
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.


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

Action Days for the SDGs – SDGs and Impact Investing

COVID-19 and planetary urbanisation

Cities, Conflict, and Development

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

The power of location for environmental monitoring and decision making

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

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

Villes sous tension ?

REPLACING GDP BY 2030: Towards a common language for the well-being and sustainability community

Strange Natures: conservation in the era of synthetic biology
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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.