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Prioritising positive and negative social impacts of the protected area at Rwenzori Mountain National Park, Uganda (Photo: Rob Small)
Introduction to conservation, communities and equity
… national and international policy retrenchments – particularly around sustainable use of wildlife, the forms this may take and who may benefit from it – … are often ignored – making it impossible for them to protect the land and resources they own or manage. Communities rarely have a voice …
Article, 05 August 2013
The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, is one of the world's largest cities. It is surrounded by rivers and lies only a few metres above sea level. The urban poor living in flood-prone areas are most threatened by climate change (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
The IPCC and an urbanising planet
Insight, 06 November 2014
Turn REDD on its head
… means that communities and the rightful individual owners of forest land must have secure tenure and be able to run viable enterprises based … decisions that can tackle them. Most have got engaged in thinking and planning for REDD. For example, in Indonesia, Ghana, Mozambique, … to improve forest management and people’s livelihoods from the land. So, for example, we must include farming in REDD. Above all we …
Insight, 14 December 2010
A goal worth scoring: Lessons from winning football teams can improve the supply chains of commodities that drive deforestation. Credit: Cusia-Inc
Football’s winning ingredients can help forests in Kenya and Tanzania
Insight, 20 March 2014
Getting water from a tanker in Vijinapura, India. Partnerships between local government and slum/shack dweller organisations can help deliver urban development goals (Photo: cstepin, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Why do we ignore the local processes that deliver global goals in urban areas?
… government with needs and demands it cannot meet, illegally occupying land... Or they can be seen as housing most of the low-paid workforce … allocated. So in discussions at the United Nations on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and now on the new urban agenda (to … Settlements research group and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, University College, London. …
Insight, 16 August 2016
Pastoralists pull water from a well near Denan in the Somali Region of Ethiopia for their camels. (Photo: Andrew Heavens, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Pastoralism and policy training: addressing misconceptions and informing dialogue
… and planners understand the scientific rationale that underpins sustainable pastoralism. It also strengthens pastoralists and their … – including decentralisation, privatisation and foreign investment in land and natural resources – and the constraints and opportunities they … in 2009 to support local government climate-resilient development planning in the drylands.  From 2006, we worked closely with the …
Project, 17 December 2012
The Dolakha FSC-certified community forest user group speaking at the International Forest Connect workshop in Nepal in February 2013 (Photo: Leianne Rolington/IIED)
Focusing support for locally controlled forest enterprise
… is working to reduce poverty and deforestation by better linking sustainable, locally-controlled forest enterprises to each other, … approach. This goes against traditional large-scale single-type land use for economic efficiency. The workshop aided (us) to focus on …
Article, 14 March 2014
Five ways to bring benefits from large dams to local communities
… local customary practices, and especially who has what rights to what land. The study identified five approaches that can overcome these … regulations in agreement with local stakeholders to enable fair and sustainable use of resources • Support local people’s access to the dam’s benefits …
News, 23 November 2011
A view of Shanghai's tall buildings
Cities’ development trajectories
… cities.  To make sense of a city’s development trajectory, we can use what we see; people, buildings and infrastructure (or lack of it). … But if city governments have key roles in (for instance) meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (and now controlling the COVID-19 … is in the informal economy. Large cities also have large housing and land-for-housing markets – but these too may be largely invisible. In …
Insight, 16 June 2020
A photo of a man addressing a conference, pictured through the heads of those listening
Leading on nature: can the new Secretary of State deliver bold action on environment and poverty?
Insight, 31 May 2019