Fadi Hamdan
Athens
Fadi has more than 25 years of international experience in analysing the interaction between development, urbanism, disaster risk, climate change, conflict, and state fragility. Fadi cooperates with various companies, cities, and countries to protect people, assets, and the environment. He has also given more than one hundred workshops to sectorial and multi-sectorial delegates on the above topics. He currently works in both Europe and the MENA region with clients including EU, IAEA, UNDP, UNHABITAT, UNDRR, WB, ESCWA, UNICEF, Save the Children, World Vision, amongst others. He obtained his Ph.D. from Imperial College, London (UK) in 1993.
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Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing for Inclusive Cities
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Eco-Urbanism and Urban Resilience Become More Critical Against a Background of a Global War
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Covid has upended all the normal routines in our lives and work. How do you imagine you might be changed by it, both professionally, but also personally as you negotiate a new post-virus “normal”?
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Disaster Recovery? Yet Another Missed Opportunity to Build Back Better, Inclusive, and Sustainable Cities
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Our goal is to empower cities to plan for a positive natural future. What is one specific action that should be taken to achieve this goal?
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Urbanism as a Creator of Value—but is it Sustainable?
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Ecosystems for everyone: Who should have access to the myriad benefits of ecosystem services and urban nature? Everyone. Does everyone? No. How will we achieve this moral imperative?
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Enforcing Good Corporate Governance in Disaster Risk Management is a Must
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What are the unifying elements of an urban ecology of the Global South and geographic south? Are they different than those in the north?
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We Cannot Reduce Urban Inequality Unless We Fix Inequality in Exposure to Disaster Risk
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Risk: How Can We Put the UN, Governments, and the Public on the Same Page?
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10 scientists and 10 practitioners walk into a bar…what would they talk about? How can research and knowledge generation be co-created to better support practitioners and evidence-based decision making?