
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: Towards a common language for the well-being and sustainability community

Lead Development in Times of Crisis!

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

Villes sous tension ?

International Organisations and Cities: An Accelerating relationship Reshaping Both?

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

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

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

Gangs Project Public Launch

Climate Indicators and Sustainable Development: Demonstrating the Interconnections

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