Recent extreme events in Australia, with torrential rain and floods following devastating bushfires, have focused the World Urban Forum’s attention on the urgency of climate action.
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An expert in urban leadership reports from the UN General Assembly’s high-level conference.
Informal settlements are often undocumented or hidden on official maps, but they house about a billion people worldwide. Their existence demands a more sophisticated approach to urban development.
Two years of marathon negotiations have finally yielded agreement in last-minute meetings in New York on the New Urban Agenda to be adopted at the Habitat III summit in Quito in October.
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Professor of Urban & Regional Planning; Chair of the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Research Network (CCARRN), University of Canberra
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Assistant Director (International) - Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
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Professor of Global Urban Politics and Director, Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct professor, School of Media and Communications, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Research Fellow in Urban Resilience and Innovation, The University of Melbourne
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Monash University
