Items tagged:
Environment and Urbanization
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Urban food insecurity and malnutrition are about more than just food
Food insecurity, malnutrition and obesity are increasingly becoming urban issues, affecting the health of millions of children and adults. The new issue of Environment & Urbanization looks at the wider context of urban food and nutrition security and the challenges for policymakers
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‘Participatory’ adaptation plans aren’t working for migrants in cities
A paper in the latest issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization highlights how urban plans for adapting to climate change often leave out migrant populations living in informal settlements. Guest bloggers Eric Chu and Kavya Michael call for a rethink.
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Transforming aid for urban areas
There is a new way to finance community-driven development, working with local funds set up and managed by grassroots organisations. This can work well at scale with local governments to meet basic needs and reduce urban poverty. David Satterthwaite explains why it’s time external agencies took note of this
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How Bus Rapid Transit can make housing affordable to low-income households
A paper in the latest issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization explores how affordable public transport – via a Bus Rapid Transit system – can make housing affordable for low-income groups. David Satterthwaite describes how a roll-out of this public transit could work in Mumbai
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Q&A: How to negotiate safe access to gang-ruled neighbourhoods in areas of urban crises
In the latest issue of Environment & Urbanization, Moritz Schuberth examines the added difficulties humanitarian actors face when dealing with crises in urban neighbourhoods ruled by gangs. Schuberth studied the neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake to find out how agencies can deliver the most effective response
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Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'
Urban centres can be among the world's most healthy places to live and work – but many are among the least. How healthy they are is powerfully influenced by local government competence, local information, and support for local action
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Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas
For the billion urban dwellers living in informal settlements, there are many risks – for instance, from contaminated water, to accidental fires, to flooding. Those who are more susceptible to these or less able to cope are termed vulnerable. But they are not vulnerable if the risks are removed. We need to focus more on removing the risks and less on endless lists of 'vulnerable groups', argues David Satterthwaite
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Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?
Whose lives are most at risk in urban areas of the global South – for instance from preventable diseases and disasters? And what are the most serious risks they face?
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The new Trump index: how much does one individual threaten the planet?
An index from 2001 needs updating to reflect how policies championed by US President-elect Trump threaten global ecological sustainability
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Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?
A new report suggests that most of the world's largest cities in 2100 will be in Africa – including many with over 40 million inhabitants. This blog suggests growth in numbers will hinge more on the extent of economic development
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The shifting power of cities
Population predictions for the world's largest cities in the 21st century (part 2): New figures show the population of the world's largest cities set to soar. This rapid growth calls for better, more sustainable cities
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Cities on the twenty-ninth day
Population predictions for the world's largest cities in the 21st century (part 1): rapid urbanisation, if managed sustainably, could ease the pressure of exponential growth set for urban areas
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IIED at Habitat III
IIED and its partners will be at Habitat III, which takes place from 17-20 October in Quito, Ecuador
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IIED and Habitat III
The third global UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, Habitat III, took place in Ecuador in October 2016. This page sets out how IIED engaged with Habitat III
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Facing an increasingly urban world
An estimated 54.5 per cent of the world's population live in urban areas, compared with 37.9 per cent 40 years ago. In this context, can Habitat III deliver the 'new urban agenda' we need?
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Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?
Efforts to better accommodate rural migrants moving to cities could play an important part in resolving conflicts in the 2030 Agenda and ensuring no-one is left behind
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Comparing approaches to riverbank vulnerability in Indonesia
What lessons can be learned from two markedly different cases of vulnerability among urban riverbank settlements in Indonesia?
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Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem
Can understanding how people perceive sanitation help achieve sustainable access to sanitation in cities?
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Urbanisation and emerging population issues
Urbanisation is a defining trend of our time. IIED worked with partners around the world to promote the benefits of urbanisation while avoiding its destructive tendencies
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New publication looks at environmental impacts of urban areas
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has published a new guide to the environmental impacts of urban areas authored by IIED's David Satterthwaite
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World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'
On World Toilet Day on 19 November, our photoblog details the work of IIED and its partners to tackle the fact that 2.5 billion people lack access to basic sanitation
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New approach paves way to manage violence in cities in the global South
Violence in African, Asian and Latin American cities can no longer be seen as a problem that can be challenged and overcome through development programmes, says new research in Environment and Urbanization
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Environment & Urbanization local organisation profiles
The journal Environment & Urbanization has published many profiles of local organisations; some are listed below with short summaries
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Warning over race to reshape African cities as "urban fantasies"
Plans to reshape cities across Africa in the style of Dubai and Singapore threaten to deepen social inequalities and could prove costly to both investors and city authorities, according to a paper in the April 2014 edition of Environment and Urbanization.
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Slum-dwellers show that revolutions are not built in a day
Slum dwellers across Africa and Asia have used new tactics to achieve social justice and urban rights.
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Urbanization: A double-edged sword for women
Urbanization is often associated with greater independence and opportunity for women – but also with high risks of violence and constraints on employment, mobility and leadership that reflect deep gender-based inequalities.
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Rethinking finance for development in city ‘slums’
The Asian Coalition for Community Action is challenging the traditional model of aid by providing small grants to low-income communities to upgrade the ‘slums’ or informal settlements in which they live.
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6th World Urban Forum: will the agenda of slum and shack dwellers ever get considered?
David Satterthwaite asks why representatives from the federations and networks of slum or shack dwellers were absent from almost all the official events and wonders when their priorities will get the attention they deserve.
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Why enumeration counts: documenting by the undocumented
People living in informal settlements are often deliberately left out of official surveys and maps. Now they're documenting themselves.
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What happens when slum dwellers put themselves on the map
The new issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization – published today – reveals how organisations of the ‘illegal’ urban poor have made themselves matter to city governments by mapping and documenting their informal settlements and the people and businesses in them.
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Environment and Urbanization
Keep up to date with key themes with this twice-yearly journal, and join the debate with thousands of subscribers across Africa, Asia and Latin America
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New issue of 'Environment and Urbanization' - Vol 21, No 2. 'Secure land for housing and urban development'
In urban areas, the struggle by low-income groups to get housing and basic services is often a struggle to get land on which to build or to get tenure of land they already occupy.
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New issue of Environment and Urbanization: City governance and citizen action II
The magazine includes an editorial and several papers discussing the roles of mayors and civil servants in addressing urban poverty.
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Addressing the needs of urban children and adolescents
Not enough is known about practical and effective ways of addressing children's interests within urban development. Their concerns are rarely taken into account in most planning decisions, community development projects or housing and neighbourhood upgrading schemes.
