
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.


Environmental governance and justice through an ethnographic lens

Battery supply chains from South America to Europe and beyond: Issues of governance, sustainability and justice

The power of location for environmental monitoring and decision making

Geneva Energy Conversations: Fossil Fuels in Sustainable Energy Systems

COVID-19 and planetary urbanisation

Villes sous tension ?

Sustaining Peace in Cities

New faculty member at CIES: Prof. Bill Adams, Claudio Segré Chair of Conservation and Development

Investigating the Trade-Offs and Synergies in Integrating Biodiversity Goals across the UN Systems

Garbage Is Good to Think With: The Interplay of Civic Activism and Judicial Intervention in Shaping Bangalore’s Solid Waste Management Policies

Security and the Pandemic: Global Perspectives | Launch Event
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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.