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The innovative approach highlights vulnerability to deforestation, fire and drought, as well as poverty. The results can help formulate public policies for sustainable development.

In hopes of preparing the city for these changes, Drexel University, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and CCRUN convened more than 100 experts, community members and stakeholders to produce a research agenda that, if pursued, could help to fortify Philadelphia, and its most vulnerable populations, against the extreme effects of climate change.

Lusaka - Zambia: Government will prioritise economic and environmental development agenda in order to meet the third criteria for a possible graduation from

Held as part of the Gerhart Center Webinar Series, this panel discussion focuses on the state of the science, and evidence of the existential risk posed by climate change and the “transformation” i...

As one of the world’s foremost international humanitarian organizations, the United Nations has pledged to provide food and medicines to cash-strapped Sri Lanka --a country suffering from a major fi

Bhutan is on track to graduate from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group by June 2023, according to senior government officials. Officials from the Ministry of Finance said that despite the pandemic, the government decided that Bhutan will graduate by June 2023.

India has been a low-middle-income country for 13 years, Malaysia for 27 years and Brazil for 33 years.

In response to increased climate disasters — tropical storms, sea-level rise, drought, wildfires, and other events — major climate adaptation projects around the world are producing inequitable land use plans and projects in urban regions, according to Linda Shi, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning.

CRP Assistant Professor Linda Shi discusses her timely research on populations vulnerable to climate change injustices and the planning discipline's critical contributions to the global discussion on adaptation and the future of cities.