Members Seminar – Wellbeing and Protracted Urban Displacement: Refugees and Hosts in Jordan and Lebanon
Abstract Cities, towns and urban areas host a majority of 25 million global refugees. In case of the Syrian civil war, of the 5 million...
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Abstract Cities, towns and urban areas host a majority of 25 million global refugees. In case of the Syrian civil war, of the 5 million...
Our health and nutrition work brings new understanding and action on health tackling epidemics, antimicrobial resistance and zoonotic...
Cities have a distinctive role in development processes: they are focal points for economic growth, jobs and innovation but...
Published by: IDS
This Operational Practice Paper explores how better understandings of the ways in which the functioning of cities as systems interacts...
Published by: IDS
Lebanon hosts over a million Syrian refugees in addition to other displaced groups. These refugees have gravitated to urban centres, putting significant pressure on local infrastructure and services.
Published by: IDS
While 20 per cent of Syrian refugees in Jordan reside in camps, the majority live elsewhere including in urban areas. Syrian refugees are experiencing high levels of insecurity, often due to challenges with legal status documentation.
Published by: IDS
The war in Syria, now in its eighth year, has led to the mass exodus of the Syrian people. Lebanon and Jordan have achieved a remarkable feat by hosting millions of refugees, with many having located to urban areas, where the great majority of local populations are already situated.
Published by: Elsevier
In this paper we present the case for understanding towns and cities in terms of levels of human wellbeing achieved by the people who live in them.