
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.


SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

How to bridge the gaps between science, policy, and practice

Environmental governance and justice through an ethnographic lens

Gang Governance, from the Local to the Global

Action Days for the SDGs – Environment and the Future of Partnerships

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

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

Accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals

Security and the Pandemic: Global Perspectives | Launch Event

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

Consumer Myopia, Imperfect Competition and the Energy Efficiency Gap: Evidence from the UK Refrigerator Market
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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.