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Urban Opportunities: Perspectives on Climate Change, Resilience, and Inclusion

Urban Opportunities: Perspectives on Climate Change, Resilience, and Inclusion

Urban Sustainability Laboratory

By Clifford Amoako, Signe Jung Sørensen, Eric Chu & 1 more

Environment Climate Urban Studies Africa India

Urban Opportunities: Perspectives on Climate Change, Resilience, and Inclusion

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This publication marks the 5th year of the Urban Poverty Paper Competition for advanced graduate students sponsored by the Wilson Center's Urban Sustainability Laboratory, USAID, International Housing Coalition, the World Bank, and Cities Alliance. The volume includes original, solutions-oriented research by winning authors to assess existing urban policy and practice.

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Clifford Amoako

PhD candidate, Social and Political Sciences Graduate Research Program, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Australia

Signe Jung Sørensen

MPA, International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellow, Madagascar

Eric Chu

PhD candidate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Allison Garland

Allison Garland

Project Director, Urban Sustainability Laboratory

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Blair A. Ruble

Blair A. Ruble

Distinguished Fellow;
Former Wilson Center Vice President for Programs (2014-2017); Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Program/Urban Sustainability Laboratory (1992-2017); Director of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (1989-2012) and Director of the Program on Global Sustainability and Resilience (2012-2014)

Urban Sustainability Laboratory

Since 1991, the Urban Sustainability Laboratory has advanced solutions to urban challenges—such as poverty, exclusion, insecurity, and environmental degradation—by promoting evidence-based research to support sustainable, equitable and peaceful cities. Read more

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