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Informal settlements, Jakarta, Indonesia
Human Settlements research group ways of working
Article, 17 September 2014
Land cleared for palm oil in Riau Province, Indonesia. Only half of Riau's palm oil plantations have official permits (Photo: Wakx, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Law in the natural resource squeeze: 'land grabbing', investment treaties and human rights
… Rural people claim the land as theirs but often have weak rights under national law. The process for allocating land is often opaque – …
Article, 13 October 2016
Cover for G03182.pdf
Development and Climate Days at COP17 schedule
… planning. This is a response to the decision taken last year under the Cancun Adaptation Framework to invite all countries, and …
Publication, 01 December 2011
A boat floating on the water, seaweed is seen underneath.
Negotiators return to the high seas
… organisations. As a result, less than 1% of the high seas are under the strongest form of marine protection from extractive or …
Insight, 07 March 2022
Cover for 17132IIED.pdf
Payments for coastal and marine ecosystem services: prospects and principles
… Yet across the world, these resources are fast-diminishing under the weight of pollution, land clearance, coastal development, …
Publication, 01 June 2012
Woman filling jerry cans with water
Sleepwalking into COP26 collapse – why the UK must drop its aid cuts
… budget cuts send entirely the wrong message to world leaders – that under-delivering for vulnerable countries is OK. Britain is putting …
Insight, 04 May 2021
Pastoralism - Research, policy and practice, Vol 1 No 1
… different levels of mobility and market involvement, and operate under a variety of different land tenure regimes. Pastoralism seeks to …
Publication, 01 January 2010
View of a busy street with clothes stalls and shops and people walking.
Research with refugees: taking care not to cut a long story short
… pass through internal institutional ethics reviews before they get under way. These review processes are often based on ethical principles …
Insight, 28 February 2022
Cover for G03790.pdf
Grievance and redress mechanisms: What should I do when my rights are infringed?
… disputes. It pays particular attention to the redress mechanisms under SAGCOT for matters of compensation and resettlement. …
Publication, 01 March 2014
People walking up a green hill.
Learning from adaptation financing that is working for LDCs and SIDS
… the Fund for Environment and Natural Resources (FONERWA) was set up under the national organic law no. 4/2005, and is investing in public …
Insight, 20 July 2023