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Women sort plastic bottles for recycling in Seema Puri, Delhi.
Book challenges policymakers with new portrait of urban poverty
… of these live in the global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements that lack adequate water, sanitation, security, health care … 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
New Melones Lake, California, which is facing one of the most severe droughts on record with a state of emergency declared in January (Photo: Ben Amstutz, Flickr, via Creative Commons)
2016 – when global meets local in climate action
… the substantial unmet needs for residents of low-income and informal settlements in a way that limits additional emissions. The powerful … across the full range of our research work – on natural resources, human settlements, sustainable markets and climate change. As we begin 2016 …
Insight, 04 January 2016
A market in Fort Portal (Photo: Sister Haiti, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Making sure Fort Portal's 'modernisation' plan feeds the poor
… Paolo Cravero ( [email protected] ) is a researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group . …
Insight, 11 December 2015
An aerial view of London. Southwark, on the left, is surprisingly undense (Photo: David, Bergin, Emmett and Elliott, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
How can compact cities keep house prices under control?
… Sarah Colenbrander ([email protected]) is senior researcher in IIED's Human Settlements research group and senior economist with the Coalition for …
Insight, 14 September 2017
Annual report 2009/10
… law. The next frontier for the foundation: implementation. Human settlements Extraordinary influence:  the IIED journal Environment and … developments as the only viable high-density model, but an IIED researcher in Karachi reported that incremental development on small …
Page, 21 October 2010
Cover for G01537.pdf
PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 Editorial
… agents included in this special issue. Over the past 18 months, the Human The papers are more about raising crucial Settlements and Sustainable Agriculture questions and identifying key …
Publication, 01 January 1994
Study reveals immense importance of ‘invisible’ water to urban poor
… depend on local wells,” says Dr Gordon McGranahan, head of IIED’s Human Settlements Group. “Far more needs to be done to support the efforts of …
News, 12 November 2010
Cecil the lion, who was controversially hunted and killed last week, is pictured in 2014. But a ban on trophy hunting may not save lions and have unintended consequences (Photo: Vince O'Sullivan, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
IIED's best of 2015: blogs
… Chinese food production and consumption concern us all. IIED senior researcher Seth Cook reported from a workshop in Beijing that analysed … Korea. Guest blogger Loan Diep and David Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements Group, reported on the key issues Where city authorities are …
Article, 22 December 2015
The lives of Vasanthi and Gopal have been transformed by the low-cost toilet provided as part of the Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why sanitation, spearhead of urban improvement in the 19th century, has become the laggard of the 21st
… try to use legal means to hold governments to account for meeting the human right to sanitation (PDF) . It has been estimated (PDF) , however, … sewers (affordability). The resulting system made tenure in the settlements involved more secure by increasing their legitimacy … from. Gordon McGranahan ( [email protected] ) is principal researcher in IIED's Human Settlements Group and team leader on …
Insight, 04 March 2015
COP19: Cities on the agenda at the climate talks
… urban residents (including people living in ‘slums’ and informal settlements) are largely absent. It’s difficult not to draw the … grand venues and decision-making processes. David Dodman is a senior researcher in IIED's human settlements and climate change groups. …
Insight, 22 November 2013