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To Fix City Slums, Don't Just Knock Them Down: Involve Residents in Upgrading Efforts

  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • poverty
  • public participation
View of one of the many informal settlements the city of Surabaya, Indonesia has upgraded since the 1960s with input and participation from residents. Photo by Peter Edelman.
  • Cities
  • Towards a More Equal City
  • housing
  • poverty
  • public participation
  • development
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information
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People-Oriented Cities: Mixed-Use Development Creates Social and Economic Benefits

  • public transit
  • low carbon development
  • transportation
Mixed-use development combined with pedestrianization on Mexico City’s Calle Madero promotes sustainable, prosperous communities. Photo Credit: Julius Reque/Flickr.
  • public transit
  • low carbon development
  • transportation

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

Improving Freedom of Information in Uganda

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation

New Jakarta Declaration Aims to Strengthen Rights to Environmental Information in Asia

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information
  • human rights
  • pollution
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information
  • human rights
  • pollution
  • public participation
Insights

RELEASE: 14 Latin American and Caribbean Countries Adopt an Ambitious Plan of Action to Improve Access Rights in the Region

  • environmental justice
  • freedom of information
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • freedom of information
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Research

Moving the Fulcrum