Representation in climate change negotiations
Climate change negotiations in Durban Since the 28th of November the COP17[1] meets in Durban, South Africa. This is the main annual climate change event in the world and it is characterized by a...
View ArticleThe road to Rio 2012
The trials and tribulations of climate change regulation: an interview with Alain Lipietz. Photo by ©Fora do Eixo No other issue has entered international negotiations with as much urgency as climate...
View ArticleWill 2015 be the year of urban opportunity?
Here at the DPU we’re bouncing out of what has been a very exciting year, celebrating our 60th anniversary, and into a particularly important one in our collective thinking about urban futures. We’re...
View ArticleHow can local innovation respond to climate change in cities?
In the final DPU Breakfast Talk of the term Vanesa Castán Broto was in conversation with Étienne von Bertrab about the role of local responses to Climate Change in urban areas. ‘Channeling’ two recent...
View ArticleIndia’s tea capital can recover from devastating floods – if the government...
Heavy flooding has affected more than a million people in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, with 45 dead and more than 200,000 in relief camps. However, there is still very little coverage of...
View ArticleAcademic debate on urban challenges and development – collaborative consumption
Recently I presented a paper on degrowth as a solution towards sustainability by stressing the need to shift from being owners to just consumers at the Regional International Geographic Union (IGU)...
View ArticleJust Sustainabilities and the New Urban Agenda
Originally published by Urban Transformations Will 2016 be an urban year in international development policy? In September 2015, the United Nations Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals...
View ArticlePlaying with goldfish: Engaging people through games in the age of the...
Research in the age of the falling attention span There is undeniably a great amount of social science research produced around the world. In the field of development, much of it aims to inform the...
View ArticleClimate-induced resettlement risk
I attended the Hugo Conference in Liège/Luik, Belgium from the 3rd – 5th Nov. 2016. The conference marked the creation of The Hugo Observatory for Environmental Migration at the University of Liège,...
View ArticleThe Amazonian city in Peru at crossroads
The contemporary urbanisation of Amazonas is a geopolitical creation, and a recent phenomenon. For long time native communities have been living in sparse, often isolated, settlements. Adapting to the...
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