Announcements /cedar/ en Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet co-author a chapter on “Children’s Rights to Child-friendly Cities” /cedar/2017/02/09/louise-chawla-and-willem-van-vliet-co-author-chapter-%E2%80%9Cchildren%E2%80%99s-rights-child-friendly Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet co-author a chapter on “Children’s Rights to Child-friendly Cities” Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 02/09/2017 - 13:52 news Announcements News chawla van Vliet

Professors Emeriti in CEDaR, Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet, co-authored a chapter on “Children’s Rights to Child-friendly Cities," which was published in the latest edition of the Handbook of Children’s Rights (Routledge, 2017). The chapter traces the history of the extension of the idea of a “right to the city” to children, the emergence of a Child Friendly Cities framework to guide urban design and policy for children, and different perspectives that have been applied to assess child-friendliness in cities. It closes with brief case studies of government and civil society programs to support children’s healthy development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Delhi, India; and 鶹ӰԺ, Colorado. 

Professors Emeriti in CEDaR, Louise Chawla and Willem van Vliet, co-authored a chapter on “Children’s Rights to Child-friendly Cities," which was published in the latest edition of the Handbook of Children’s Rights (Routledge, 2017).

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Neda Peiravian is a visiting researcher at the CEDaR Resource Center, before joining the CEDaR she received her Bachelors degree in Sociology from Shiraz University and finished her MSc in urban and regional planning at the University of Birmingham. Her master thesis project was on the subject of resilience and coping with energy vulnerability in everyday life and she has evaluated the extend to which households in deprived communities are facing pressures associated with energy poverty and assessed the coping tactics which developed to tackle the issue. Her research interests include climate change adaptation and mitigation, energy vulnerability, environmental planning and spatial analysis.

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Welcome to Ben Harden, who is working with CEDaR as a GIS technician and associate, collaborating on green infrastructure projects with the city of Denver and other municipalities in Colorado.

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