While research on climate change and urban violence are independently strong, few efforts have been made to understand the linkages between them. To date, there...
After cyclone Aila hit the coast of Bangladesh in 2009, migration has become the only option for many families whose livelihoods where impaired by the resulting...
Regional climate risk insurances are increasingly popular among policymakers, NGOs and academics alike. However, while initial experiences may well speak in...
WATCH: In this video, Lieutenant General (ret.) Tariq Ghazi, who served as Secretary of Defence in Pakistan, stresses Pakistan's vulnerability to the...
World-wide, cities are on the advance. Today, they host more than half of the world's population and every minute, their population grows by 140 people: 200,000...
Cities are on the sharp end of a range of risks from criminal violence, terrorism and war to demographic pressures, to climate and environmental change. Coastal...
The World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Risks Report, like other recent analyses of global trends, notes “rising political discontent and disaffection,” but also...
Designed to be a conversation starter rather than an exhaustive analysis of the issues, this report* summarizes key ideas on examples of climate change...
WATCH: What does climate security mean for the humanitarian community? Maarten van Aalst, Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, explains why it...
This report takes stock of key developments since the publishing of the independent report A New Climate For Peace commissioned by G7 members. It provides a...
Recently released by the World Bank, Unbreakable: Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters finds that extreme natural disasters cost...
A low-emission transition will require profound changes in terms of infrastructure, business models as well as individual habits. In order to support this...
At the Habitat III conference in Quito, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) launched, ‘Addressing Climate Change in National Urban...
This Book is part of the Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management-series and examines the nexus between water, food and energy as basic resources which...
On 12 May 2016, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) through its Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) launched its annual publication “The Global...
This report explores natural World Heritage sites, which, as large areas of habitat, play an important role in increasing resilience and providing vital...
This paper examines the relevance of cities and city networks in the current international climate policy architecture, especially with respect to the evolution...