Event Summary · Book presentation at the Building a Resilient Future Conference
On September 22, 2019, the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) joined a pool of 450 changemakers at the Building a Resilient Future day-long event organized by the Global Resilience Partnership. The day after the event a headline message was put forward to the UN...
Event Summary · Book Launch: Facing Risk: New Urban Resilience Practices in Latin America
On September 12th, 2019, the Observatory on Latin America (OLA) at The New School presented its newly published book Facing Risk: New Urban Resilience Practices in Latin America. The publication is the result of a collaboration agreement between the OLA and the Latin...
New Book | Facing Risk: New Urban Resilience Practices in Latin America
Facing Risk provides answers to some dilemmas faced by the sustainable development agenda established by the international community. While there is an evident broad consensus, attention, and sense of urgency about what ought to be done, there is not enough clarity,...
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The Just City in Africa · Conference
The New School 63 West 5th Avenue, New York, NYThe objective of the Conference is to take stock of existing inequalities and obstacles to social justice in urban Africa and to identify a set of actionable policies and proposals which African governments at the national and urban level might undertake in this direction