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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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Guns handed in at the start of a disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programme run by the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (Photo: Sophia Paris/UN Photo, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: How to negotiate safe access to gang-ruled neighbourhoods in areas of urban crises

Article, 15 November 2017

This map of the covered and open drains in Jamshed Town, Karachi illustrates how communities have led on installing sewers and drains (Image: Orangi Pilot Project–Research and Training Institute)

Reducing risks in urban centres: think 'local, local, local'

Insight, 08 May 2017

Raipur in Central India is developing into a major urban centre, but the infrastructure in the city's expanding informal settlements is poor (Photo: India Water Portal, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Addressing the needs of vulnerable groups in urban areas

Insight, 26 April 2017

Informal settlements in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta. The World Bank estimates that some 29 million Indonesians live in urban areas with poor access to basic services (Photo: Axel Drainville, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Urban risks: where are the top five biggest blind spots?

Insight, 18 April 2017

Lagos in 2010. Under different scenarios, Lagos could have 61 million inhabitants in 2100, or over 100 million (Image: Ricardo Gomes, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Will Africa have the world's largest cities in 2100?

Insight, 07 October 2016

Downtown Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania is on track to have a population over 50 million (Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

The shifting power of cities

Insight, 05 October 2016

Lillies spread over a pond; cities must be governed and managed well to ensure population growth is sustainable (Photo: hqworld)

Cities on the twenty-ninth day

Insight, 03 October 2016

IIED will be participating in a range of event at Habitat III, the global UN summit on urban issues

IIED at Habitat III: event listing

Event on 20 October 2016

An image of an outdoor community meeting in Zimbabwe. Ensuring the perspectives of local people and communities are heard in Habitat III's high-level consultations is a critical part of IIED's work (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

IIED and Habitat III

Article, 23 May 2016

Buenos Aires, Argentina: luxury skyscrapers contrast with a shanty town of small brick dwellings with aluminium roofs. It is estimated that 10 per cent of the city's population lives in informal settlements (Photo: Mark Edwards/IIED)

Facing an increasingly urban world

Insight, 13 May 2016

The Bairro Proletário do Dique in Rio de Janeiro was settled in the 1960s. The local infrastructure remains poor (Photo: Mariana Gil/EMBARQ Brasil, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Is more inclusive urbanisation essential to the 2030 Agenda?

Insight, 02 March 2016

A riverbank settlement in Indonesia illustrates the vulnerability of residents to both flooding and pollution (Photo: Isabelle Lemaire/IIED)

Comparing approaches to riverbank vulnerability in Indonesia

Insight, 08 January 2016

A toilet block in Mumbai, India, where people living in different informal settlements experience distinct forms of inadequate sanitation (Photo: Renu Desai)

Sanitation in informal settlements: a networked problem

Insight, 26 August 2015

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

Archived Project

The rice fields on outskirts of the city of Bandung, Java, Indonesia: urban areas often have damaging impacts on the areas around them (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New publication looks at environmental impacts of urban areas

News, 16 March 2015

A community sanitation facility in Jinja, Uganda (Photo: David Dodman/IIED)

World Toilet Day: People need equality and dignity when they 'have to go'

Insight, 18 November 2014

"Paz" (peace) graffiti in Medellín, Colombia. The text to the right translates as "Mural in tribute to our victims of conflict" (Photo: Cathy McIlwaine)

New approach paves way to manage violence in cities in the global South

News, 15 October 2014

Covers of Environment and Urbanization publications

Environment & Urbanization local organisation profiles

Active Project

The stylish modelling of the Singapore City skyline may not be appropriate for cities in Africa and could deepen social inequalities (Edwin.11: Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)

Warning over race to reshape African cities as "urban fantasies"

News, 13 January 2014

Slum-dwellers show that revolutions are not built in a day

Insight, 22 August 2013

Urban environment Argentina. Photo: Mark Edwards

Urbanization: A double-edged sword for women

News, 10 April 2013

A woman sells cardboard on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan.

Rethinking finance for development in city ‘slums’

Insight, 12 October 2012

Cebu, Phillipines

6th World Urban Forum: will the agenda of slum and shack dwellers ever get considered?

Insight, 07 September 2012

Women are gathered around a paper with squares on it talking.

Why enumeration counts: documenting by the undocumented

Insight, 10 May 2012

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