This is one of three insights describing where a ‘living heritage’ approach has been applied, writes IIED senior associate David Satterthwaite. The following describes the response to the devastating ...

In low- and middle-income countries looking to harness their mineral wealth for industrial development, Indonesia's nickel ...

Another daily source of anger on Karachi’s roads is unsafe and poorly maintained infrastructure. Accidents on damaged roads, ...

This event presents the online celebration of a special issue of Environment & Urbanization exploring socio-technical ...

This declaration was written by the Network of Agrobiodiversity Zones and Biocultural Heritage Territories of Peru to call ...

David Satterthwaite examines global trends in the size, growth and distribution of the world’s urban population. He also considers climate change and COVID-19. The transition to a predominantly urban ...

In Lima’s informal settlements, ollas comunes – community-led soup kitchens – are reviving strong traditions of self-organised crisis response and resilience among the urban poor. Latin America is a ...

Western economics is not only destroying the environment. It is also destroying Indigenous peoples’ holistic development models that ensure balance with nature, and provide alternative paradigms for ...

A catalogue of community development laws related to the mining sector has been created featuring legislative arrangements from 54 countries. All legislation can be seen in an interactive map, while ...

Twenty years ago Costa Rica began to pioneer schemes that paid land owners to protect forests in return for the benefits they provide, such as conserving wild species, regulating river flows and ...

The world’s biggest capital cities have experienced a 52% increase in the number of days reaching 35°C over the past three decades, according to new analysis by IIED. It shows an overall rise in the ...

A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: copyright AFREWATCH) As a critical component ...