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3 October 2024
Podcast: The 24-hour Risk City – Lessons from Nairobi and Karachi
Extreme heat, altered rain patterns, and flooding events, amplified by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles...
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29 August 2024
Just and Resilient Infrastructures in Pakistan and Kenya
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The relationship between infrastructure development and intensifying climate crisis is generating new cycles of 24-hour risks in the urban global South. Research from Karachi and Nairobi points to opportunities to build resilient infrastructures that strengthen and support community networks and inclusion.
Working Paper
29 August 2024
The 24-Hour Risk City: A Framework for Thinking About Building Infrastructures of Climate Repair in Nairobi and Karachi
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Extreme heat, altered precipitation patterns, and flooding events, exacerbated by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles faced by low-income neighbourhoods and informal settlements in the urban global South.
Project
Building Infrastructures of Climate Repair in the 24-Hour Risk City: Learning from Karachi and Nairobi
This project juxtaposes the notion of the 'good city' and the classical idea of the topos of the good life in tension with the concept...
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High Level Panel of Experts Report on Social Protection and Food Security
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested the HLPE to produce a report, to be presented at the 39th Session of the CFS, a study on social protection and food security.