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        Diane Archer

        Senior Research Fellow

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      Diane Archer is a Senior Research Fellow with SEI.  Diane joined SEI Asia in September 2018 as Urban Research Fellow, working on the City Health and Wellbeing Initiative. She also works on urban climate resilience and other initiatives seeking to achieve more equitable and sustainable cities.

      Diane brings expertise on urban poverty and urban community-led development, with an emphasis on achieving inclusive urban governance in cities of Asia and Africa. She has also previously worked on responses to urban humanitarian crises as well as adaptation to climate change in cities.

      Before joining SEI, Diane worked at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London and the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) in Thailand. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge on social capital in participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok, an MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration, and an MA in Land Economy.

      Publications by Diane Archer

      • Regulating air quality in Thailand – a review of policies
      • Air quality in Thailand: Understanding the regulatory context
      • Social-ecological transformation in cities in Asia
      • Manufacturing pollution in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: implications for the environment, health and future work
      • Governing sustainability in secondary cities of the Global South
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      Perspectives by Diane Archer

      • Understanding the gendered impacts of air pollution in the world of work
      • Is it time for Asian cities to declare a climate emergency?
      • 2019 Asia-Pacific Disaster Report shows a region at risk and running out of time
      • Understanding health and well-being in urban Thailand: the case of Udon Thani

      Featured stories with Diane Archer

      • Citizen Science Month
      • COVID-19
      • People make a city
      • Measuring health and wellbeing in rapidly-growing cities
      • Udon Thani – a model for sustainable cities in a growing Asia-Pacific

      Projects and tools with Diane Archer

      • Exploring pathways towards more sustainable mobility in Bogota
      • Explorando caminos hacia una movilidad más sostenible en Bogotá
      • Towards inclusive urban waste systems: integrating informal waste workers for a circular economy
      • Sustainable manufacturing and environmental pollution programme
      • SEI Initiative on City Health and Well-being
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