A just transition
By Naji Makarem 02 February 2023 News Category: Thought Leadership A just transition is perhaps the most important fuzzy concept we must...
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- Nov 21, 2022
- 6 min
Local Action Towards Climate Resilience in Urban Areas
An additional 2.5 billion people will be a part of our world by 2050, mostly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) across Africa...
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
Mobile Big Data for Cities: Urban Climate Resilience Strategies for Low & Middle- Income Countries
Cities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, including rising sea...
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
Early Warning Systems in the Philippines: Building resilience through mobile & digital technologies
The Philippines consistently ranks as one of the countries most affected by natural hazards in the world. Typhoons, storms, floods,...
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- Oct 25, 2022
- 2 min
How start-ups can help bridge the gap in public service provision in developing countries
How start-ups can help bridge the gap in public service provision in developing countries
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- Oct 24, 2022
- 4 min
Zero-waste settlements: A vision of circular humanitarian settings
A child running barefoot in a refugee camp with a big smile on his or her face is heart warming; if there’s garbage around it’s a shame...
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- Jan 12, 2022
- 2 min
The UrbanEmerge team has grown!
Throughout 2021 UrbanEmerge continued to learn and evolve. We had the privilege to engage with various new clients and to further...
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- Jun 26, 2021
- 4 min
Circular economy innovation challenge for students at Bristol and Zhejiang Universities
By Naji Makarem & Andreas Beavor At UrbanEmerge we’ve recently been exploring viable circular economy solutions for a range of clients....
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- Jul 17, 2020
- 2 min
Green recovery after Covid prioritised by firms.
Author: Froeydis Gording (BD & PM Lead at UrbanEmerge) Co-authors/reviewer: Andreas Beavor (UrbanEmerge Partner) At UrbanEmerge, we were...
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- Jul 4, 2019
- 1 min
UrbanEmerge Recruitment: Business Development & PM Lead
Deadline: CLOSED (Position Filled July 2020) Congratulations to Froeydis Gording for becoming our first recruit and Business Development...
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- Dec 21, 2018
- 4 min
Resettlement & Complementary Pathways
Authors: Joanne Van-Selm and Naji Makarem (on behalf of our team) UrbanEmerge was commissioned by the Durable Solutions Platform (DSP) to...
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- Sep 4, 2018
- 4 min
Why the Smartest City Solutions Put People and Environment First
There is a lot of hype around the term ‘smart city’ and its definition can be ambiguous. At UrbanEmerge, we refer to smart cities as...
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- Aug 3, 2018
- 4 min
Why it’s Important to Make Cities Accessible for Everyone
Working with World Enabled, UrbanEmerge has recently led a project for the INGO Humanity & Inclusion (formerly Handicap International)....
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- Jul 11, 2018
- 3 min
Ethiopia’s Industrial Parks could Employ Hundreds of Thousands of Young Women
While working in Ethiopia recently I witnessed first-hand the phenomenal transformation the county is bringing about through attracting...
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- Jul 1, 2018
- 4 min
Green Urbanism in Asia: How Hangzhou in China is making Impressive Progress
In their great book ‘Green Urbanism in Asia’, Peter Newman and Anne Matan suggest that green urbanism is the recognition that cities make...
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- Jun 14, 2018
- 2 min
UK off-site manufacturing & modular construction
UrbanEmerge has recently completed a scoping review of modern construction methods in the UK. Here’s what we found: The UK is facing a...
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- Nov 27, 2017
- 5 min
Friendships matter for urban economies
The culture and social structure of a metropolitan region is as important as it’s physical architecture and infrastructure, if not more...
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- Nov 22, 2017
- 1 min
The rise & fall of urban economies
In our recent co-authored book, Michael Storper, Tom Kemeny, Taner Osman and I investigate the income divergence of two advanced...
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- Nov 20, 2017
- 3 min
Why join UrbanEmerge?
As you know, in the development consulting field today, two worlds come together to deliver most projects:The core team of the consulting...
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