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Uncovering ‘Community’: Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work
In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and development more generally, community and its...
Rural Futures
Through our research, policy engagement, teaching and training, we support the emergence of development pathways that deliver both...
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What happened to the global land grab?Cities
Cities have a distinctive role in development processes: they are focal points for economic growth, jobs and innovation but...
Transformation as Praxis: Exploring Socially Just and Transdisciplinary Pathways to Sustainability in Marginal Environments – TAPESTRY
TAPESTRY explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty.
Resilience as a Policy Narrative: Potentials and Limits in the Context of Urban Planning
Published by: Taylor & Francis Online
The aim of this paper is to analyse the emergence of the concept of 'urban resilience' in the literature and to assess its potentials and limitations as an element of policy planning.
Cultures and Disasters: Understanding Cultural Framings in Disaster Risk Reduction
Published by: Routledge
Why did the people of the Zambesi Delta affected by severe flooding return early to their homes or even choose to not evacuate? How is the forced resettlement of small-scale farmers living along the foothills of an active volcano on the Philippines impacting on their day-to-day livelihood routines?
World Disasters Report 2014 – Focus on Culture and Risk
This year, the World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme that looks at different aspects of how culture affects disaster risk reduction (DRR) and how disasters and risk influence culture.
Political Economy of Climate Compatible Development: Artisanal Fisheries and Climate Change in Ghana
Published by: IDS
Interest in prospects for policy processes that contribute to development, climate change adaptation and mitigation, known as ‘climate compatible development’, has been growing in response to increasing awareness of the impacts of climate change.
The Potential and Limits of the ‘Resilience Agenda’ in Peri-urban Contexts
Published by: IDS
Today, it is acknowledged that peri-urban space plays a critical and increasing role role is still poorly understood and peri-urban areas are rarely recognised in the in relation to urban expansion. Yet this different relevant decision-making spheres, leading to the political and economic marginalisation of peri-urban residents, who are often among the poor.