Experts in climate change and development planning have called for the adaptation of a participatory spatial planning approach to help address the negative impact of climate change on coastal communit ...

Child-friendly cities prioritize safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and children's participation in decision-making processes. However, children are consulted only for ideas and ...

Moving away from top-down approaches, contemporary practices embrace more inclusive and participatory models and design processes. Participatory planning, a notion that prioritizes involving the ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Feb 2015), pp. 16-26 (11 pages) In the tropical Andes, uncontrolled urban growth and the loss of agricultural land severely affect periurban ...

There is great potential to take a bottom-up approach to development planning in the drylands that includes the knowledge, input, and support of dryland communities. To date, pastoralists have had ...

a) What is a Participatory Assessment? A Participatory Assessment is a process of building partnerships with refugee women and men of all ages and backgrounds by promoting meaningful participation ...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defined child-friendly cities as those that prioritize children’s access to safe environments, healthcare, education, green spaces, and the ...