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Urbanisation Concepts and Trends
… Paper reviews some key conceptual issues and summarises urbanisation trends. It ends with a brief review of urbanisation and sustainable … while urbanisation brings serious challenges, attempts to inhibit urbanization through exclusionary policies are likely to be … Urbanisation Concepts and Trends …
Publication, 01 June 2014
A settlement in Chabahil, an ancient town near Kathmandu in Nepal. Many countries use different definitions or 'urban' (Photo: Gordon McGranahan/IIED)
Urbanisation and emerging population issues
Project, 15 June 2015
Woman carrying a child
Bringing urban refugees into local planning
… Other blogs in this series have examined historical trends in urbanisation and unpacked the local, national and …
Insight, 20 July 2020
Myanmar is undergoing rapid economic change and urbanisation. Many new settlements like this one in Lashio lack basic services (Photo: Alex Drainville)
Introduction to urbanisation and rural-urban linkages
… Dodman (2014), IIED Human Settlements Working Paper Urbanisation concepts and trends , Gordon McGranahan and David Satterthwaite (2014), IIED Human … and Susannah Fisher (2013), IIED Human Settlements Working Paper Urbanization, gender and urban poverty: paid work and unpaid carework in …
Article, 02 September 2014
A view from high up of a city with tower blocks, framed by the sky.
Can global reporting bring about transformation?
… we saw it as a unique opportunity to communicate the approaches, concepts and findings of the KNOW programme. We recognised its potential … political power in ways that advance human rights and disrupt the trends that have been reproducing discrimination, exclusion and …
Insight, 12 October 2022
IIED produced an animation to raise awareness of the SDGs and the potential of the new development agenda (Image: IIED/Hands Up)
Global goals for sustainable development
Insight, 02 September 2015
Top publications of 2018
IIED's best of 2018: publications
… and then examine how equity relates to the more widely understood concepts of rights, governance, social impact and human wellbeing. This … what can be done to foster them. It calls for action to reverse these trends, in order to put diversity back in our farming systems and on our … this work:  The research project has wrapped up but for more on the concepts and IIED’s research see Conditional transfers for poverty …
Article, 21 December 2018
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PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 2 Are some participatory' techniques culturally biased? (Or: are we hooked on mom's apple pie?)
Publication, 01 January 1993