Tuesday, May 4, 2010

International Institute for Environment and Development

What is the International Institute for Environment and Development? This explanation will tell you about this very interesting institute.

IIED was founded in 1971 by an economist named Barbara Ward. They work on a range of environmental projects and development topics. They get funds from key donor organisations. Some of the things that they research are: Climate change, Governance, Human Settlement, Natural Resources and Sustainable Markets.

What have they have been doing on these topics: Climate change: Inspired lots of countries to start environmental projects, the climate change project, MA programme in Drylands policy and climate change adaption. Governance: a piece on local organisations and report backs novel approach to improving forest governance. Human Settlement: Innovative design could transform urban planning in developing countries and New ‘population and dynamics’ book. Natural resources: Forestry, biomass and sustainability 2010 conference, Conservation initiative on human rights and Ghana’s hidden forestry revealed in first study of it’s kind.

This is all this Institute researches and it has daily updates so if you would like to find out more then search it on google.

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