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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.
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The Emerging World: alternatives that can change everything
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‘Replacing GDP by 2030’
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Sustaining Peace in the City
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Environmental Governance & Policy-Making
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Villes sous tension ?
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Gangs and Suburbs: What Impact on the French Elections?
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Environmental governance and justice through an ethnographic lens
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Consumer Myopia, Imperfect Competition and the Energy Efficiency Gap: Evidence from the UK Refrigerator Market
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How Not to Waste a Garbage Crisis: Food Consumption, Solid Waste Management and Civic Activism in Bangalore/Bengaluru, India
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WHS 2017 : Healthy and Resilient Cities
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Strange Natures: conservation in the era of synthetic biology
Discover more SDGs
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.