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Cities need to handle climate-displaced people with dignity

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

Cities

4 Nov

Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing

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

Cities

3 Nov

Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change

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.�

Cities

17 Mar

Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?

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 promi

Cities

2 Jan

A slum after the storm!

A slum after the storm!

How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the m

Cities

22 Nov

The Hidden Problem: Shadows of Mental Stress Over Urban Adolescents

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 sui

Cities

23 Jun

What Kenya’s biggest slum can teach us about saving cities from floods

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

Disasters

12 Jan