What Farmers Really Need – Water
By Chandhi Singh, Indian Institute for Human Settlements Gowramma is a slightly intimidating, enterprising woman, and a panchayat member in a village in the…
MetroLab Network
MetroLab Network is a recently-launched network of more than 20 city-university partnerships focused on “smart cities”. The Network was launched as part of the…
UN-Habitat Report on land tenure issues among Yazidis in Iraq
In November, UN-Habitat published a report focusing on Housing, Land and Property issues in the Yazidi community’s area in Iraq. The findings of the…
New Urbanization Guidelines For China’s Cities
A new set of guidelines titled “Green and Smart Urban Development Guidelines” have been published through a collaborative effort by the China Development Bank Capital, the biggest source…
Finnish city Mäntsälä using data centres to heat its hot water
Data centres owned by Yandex in Mäntsälä, Southern Finland are being used to heat the city’s water supply. The initiative started functioning after the…
SSRN: New Environment, Science & Policy eJournal (Hebrew Research Network)
SSRN announces a new Hebrew Research Network (HRN) Subject Matter eJournal – Environment, Science & Policy eJournal. ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE & POLICY eJOURNAL Subscribe…
A new report from Brookings: Foresight Africa 2016
A preview of Foresight Africa: Top priorities for the continent in 2016, in which the Africa Growth Initiative and its colleagues discuss six overarching…
MOOC on Urban Infrastructures | Planetizen
IGLUS is launching a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) about the Management of Urban Infrastructures on February 16, 2016.
China vows to make its crowded, chaotic cities safer and better
“China’s rapid urbanisation has created many social and economic problems, and especially environmental problems – Beijing is like a hell on earth today,” said…
C40 2015 Cities Awards
The 2015 C40 Cities Awards took place during the COP21 meeting in Paris. The awards specifically aim to share highly replicable ‘best practices’ across…