Articles
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UN-Habitat and Youth
On the 8th of October 2013, UN-HABITAT in collaboration with Habitat Norway will host the seminar: “Youth and Urban Governance, including Land and ICT” at The House of Literature in Oslo. UN-HABITAT will also launch a report on the topic the same day. Already several months in advance, we have the honor of publishing an article […]
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Where A Billion People Still Live Without Electricity
According to a new report from the World Bank, 1.6 billion people gained access to electricity between 1990 and 2000, 70 percent of them in urban areas. But, as of 2010, 1.2 billion people were still living without it – 173 million of them in urban areas. In the West, sustainability often means a better […]
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Habitat Norway launches new logo
We are happy to launch our new logo! The logo comes with English and Norwegian text, and with black and white letters and illustration. The logo also comes in a simplified set. Design by Synne Bergby.
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Can cities rely entirely on solar power in the future?
It might be possible, as Morocco just launched the world’s largest solar power project. Middle East Online announced (2013-05-11) the breaking news. The project is expected to cover 3,000 hectares and have a generation capacity of 500 megawatts, enough to met the electricity needs of the city Ouarzazate’s 1.5 million residents. “RABAT – Morocco on […]
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Oslo: A City That Turns Garbage Into Energy Copes With a Shortage
OSLO — A city that imports garbage. Some comes from England, some from Ireland. Some is from neighboring Sweden. It even has designs on the American market. “I’d like to take some from the United States,” said Pal Mikkelsen, in his office at a huge plant on the edge of town that turns garbage into […]
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Byer og klima – den fortrengte utfordringen
Erik Berg, former Senior Adviser in the UN section, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, writes in this month’s issue of Bistandsaktuelt, publication by The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), about cities and the climate, and argues that cities are neglected in the discourse on how to both understand and tackle climate change. Byer og klima […]
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Presentation: Lecture with Prof David Sanderson, May 2013
Wednesday 8 May professor David Sanderson, director of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice in the department of architecture, Oxford Brookes University, gave a lecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, hosted by Habitat Norway. THE ARCHITECT’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING URBAN VULNERABILITY AND DISASTER RESPONSE Is the profession trained to play a role […]
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Vanntilgang i urbane områder
Av Henrik Lindblom. Mennesket kan overleve relativt lenge uten mat, men kun få dager uten vann. Det er en større andel mennesker som dør på grunn av mangel på rent vann enn det er mennesker som dør av AIDS, malaria og meslinger til sammen. Ifølge World Water Council mangler mer enn 1,1 milliarder mennesker tilgang […]
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Krigene urbaniseres
Av Ivar Winther Byer utgjør ca. 2,8% av jordens overflate, og verdens befolkning flytter inn i byene. Rundt forrige århundreskifte levde om lag 180 millioner i byer. 1950 fantes det 2,3 milliarder, hvorav 500 millioner bodde i byer. I 2007 var det for første gang et flertall av byboere i verden. Av 6,7 milliarder mennesker, […]
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Byens matsikkerhet – en global utfordring
Av Odd Iglebæk (tidl styremedlem i Habitat Norge) Om femti år er det trolig over ni milliarder mennesker på jorda. Hvordan skal alle sikres tilstrekkelig med mat? I dag har verden nærmere sju milliarder innbyggere, og mindre enn halvparten bor på landet. Om femti år er vi sannsynligvis i overkant av ni milliarder innbyggere. Anslagsvis […]