
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.


Gangs and Suburbs: What Impact on the French Elections?

Gangs Project Public Launch

COVID-19 and planetary urbanisation

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

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

Environmental governance and justice through an ethnographic lens

Environmental Governance & Policy-Making

The Emerging World: alternatives that can change everything

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

SINERGIA: Innovation, Diffusion and Green Growth

So fresh and so clean: urban community engagement to improve the sustainability of drainage infrastructure
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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.