In this report, ESCAP explores the future of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the dynamic shifts in the region’s urban landscape. It highlights the region’s demographic transformations, including population ageing, and the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inequality. The analysis covers urban areas of all sizes, …
Sanjeev Sanyal / June 11, 2009, 0:25 IST India needs to urbanise more quickly and this can be done by making smaller urban centres a magnet for rural migration. The new government has promised to remove all slums from urban India within five years. A worthy goal perhaps, but it …
Paribesh Bachao Andolan (PBA) yesterday urged the government to form a high-powered commission to save rivers from encroachment and pollution and to increase navigability across the country. The demand rose at a PBA sit-in programme in front of Krishi Bank Bhaban in Motijheel. They also formed a human chain as …
Resilience is a dynamic process. City resilience refers to the ability of a city to adapt or adjust to changing situations or recover from economic, social or ecological disturbances. The current high rate of urbanisation in China creates many such disturbances. Urban agriculture plays a role in enhancing the resilience …
Estimation of spatially and temporally disaggregated climate risks is a critical prerequisite for the assessment of effective ad efficient adaptation and mitigation climate change strategies and policies in complex urban areas. This interdisciplinary research reviews current literature and practices, identifies knowledge gaps, and defines future research directions for creating a …
As the first responders to the impacts of climate change, local governments play a crucial role in implementing the actions and strategies that will reduce their communities
As the first responders to the impacts of climate change, local governments play a crucial role in implementing the actions and strategies that will reduce their communities
The present paper evaluates the trade-off between economic development and environmental degradation with respect to different countries. The analysis is based on cross-country data on forest degradation and the level of economic development. It also examines the factors that affect environmental degradation. The study highlights that the rate of deforestation …
Providing basic necessities and ensuring safety and quality of life in a changing climate condition have become complicated management issues in the megacities of India. Cities are already under pressure from the rising population and development activities. Existing urban infrastructure is quite inadequate to face these challenges. Water and power …
Cities in Maharashtra have been publishing Environmental Status Report (ESR) for last 12 years. These ESRs discuss the state of various natural resources and urban services and the environmental issues faced by respective cities. In order that the ESRs emerge as a more comprehensive document and play a better role …
Cities in Maharashtra have been publishing Environmental Status Report (ESR) for last 12 years. This report concludes with strategies on how to strengthen the quality and use of ESRs for action planning and provides guidance on how to prepare ESRs as well as way ahead. Cities in Maharashtra have been …
The European Commission has released this Communication, summarizing a process of reflection on the future of transport in Europe. It refers to recent developments of the European Transport Policy and outstanding issues; looks at the future, identifying trends in transport drivers and the likely challenges they could pose to society; …
Impressive economic gains in Asia and the Pacific have been accompanied by a decline in the region's natural capital and unprecedented levels of air and water pollution. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of people in the region are still not enjoying the benefits of recent economic expansion. Disparities in incomes and …
The projects in the road sector for the present fiscal year would take 10 to 339 years to complete if the current rate of implementation persists, says a study of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS). "A large number of road projects are often taken up on political considerations resulting …
The parliamentary standing committee on the planning ministry yesterday recommended that the government legislate against construction on arable land. It asked the land ministry to draft a law and place it before parliament.
DHAKA Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWSA) has earned a notoriety for claiming the largest share of road digging, and as if that was not enough, for supplying undrinkable water that even stinks in a large swathe of the metropolis. These sending livability index of Dhaka life further down, the …
Effects of climate change on health will affect most populations in the next decades and put the lives and wellbeing of billions of people at increased risk. During this century, earth's average surface temperature rises are likely to exceed the safe threshold of 2
The international Commission on Climate Change and Development is launching its final report on the 14th of May at the UN, with participation of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The work of the Commission has focused on adaptation to climate change, its links with disaster risk reduction and how the strengthening of …
The charter of demands for saving the deteriorating environment by Ecological Society. Disappointed by the lack of proper focus on environmental issues in the manifestos of the political parties, this environmental manifesto is an an outcome of the deliberations held at Paryavaran Parishad held at Pune from 18-19 April 09. …
