Cities

More than 65% of the world's population are projected to live in urban areas by 2050, with major implications resource use, energy, water and sanitation, and health and well-being. At the same time urbanization can bring benefits, especially efficiency gains. SEI examines these challenges in the round to advance sustainable urbanization.

619 results / 65 of 69 pages

Rising Waters: Working together on Cape Town’s flooding

Other publication

9 October 2013 / About Cities and Disaster risk

Rapid desk-based evidence search and gap analysis on environmental degradation and pollution in developing countries

Other publication

28 July 2013 / About Cities, Pollution, Sanitation and Wellbeing

Transport and Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa (policy brief)

SEI brief

17 May 2013 / About Cities, Mitigation, Pollution and Transport

Social Ecology of Domestic Water Use in Bangalore

Journal article

8 April 2013 / About Cities and Water resources

Co-Motion: Co-design of the built environment for mobility in later life

Project

2013 - 2016 / About Cities

ENDURANCE – EU-wide establishment of enduring national and European support networks for sustainable urban mobility

Project / Builds 25 national networks and an overarching European network making use of the existing EPOMM (European Platform on Mobility Management) structure.

2013 - 2016 / About Cities and Transport

Extending the urban metabolism framework: From Bangalore to Bangkok

Project / This project, evaluates two cities with broadly similar social and infrastructural relationships to water, but very different biophysical settings.

2013 - 2014 / About Cities

Low Carbon Cities – RD1

Project / ding and planning cities to reduce carbon footprint

2013 - 2014 / About Cities, Climate policy, Pollution and Renewables

Transport and environment in sub-Saharan Africa

Other publication

23 October 2012 / About Cities, Land use, Pollution and Transport