15 multimedia found
September, 2016
Surat, a city in western India and home to 4.4 million inhabitants, knows all too well the devastating impacts floods can have on people, the economy and the urban environment.Since 1979, there have been five major floods in Surat. The most sever of which occurred in 2006 when...
September, 2016
Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable is now a global goal following the adoption of the post-2015 development agenda in New York in September. Achieving this target –sustainable development goal 11 – is vital...
August, 2016
Climate change will have enormous impacts on urban areas in the developing world. Climate impacts disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable communities. One of the reasons for this is that many of the poorest communities live in informal settlements, often...
June, 2016
“Private sector engagement” has become a buzzword in development and climate practitioners’ and policymakers’ vocabulary. For public decision makers facing constrained public budgets and rising costs of managing climate change, engaging the private...
May, 2016
Infographic: The building blocks of urban resilienceThe Rockefeller Foundation describes Urban Resilience as the capacity of cities (individuals, communities, institutions, businesses and systems) to survive, adapt, and thrive in the face of stress and shocks, and even...