
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.


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

Peasant Mobilization, Peasant Responses to Climate Change

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

Executive Master in Development Policies and Practices (DPP)

Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence (URCV)

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

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

The Sustainable City Promoter

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

From Science to Practice: Strengthening Research Uptake to Achieve the SDGs

Sustainable Food Consumption, Urban Waste Management and Civic Activism
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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.