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Urban ARK 22: Filling the data gaps on every day and disaster risks in cities; the case of Ibadan
… events at all scales. This is a major limitation to effective planning for risk reduction. This briefing describes how a research team … Urban … Urban ARK 22: Filling the data gaps on every day and disaster risks in …
Publication, 01 January 2019
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Urban ARK 1: Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge – A Research Agenda
… are rising to the challenge. But they need better information on urban risks and more action at the local level. There is a need to bring … risk management fields to tackle the spectrum of different risks. Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK), based in nine cities across sub-Saharan Africa, aims to …
Publication, 01 January 2017
A view of the migrant informal community of Marathahalli, Bengaluru
‘Participatory’ adaptation plans aren’t working for migrants in cities
Insight, 09 May 2019
A soup stall in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Many of the urban poor rely on frequent food purchases, often cooked food prepared by street vendors (stefans_box, Creative Commons via Flickr)
How the urban poor define and measure food insecurity
… As urban centres grow rapidly, inadequate housing and the lack of basic … to the food security and nutrition of the urban poor? How does urban planning affect access to food and its utilisation? How do people manage … themselves during ongoing crises (conflict, floods and so on) and disasters (earthquake)? What initiatives and policies have proved to be …
Project, 14 March 2018
An image of a crowd of members of the USaid Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) team rescue a teen in the Gongabu, Kathmandu District, five days after the Nepal earthquake in April 2015 (Photo: USaid, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
Collaborations in urban humanitarian response – introducing the Global Alliance for Urban Crises
… humanitarian system can best respond to crises arising from natural disasters, conflict and protracted displacement. The summit saw the launch of the Global Alliance for Urban Crises , which prioritises a more collaborative approach that will … a Nepali NGO with a long history of working to support organised urban communities, in partnership with Oxfam Nepal. Supporting and …
Insight, 31 May 2016
A view over a large township
Internal and international influences on urban change
… what causes or influences it and the spatial distribution of urban populations is complicated. Many (local, regional, national and … interactions need to be considered, often in the context of rapid urban population growth . We need to examine how urban change is … resilience. But there are also increasing numbers of extreme weather disasters to which climate change contributes with devastating impacts …
Insight, 27 May 2020
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 … negative impacts on agriculture and on rural populations . In urban areas, the location where women squat is usually on land that was … It would also limit the depletion of valuable resources destroyed by disasters. It would improve their ability to climb out of the difficult …
Insight, 11 June 2021
Houses on stilts along a river
Huge population growth in major river deltas puts tens of millions at increased risk from climate change floods
… an export market. As a result, China has seen much higher rates of urban growth in low-level delta areas, despite the growing risks. … delta regions, and both hazards and urban populations increasing, planning for existing and future cities will need to become far more … and equitable than it is now to avoid a serious increase in major disasters. “Evidence from the past 25 years suggests that people are not …
News, 26 September 2023
A woman walks along a bamboo walkway in Iloilo, Philippines.
Study identifies political leadership as No. 1 issue in managing disaster risk
… history over 50% of the world’s population now live in cities and urban areas. The majority of the 200 million people affected by floods, … today at the World Urban Forum in Naples, said: “Economic losses to disasters have averaged at least US$100 billion annually over the last … are: 1. Taking disaster risk reduction into account in new urban planning regulations, plans and development activities; 2. Establishing …
News, 04 September 2012
A typhoon hits shanties in Manila. Urban governments, which are already struggling to provide basic infrastructure services, also need to build resilience to climate change (Photo: Ernie Penaredondo/Global Water Partnership, Creative Commons via Flickr)
The SDGs and 'a new urban agenda'?
… and funding architecture? I want to explore this in relation to urban areas that now house four billion people and most of the world's … are driving anthropogenic climate change. And they include a billion urban dwellers living in overcrowded boarding houses and informal … much of the mitigation; and urban governments will be responsible for planning and managing the necessary integration with disaster risk …
Insight, 08 September 2015