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Disrupting urban 'risk traps': Bridging finance and knowledge for climate resilient planning in Lima
Disrupting urban 'risk traps': Bridging finance and knowledge for climate resilient planning in Lima. 22 April 2015. Born out of Learning Lima, new DPU research explores the conditions that produce and reproduce urban ‘risk traps’. How and where…
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Building the evidence-base for Humanitarian Response in Cities
Building the evidence-base for Humanitarian Response in Cities. 20 April 2015. We have just released a major piece of work commissioned by DFID Humanitarian Policy and Partnerships Group, CHASE. The review, looks at the current evidence-base on…
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Habitat III conversations continue: Prepcom 2 in Nairobi
Habitat III conversations continue: Prepcom 2 in Nairobi. 16 April 2015. The second session of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) is convening this week in Nairobi.…
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#1. Urban Crisis and Humanitarian Responses: A Literature Review
1. Urban Crisis and Humanitarian Responses: A Literature Review. 10 April 2015. Authors: Donald Brown,Janani Vivekananda,Crises, such as disasters, forced migration, conflict and violence are occurring in urban areas with increasing frequency and…
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Discussions on Habitat III pick up speed at 14th World Social Forum
Discussions on Habitat III pick up speed at 14th World Social Forum. 24 March 2015. Civil society groups are currently discussing their expectations of the Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) at…
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Managing the City Economy
Managing the City Economy. 15 March 2015. By Le-Yin Zhang. Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (19 Mar. 2015). ISBN-10: 0415661765. ISBN-13: 978-0415661768. In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length…
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Can better social protection support inclusive development in Ethiopia?
Can better social protection support inclusive development in Ethiopia? 12 March 2015. A consortium consisting of the DPU, Adi Grat University in Northern Ethiopia and the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA) have secured…
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Urban Africa Risk Knowledge: Urbanisation, poverty and disaster risk in sub-Saharan Africa
Urban Africa Risk Knowledge: Urbanisation, poverty and disaster risk in sub-Saharan Africa. 10 March 2015. DPU is a key part of a research consortium that has been awarded £3.3 million from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and…
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Policymakers attend student presentations on tackling economic development in London
Policymakers attend student presentations on tackling economic development in London. 25 February 2015. On the first Friday of February students from the MSc Urban Economic Development delivered the findings of a series of mini consultancy…
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DPU summerLab 2014 pamphlet now out - free download
The DPU summerLab 2014 series pamphlet is now available online.…
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