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Environment and Urbanization

News, articles and events about IIED’s world-leading Environment & Urbanization journal, which seeks to advance a more socially just and environmentally sustainable urban world through the provision of knowledge, focusing on the global South.

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Drawing of a group of people standing and watching one person fix a sign on a building.

Socio-technical practices for just cities: E&U special issue celebration

Event on 23 February 2026

Aerial view of a village in Uganda flooded.

IIED invites submissions to facilitate discussion around IPCC climate change and cities report

News, 24 July 2025

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Building sustainable housing futures for all: filling the knowledge gap on building materials in informal settlements

Publication, 12 July 2024

Houses surrounded by trees and greenery.

The decarbonisation debate: exploring climate action for equitable cities

Event on 24 June 2024

A seated man talks to a group, while a women alongside watches on. Behind them is a board advertising DPU - the Development Planning Unit at UCL.

Fifty years shaping the urbanisation agenda

Impact story, 21 May 2024

A bearded man stands at a podium with a screen behind him.

Urban legend: one man, 50 years, countless seeds of hope

Long read, 13 May 2024

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Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities

Publication, 15 April 2024

Aerial view of an city with the sea in the background.

Rethinking urbanisation and economic development

Insight, 05 February 2024

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Rethinking urbanization and economic development

Publication, 09 November 2023

Aerial view of housing with metal roofs, palm trees and a river

Environment & Urbanization Better Cities Day

Event on 16 March 2023

Informal housing

Interviews: co-creating pathways to urban equality

Article, 23 November 2022

A man wearing a mask hands a bag to an older woman, who is standing in the doorway of a house.

Top 20 downloaded papers in the journal Environment and Urbanization

Insight, 18 August 2022

Skyline view of a city with houses and short buildings in the front and skyscrapers in the background.

Q&A: Citizen participation in planning − from the neighbourhood to the city

Article, 10 December 2021

Large yellow digger vehicle parked in front of slum dwellings.

Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city

Event on 24 November 2020

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Education and learning for inclusive development

Publication, 15 June 2021

Hundreds of homes are crammed together up the side of a hill

Q&A: Achieving housing rights for all: issues and recommendations

Article, 22 October 2020

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Towards more pro-poor local governments in urban areas

Publication, 01 April 2000

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The urbanization of humanitarian crises

Publication, 01 October 2017

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Climate Change and Cities abstracts from Environment and Urbanization

Publication, 01 February 2018

Houses view from above.

COVID-19 and the housing crisis in the global South – time for change

Event on 05 October 2020

A woman sitting on a raised platform

Urban food insecurity and malnutrition are about more than just food

Insight, 16 October 2019

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 daily savings book: local savings groups collect small payments from slum dwellers which can be leveraged to support slum upgrading projects (Photo: SDI, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Transforming aid for urban areas

Insight, 04 September 2018

In Mexico City, the Metrobus BRT system carries roughly 250,000 people daily. It cuts workers' travel times and also helps to reduce carbon emissions (Photo: City Clock Magazine, Creative Commons via Flickr)

How Bus Rapid Transit can make housing affordable to low-income households

Insight, 06 June 2018

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