019
Informal settlements lining the railway tracks in Mumbai (Photo: gloogun, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Ward diaries: crucial evidence for planning in Mumbai's slums
… helps change the negative attitudes of city governments towards these settlements and their inhabitants. Mobilising local action But getting … was drawn from conversations with David Satterthwaite from IIED's Human Settlements research group in September 2016. …
Insight, 28 November 2016
The influx of migrants and refugees onto the island of Lesbos was met with an influx of responders from various sectors who often did not effectively collaborate early on in the response (Tyler Jump/International Rescue Committee)
Finding space for dialogue when urban crises hit
… lessons identified and lessons learnt, as Diane Archer, a senior researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group, explained: "One of the key points coming out …
News, 26 October 2016