Cities
Cities need to handle climate-displaced people with dignity
Cities, no doubt, are aspirational and most people want to move into them for upgrading their stands of living. However, a lot of these […]
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Cities
Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing
Women and girls make up over half of the world’s IDPs, 5 million IDPs are living with disabilities, an estimated 2.6 million are elderly, […]
Cities
Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change
In the next three decades, it is expected, humanity would have turned an exclusively urban species. By then almost 80 to 90 percent of […]
Cities
Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?
Ambika Chawla Multi-stakeholder partnerships that include displaced people in the process show promise for helping overwhelmed communities deal with an influx of climate migrants […]
Cities
A slum after the storm!
How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through Odisha […]
Cities
The Hidden Problem: Shadows of Mental Stress Over Urban Adolescents
Seama Mowri In urban slums of Dhaka, a research team encountered several stories of manipulative suicide threats and evidence of mental angst among both […]
Disasters
What Kenya’s biggest slum can teach us about saving cities from floods
Katie G. Nelson An innovative design firm is using data and community outreach to protect Nairobi’s poorest residents from devastating storms. Orignially posted at […]