Enhancing Community Flood Resilience in Lusaka's Unplanned Settlements: A Case Study of Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives
This article explores how different stakeholders in Lusaka define flood resilience, in terms of a desirable state to be achieved, and how community flood resilience in Kanyama and George could be enhanced according to different stakeholders.
IPCC FAQs - Cities, Settlements & Key Infrastructure
Why and how are cities, settlements, and different types of infrastructure especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change? Learn about this and other frequently asked questions from Chapter 6 of the 6th Assessment Report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group 2: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.
Community Commons as Socially Just and Adaptive Spaces
Understand how 'community commons' can be potential adaptive spaces in urban poor settlements of the Global South through this ArcGIS StoryMap.
A Practical Guide to Climate-resilient Buildings and Communities
This guide demonstrates how buildings and community spaces can be built to increase resilience to climate change, especially in developing countries where structures are largely self-built.
FRACTAL Learning - Adaptation Inspiration Theme Module 1-6 Summary
This is a summary article signposting the FRACTAL Learning modules 1-6 on inspirational adaptation cases in Africa.
Climate Change in Informal Settlements
This article summarizes ways in which climate change adaptation and mitigation can be achieved in informal settlements.
IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C highlights challenge to achieve climate stability and end poverty
This CDKN blog describes why we must heed the IPCC's 1.5°C Special Report and prevent further climate change that will harm the most vulnerable people.
Advancing resilience in cities, towns and villages through knowledge
This blog discusses a new UNFCCC report (February, 2018) that shares key findings on climate change adaptation in human settlements.
FRACTAL learning - Adaptation Inspiration Theme Module 2
This module describes an Inspirational case on: Public, Private, People Partnerships for Climate Compatible Development, Maputo, Mozambique.
Insight: Out of Mind
Tucked away behind one of Bangalore’s most luxurious apartment complexes lies an informal settlement of waste pickers. This short documentary focuses on Remnik, an inhabitant of this settlement.
Life in Hebbal Settlement, Bangalore, India
The ASSAR urban research team at IIHS created a video from drawings at sites in the informal settlement of Hebbal where many interstate migrant waste pickers from West Bengal live.
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
UN-Habitat is the United Nations programme working towards a better urban future.
Flooding in Graveyard pond
Shacks in the informal settlement of Graveyard Pond located in a stormwater detention pond (photo by Laura Drivdal 30.03.2011)
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Flooding in Egoli
Children playing in still-standing water, illustrating how the water stays in the paths of the settlement after only one night of rainfall (photo by Laura Drivdal 1.9.2010...
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