BLOG: Looks at connections between 4 urban agendas: human development, disaster risk reduction/preparedness, climate change adaptation & climate change mitigation – and how more coherence can be achieved across them as they support eachother
https://t.co/b3V2Wt5Pkg
https://t.co/AdP8Jbp3xQ
The Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia follows an incremental and step-by-step housing approach, starting with a 34 square meter/two-room house, which can later be extended to double
size.
The Federation members are involved in every step of the hous…https://t.co/PczG0tedC7
The World Bank discovered poverty in 1990. Spent 2 decades defending absurd $/day line & ignoring multi-dimensional poverty. Now work on this but using definitions for watsan set far too low. Bangladesh with 2.8% of population with drinking water deprivation? Malawi 12.9%?
I NEED EVERY UCU MEMBER AND SUPPORTER TO RT THIS THREAD.
University bosses are rattled. Across the UK they are threatening UCU members with unfair and immoral pay deductions if they take part in action short of striking. This thread exposes every single one of them
#ucuRISING
🎉 Today our team presented @UrbanRiskHub’s approach to future visioning for disaster risk reduction. Amazing to celebrate this and other research/work packages’ achievements. Many challenges ahead though.
We learn better when we're involved and better still when we enjoy ourselves! At the #TomorrowsCities conference in #Kathmandu our team from @quitoriskhub created a group activity that uses games to talk about #risk!
Check out this thread, where @quitoriskhub shows the work they've been doing in Quito on #risk governance , characterization and modeling, and on the co-production and #communication of knowledge from an interdisciplinary perspective. 👇
#TomorrowsCities#AllHub
“It’s outrageous that our universities are planning to push through pension cuts on this scale without even bothering to do a full equity impact” https://t.co/Tgv0aOovIN
Happy to see this out! Thank you to everyone who contributed their time and knowledge to this paper. A role for municipal governments in leveraging transformative change f... https://t.co/dECKMW2fbc
My first PhD Research Briefing Note is out - A journey to achieving integration in Flood Risk Management! I loved working with Sian from @visualminutes to create this supporting illustration 🖌️. It can be downloaded here along with my PhD in full 👉: https://t.co/cKeAQP83V3