In this issue:

• Pilot initiatives in Sorsogon City address climate change;
• One year after conference, Green Building Movement struggles to take root in Africa
• UN-Habitat and UNEP join forces on Ecosystem-based adaptati...

Land is a scare resource involving a wide range of rights and responsibilities. When poorly managed, it can become contentious often leading to disputes, conflict, degradation and other problems, all of them drivers of slum development and poverty...

The 21st session of the annual World Water Week in Stockholm under the theme “Responding to Global Changes: Water in an Urbanizing World” provides a good opportunity to build on the outcome of this year’s World Water Day celebrations coordinated b...

In this issue:

• Innovative School Designs Increase Climate Resilience in Mozambique
• Mapping the Risks to a Batik Industry City in Indonesia
• First Sub-Regional Workshop of CCCI Held in Fiji

Other Issues:

Climate induced risks such as rising sea levels, tropical cyclones, heavy precipitation events and extreme weather conditions can disrupt the basic fabric and functioning of cities with widespread reverberations for the physical infrastructure, ec...

The challenges facing cities with regards to the impacts of growing violence and insecurity are numerous and daunting. The need to address crime prevention in cities is apparent.

This brochure highlights the Safer Cities approach run by UN-...

Cities consume the majority of world’s energy and are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the major proportion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollution. At the same time, it is cities, and in particular the urban poor, in the dev...

UN-HABITAT's Habitat Partner University Initiative systematizes the relationship between UN-HABITAT and universities, supporting collaborations towards sustainable urban development and emphasizing comparative advantages of all partners in the fie...