
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.


‘Replacing GDP by 2030’

The Impact of COVID-19 on Cities

How Can Energy-Pricing Reforms Be Socially Sustainable?

Lead Development in Times of Crisis!

Sustaining Peace in Cities

Gangs Project Public Launch

Gangs, Gangsters, and Ganglands: Towards a Global Comparative Ethnography

A green recovery plan for Israel

Urban Safety and Peacebuilding: New Perspectives on Sustaining Peace in the City

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

Geneva Energy Conversations – Putting the genie back: Two degrees will be harder than we think
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Goal 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.