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Production, Privatisation and Preservation in Papua New Guinea Forestry
… system as a means of facilitating forestry investment on customary land is investigated, as is the need for continued support of certified … procedures,and incentives for compliance, , whilst forest sector planning, resource development, research and administrative functions …
Publication, 01 January 2002
Raipur in Central India is developing into a major urban centre, but the infrastructure in the city's expanding informal settlements is poor (Photo: India Water Portal, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
… 'Vulnerable', along with 'sustainable' and 'resilient', are three powerful words that appear so … in tasks and food allocations, in labour markets, in access to land for housing and credit…. Water piped into each home that is safe, … Settlements research group and visiting professor at the Development Planning Unit, University College London. …
Insight, 26 April 2017
Mr Yi, the manager of the processing facility, instructs some of the Mozambican workforce of Mr Forest Ltd (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
A Chinese passion: adding value to Mozambique's timber exports
… wants: local value addition and employment; more efficient wood use; greater concern for long-term forest sustainability; all driven by … exports end up there. But early last year, the Mozambique Ministry of Land, Environment and Rural Development (MITADER) imposed a log export … The quality control throughout means the Chinese customers can use the planks immediately for making furniture. This contrasts with …
Insight, 10 April 2017
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PLA 54: Mapping for change: practice, technologies and communication
… and social change. PGIS aims at placing control on access and use of culturally sensitive spatial data in the hands of those who … in the Category e-Culture  ). Finding a common ground in multi-party land use conflicts using PGIS: lessons from Ghana  by Peter A. Kwaku … by Peter Poole Issue-based case studies PGIS as a sustained (and sustainable?) practice: First Nation Experiences in Treaty 8 BC, Canada  …
Article, 31 March 2006
Forest protest ends in teargas and death - but a green governance movement starts to emerge in Uganda
… the demonstration seems to have resulted from a combination of naive planning and heavy-handed policing. A crowd of perhaps a thousand forest … and palm oil industries are arguably limited no matter where the land is obtained. Well-designed, properly negotiated and transparently … governance issues in their thinking and desires for action. Whilst sustainable development organisations are finding that "mainstreaming" …
Insight, 13 April 2007
An interactive data visual that illustrates the scale and speed of urban transformation that research by IIED has sought to document and describe
IIED's best of 2014: multimedia
… and  to engage and appeal to our audiences,  sometimes we need to use innovative methods of communication. I n the last year we've … over-fishing and climate change. The animation produced by our Sustainable Markets Group  was also designed to promote an online … how he has contributed to convert large areas of abandoned degraded land into productive fields. The presentation on SlideShare  includes a …
Insight, 12 January 2015
COP20 begins in Lima, where negotiators have gathered to discuss action to tackle global climate change (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
IIED at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP20)
Event, 01 December 2014
Urban-rural linkages have been 'beefed up' in the latest draft of the UN's Open Working Group on the Sustainable Development Goals
OWG 'zero draft' is a huge step forward: now let's get practical
… mapping.  Likewise, the target on eradicating extreme poverty should use nationally determined, locally differentiated poverty lines that … beefed up by the addition of targets on trade-distorting subsidies, sustainable and resilient food systems, market stability, conduct of … number. For IIED, the key areas for targets include: Secure tenure of land and other natural resources Incorporating environmental degradation …
Insight, 20 June 2014
A Coca-Cola sign outside a small town in Benin. Bloomberg’s new health initiative will support cities to reduce the consumption of sugary drinks, but this isn't the biggest health challenge facing low-income urban residents (Photo: Lorena Pajares, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Bloomberg and public health: did he get it right?
… lower speed limits for road traffic and increase seat-belt and helmet use, and Monitor non-communicable disease risk factors. These are … Their homes are often at high risk of accidental fires and built on land that floods repeatedly. Families struggle with very high infant, … basic infrastructure and services for all urban residents. And as the Sustainable Development Goals say, "leave no-one behind".  David …
Insight, 07 June 2017
Ibadan, Nigeria, a city that has experienced devastating high winds and flooding (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
How risk accumulates in African cities – and ways to break the cycle
… for business and decreased journey times, but the huge amount of land required for its construction has displaced settlements and …  have supported the Kenyan Homeless People's Federation  to use door-to-door numbering, household interviews and satellite images to … donor priorities or research agendas. Meeting the ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals to make cities safe, inclusive and …
Insight, 30 January 2017