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, …
The federal government approved Rs480 million for construction of Chakdara-Kalam Road, said Adviser to Prime Minister Eng Amir Muqam here on Monday. Talking to different delegations of various areas of Swat, he said that work on the project would be started from May 1 and it would be completed within …
The ministry of urban development has announced that it plans to share revised draft guidelines for Urban and Regional Development Plans Formulation and Implementation with all states for further consultation in next few weeks. “The focus needs to be not just on housing, but planned urbanisation that is inclusive of …
Only 6.4 per cent and eight per cent of Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste households are using clean fuel in rural parts. A report by the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, shows that the per capita emission of carbon dioxide by urban households is a shocking 16 times …
China has announced its first pilot projects to treat metal pollution in soil and prevent farmland from further contamination, but critics say the government's overall efforts are underfunded and inefficient. The ministry of finance will subsidise soil pollution prevention and treatment in three cities in the central province of Hunan, …
Total land acquisition costs for the Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track are likely to exceed Rs 2 billion by the time the much-touted highway is completed. The government has acquired nearly 90 percent of the land required for the project, and has paid more than Rs 1 billion to landowners in Makwanpur …
China has announced its first pilot projects to treat metal pollution in soil and prevent farmland from further contamination, but critics say the government's overall efforts are underfunded and inefficient. The Ministry of Finance will subsidize soil pollution prevention and treatment in three cities in the central province of Hunan, …
Work on a building on the IIT-Madras campus is going on despite the National Green Tribunal order to stop all construction work in the green zone. Based on a petition filed by an environmentalist stating that IIT was felling trees and constructing buildings without approvals, NGT on March 4ordered the …
While popular opinion states that Western Ghats are a source of capturing rainfall and water resources, a series of studies conducted by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has shown that rainfall in some parts of the Ghat regions has reduced, adverse affecting sources of water supply water to cities." …
Under sharp criticism for ignoring planting of trees to compensate for the chopped ones for road widening, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) gave Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) three options for four-laning between Mankapur Square and Mental Hospital Square on Koradi Road. Looking into the poor track record of …
Legal hurdles coming in the way of the under-construction 16-lane expressway from the Delhi-Gurgaon border to Sector 55-56 seems to have been resolved with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) giving its approval to resume the construction work. The residents of the National Media Centre had approached NGT asking it to …
Locals of Basaha-7, remote belt of the district have started to construct 1.5-kilometre road section from Basaha to Khotangre Tole at the VDC in their own initiation by raising funds at the local level. The road section will be constructed through voluntary labour and public donation, said local Purna Bahadur …
Environmental activist Sandip Bhavar has sent a legal notice to Nashik municipal commissioner Sanjay Khandare, accusing that the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC)'s Tree Committee (TC) was "improperly" formed. Bhavar - whose name was among those suggested for the committee - has warned of civil and contempt proceedings if the municipal …
Challenges such as extreme weather, rising seas and worsening scarcity of drinking water are forcing many Asian governments to confront the changes being wrought by a warming planet even as some point to rich Western nations as major culprits. Millions of people in the region have already been displaced by …
Large-scale deforestation, reckless cutting of hills, illegal mining, poor management of waste, falling groundwater tables, preservation and quality of forests, biodiversity loss and land/soil degradation are causes of concern for Himachal residents. Rampant urbanisation is adding to environment concerns. Setting up of cement plants and execution of hydel projects combined …
New Delhi: Environmentalists have been warning about growing encroachments on the Yamuna floodplains being a recipe for disaster. Now, the latest UN panel report on climate change echoes these fears, putting Delhi among three of world’s mega cities that are at high risk of floods. The other two cities facing …
National green tribunal (NGT) has directed the Goa coastal zone management authority (GCZMA) and public works department (PWD) to produce the requisite records with maps pertaining to the approval granted to the Sinquetim-Benaulim bridge across River Sal. The controversial bridge has been almost completed, but due to opposition and lack …
Street children and kids living in slums in four Asian cities, including Dhaka, are among those most vulnerable to everyday hazards, disasters and climate change amid rapid urbanisation in Asian countries, said a study of Plan International yesterday. The study “Understanding Children's Risk and Agency in Urban Areas and Their …
This short literature review provides initial reflections on conditions shaping climate policy at the city level in developing countries. The key message is that a city needs the following in order to effectively advance climate compatible development.
This document considers how the nature of urban space and of urban populations influences disasters in cities; it discusses the question of urban disasters in comparison with rural disasters and factors that can decrease the risk and potential impact of disasters in urban areas. This paper also outlines how the …
This report presents the inclusive framework for articulating city resilience underpinning the City Resilience Index. It argues that city’s resilience depends on its physical assets as well as its policies, social capital and institutions. This report develops the indicators and variables that will comprise the City Resilience Index. In the …
