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Urbanization and Development: Policy lessons from the BRICS experience
… Urbanization and urban growth are intricately intertwined with economic growth — and the … no exception. The BRICS’ vastly different individual experiences of ‘urban transition’ offer inspiring examples of how to seize … urbanization’s role in the development efforts of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and to identify the key policy …
Publication, 01 December 2012
A street scene with pedestrians, stallholders, motorbikes and cars
Making Indian cities inclusive means making them more walkable
… In dimly lit parts of Bengaluru, India, placing a foot wrong on an evening stroll can lead to a nasty … Indian cities are getting less safe  In the last few decades, India’s urban population has grown rapidly. Without suitable policies and infrastructure to manage growth, this has resulted in urban sprawl and traffic congestion, made worse by inadequate quality …
Insight, 05 June 2019
Urban environment Argentina. Photo: Mark Edwards
Urbanization: A double-edged sword for women
… Institute for Environment and Development. "Unless policymakers, urban planners and development agencies understand these differences, … will fail to meet its potential to improve the lives of all urban citizens." The journal’s editorial – available online here – … a project working with girls and boys with disabilities in Mumbai, India; and, the particular roles of women in seeking to get better …
News, 10 April 2013
A partially obstructed drain in Gangtok city, Sikkim (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)
Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
… city planners and officials in their work. We visited two cities in India where planners are using a 'learning-based approach' to manage … A learning-based approach can be used to bring a wide range of urban stakeholders together to debate the right approach or plan using … Pradesh to understand more how these ideas actually work in practice. Urban experiences of learning Gangtok is a small city high in the …
Insight, 21 July 2016
A woman burns off plastic in an informal settlement
What women want – part two: to map vulnerability to climate change
… fellow David Satterthwaite, examining different aspects of global urban change. Mapping benefits for everyone Mapping and profiling … federation of slum dwellers ( Muungano wa Wanavijiji ) In Cuttack (India), mapping flood risks at city level In Kisumu (Kenya), enumerating … negative impacts on agriculture and on rural populations . In urban areas, the location where women squat is usually on land that was …
Insight, 11 June 2021
Man types in a laptop, in front of a big screen
Data tales – part five: ‘not so smart’ computing?
… for the buzzwords and eye candy loving fanboys of Smart Cities in India , hoping that their gadgets will fix their cities. And yet, it is … Urban … The transition to a predominantly urban world …
Insight, 08 December 2022
A view of Shanghai's tall buildings
Cities’ development trajectories
… Two previous blogs in this series  focused on what drives or shapes urban change within nations. This blog looks at what drives cities’ … produces a lot of data on nations. Some is broken down into rural and urban – but not to city level. The UN can defend this, for they are … urban population growth came from net rural to urban migration.  India had nine of the 100 largest cities in 2020. Six moved up the …
Insight, 16 June 2020
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Getting food on the table in cities
… inclusiveness. Yet this expansion of knowledge has not extended to urban areas. The current issue of Environment and Urbanization attempts … Cambodia, Nepal, and Namibia. These papers address the links between urban food and community building, gender, health, livelihoods, and of … to urban development in Kolkata; and caste-based segregation in urban India and Pakistan. A wide-ranging paper sets forth some possibilities …
Publication, 01 October 2019
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Towards more inclusive climate change adaptation
… Our understanding of climate change impacts and vulnerability in urban centres has grown rapidly in recent years, as has the number of … networks for adaptation that incorporate Indonesian cities, to urban adaptation in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Several papers … zeroes in on the way urban migrants are particularly affected in India. A common theme is attention to the informal settlements that are …
Publication, 01 April 2019
Demonstrating the use of alternative building materials at the Jinja Building Materials Training Centre, Uganda. (Photo: David Dodman)
Reducing risks to urban health and building climate resilience
Insight, 17 March 2014