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Ecological Urbanization II
… of how to achieve less ecologically damaging patterns of urban development, despite the many powerful vested interests that oppose … promote better natural resource management; Making more ecologically sustainable mixed residential developments in Cape Town; Combining … AIDs; Redefining child poverty; The constraints on aid agencies and development banks supporting local initiatives; The scope for bottom-up …
Publication, 01 October 2006
With water shortages in Lebanon, many households have water storage facilities
Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
… Humanitarian agencies and the national government have drawn on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators to gather new data on access to … Health Organisation for the Joint Monitoring Programme to track the Sustainable Development Goal 6 – to ensure access to water and …
Insight, 19 February 2018
The cracked mud of a dried-up reservoir bed, with a dead river-mussel shell in the foreground and an abandoned boat in the background
Strengthening development in the face of the climate crisis and environmental destruction
Insight, 31 October 2019
Members of the Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Development Africa leaders' group. From left to right: Kauna Schroder, Marie-May Jeremie, Juliane Zeidler, Samson Mulonga, Dineo D Gaborekwe, Baboloki Autlwetse, Felix Monggae, Chipanqura Chirara.
Mainstreaming biodiversity and development
… with environmental policy, plans and investment and support both development and biodiversity objectives.  The first phase of the … Seychelles and Botswana – to revise their NBSAP, incorporating development concerns into the plan in order to support poverty reduction … Are you wanting to raise awareness of the benefits of considering sustainable use of biodiversity with people in working in government …
Project, 11 May 2014
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Ecological Urbanization
Publication, 01 April 2006
A large sign in a street
Cities: where public health and climate experts must meet
Article, 24 July 2020
Construction of Hyderabad’s new metro. The first phase, covering 30km and 24 stations, opened in November 2017 (Photo: banjaxx, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities
… foundation countries are likely to depend on a small tax base and development assistance. Transition countries  need to introduce … its residents. Denise Chan is a senior associate in PwC's cities and urbanisation team .  Sarah Colenbrander ( [email protected] ) … Financing sustainable infrastructure: a tale of two cities …
Insight, 09 January 2018
A street in Beirut.
Stronger Cities Initiative
Article, 31 May 2017
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Revealing and Responding to Multiple Health Risks in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan African Cities
… advance urban health and well-being and support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It also highlights the need to strengthen accountable urban …
Publication, 01 June 2018
Screenshot of speakers with text: podcast episode 6
Reimagining refugee futures: cities, not camps? Make Change Happen podcast episode 6
… provides an opportunity to hear our researchers discuss key global development challenges and explain how they are working to support … group ; they are joined by Kevin Johnstone, researcher in our Shaping Sustainable Markets research group .  The episode also features … two experts working in Kenya: Dr Michael Owiso, dean of the School of Development & Strategic Studies at Maseno University, and Dyfed Aubrey, …
Article, 19 June 2020