
Multiple professors, researchers and students work on SDG 11 at the Graduate Institute. Their work includes academic and policy-oriented publications, events and research projects. We also offer Executive Master degrees in Environmental Governance, and Development Policies and Practices, and an academic Master degree in Development Studies.


Strange Natures: conservation in the era of synthetic biology

Sustaining Peace in Cities

Why the ICRC should think twice about its work on urban violence

International Law and Consumption-Driven Environmental Harm

Gangs and Suburbs: What Impact on the French Elections?

Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence (URCV)

The Sustainable City Promoter

International Organisations and Cities: An Accelerating relationship Reshaping Both?

Environmental governance and justice through an ethnographic lens

We Are the Nobodies: Youth, violence and drug dealing at the urban margins

Peasant Mobilization, Peasant Responses to Climate Change
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View moreGoal 11 aims to improve urban planning and management which is needed to make the world’s urban spaces more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. The UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform stresses that “rapid urbanization has brought enormous challenges, including growing numbers of slum dwellers, increased air pollution, inadequate basic services and infrastructure, and unplanned urban sprawl, which also make cities more vulnerable to disasters”. Read more about Goal 11.