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, …
There are 20 monorail systems in Asia; Metro networks are in operation in 178 cities around the world CHENNAI: With the State government recently announcing a proposal to construct a crisscrossing network of monorail corridors in the city that would be 300 km in length, Chennai has been put on …
TAMBARAM: Despite legislations in place for more than a decade, there was no visible improvement in the area of solid waste management throughout the country, speakers said at a seminar here on Tuesday. Academicians, experts, government representatives, municipal engineers, students and young researchers came together at a seminar on waste …
This is a comprehensive analysis of actions underway in the world’s megacities to address climate change. It not only underscores what cities have done to date, but also what they can do now and in the future as local leaders, and as a collective, to have a significant global impact. …
This report presents a strategy for scaling adaptation to climate change impacts within urban areas. It approaches the adaptation challenge within the overall context of other pressing risks and development challenges confronting the world’s urban regions. The strategy specifi cally focuses on the requirements for mobilizing large amounts of capital …
This summary provides an overview of the report on Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World. This report examines the interlinkages between climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor, underscoring four key messages: The urban poor are on the front line; …
The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was founded in 2000 to challenge, through research, the apparent omission of almost a billion people from the 2015 poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals. The first decade of the 21st century has illustrated the power of economic growth and human development to …
This is a practical guide on responding to the challenges of climate change adaptation in cities. The principal intended audience being city officials and practitioners in developing countries, who are beginning to consider the issues and who would find this guide useful to provide an introduction and comprehensive overview of …
The guidelines provide the basic knowledge on how to initiate, plan, implement and maintain decentralized wastewater management for sustainable infrastructure development in small urban areas. Special emphasis is given to the improvement of urban water courses; most of them are currently terribly polluted. The main concerns related to deteriorating water …
Modern medical treatment has helped a majority of asthma patients to live a perfectly normal and healthy life, said the head of the department of Chest Medicine, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, on Wednesday. He was speaking at a seminar organised by the department of Chest Medicine in JPMC in collaboration …
The Lahore High Court on Friday sought a report from the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) about cutting of trees from a green belt in Shadbagh Scheme-II area after Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) denied having any role in the matter. PHA counsel Ziaur Rehman informed the court that it was …
As the Planning Commission starts preparing itself to approach the 12th Five-Year Plan, its Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia identifies issues like urbanisation, energy as well as water management and environment-friendly growth as much bigger challenges than at the beginning of the current Plan.
Geneva, 17 MAY: An abysmally low government spending on health ~ at USD 32 per capita ~ characterises the poor state of healthcare in India which is facing a
With more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas and with much of the world still urbanizing, there are concerns that urbanization is a key driver of unsustainable resource demands. Urbanization also appears to contribute to ever-growing levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Meanwhile, in much of …
JAIPUR: To attain balanced growth in the state, the state commission on urbanisation will study all major aspects related to urbanisation and will recommend long-term measures to improve the quality of life of common man. As Rajasthan is urbanising fast, the state was the first to constitute such a panel. …
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday stopped the unauthorised construction of a bridge on the Balu river at Mashkul in Khilkhet by Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk). The DoE also fined the Rajuk-hired construction firm Tk 5.5 lakh for harming the river ecology and ordered to remove within a week 45,500 …
The Department of Environment fined a real estate company for cutting hills at the Khulshi area in the port city on Wednesday, a Chittagong DoE release said. Impulse Properties Limited, a property-developer company of Chittagong, was fined Tk 7 lakh for the offence. The release said that a Chittagong DoE …
Thousands of people planning to construct houses in Murree town have been running from pillar to post to get approval of building plans after Punjab government declared the hilly area as environment sensitive. Getting a building map is no doubt a difficult task in the country but Murree is perhaps …
Several hundred farmers in the Rajshahi city on Monday staged a demonstration and submitted a memorandum to the deputy commissioner, protesting at the land acquisition by the Rajshahi City Corporation for its housing project. They said with this they would have to give up their land property for the seventh …
