Urban Environment

'Population Dynamics and Climate Change' book

Climate change is already impacting populations and ecosystems around the globe and threatens to set back develoment efforts by decades, profoundly affecting us all. The defining challenge of the 21st century is to combine a rapid reduction in poverty and inequiality with a rapid reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. Meeting this challenge requires an understanding of how the size, structure and dynamics of human populations influence, and are influenced by, our changing climate.

Local Organizations - Introduction

These pages focus on the role of local organizations in development and environmental management. Many profiles of local organizations can be downloaded at no charge.

Innovative design could transform urban planning in developing countries

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 18/03/2010 - 14:55

A new vision of urban planning that could positively transform the way cities grow across the developing world in the 21st Century was presented in a study issued today.

Afloat: Bangladesh adapts to climate change

’In the nighttime we are sleeping, but we are all afraid of big storms, because then we might all die. There is water everywhere. We are in the middle.’

Video: Water was a Dream - part 1 of 4

'Water was a Dream' is a film describing IIED-America Latina's involvement in the improvement of water supply and sanitation services in three low-income urban settlements of Buenos Aires. It illustrates the challenges and strategies, and examines the key issues related to working in collaboration, using information as a driver for change, finance mechanisms, and scaling up.

Expert Group Meeting on Population Dynamics and Climate Change

London. June 09

Papers from this meeting are now available as downloadable pdfs.

New issue of Environment and Urbanization: City governance and citizen action II

The April 2009 issue of Environment and Urbanization is on the theme of City Governance and Citizen Action. It includes an editorial and several papers discussing the roles of mayors and civil servants in addressing urban poverty. This includes interviews with Mayor Liftchitz, now in his second term in Rosario in Argentina and with four mayors in Colombia.

Human Settlements