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, …
This new report reviews linkages between urbanization and climate change. It illustrates the significant contribution of urban areas to climate change & also highlights the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations. Reviews policy responses, practices emerging in urban areas to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as …
Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face equally unprecedented hydrologic changes due to global climate change. Here we use a detailed hydrologic model, demographic projections, and climate …
Isher Ahluwalia-led panel says the govt should invest at least . 32.4 lakh cr in 20 years The government needs to scale up urban development funding by at least 15% per annum in the 12th Plan (2011-17) to meet the challenges of rapid urbanisation in the country, an expert committee …
A high-powered expert committee on urban infrastructure, chaired by Isher Judge Ahluwalia, has recommended bringing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) and the housing and urban poverty alleviation under a single unified command to ensure that sustainable urbanisation was facilitated in the coun try without leaving out the …
The responsibility of municipalities to provide crucial services is being increasingly passed on to the resident welfare associations located in middle and upper middle class areas in cities. Similar tools of intervention are absent in the slums and low-income neighbourhoods and even the local ward committees fail to represent their …
This new report on Indian urban infrastructure and services by the High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) chaired by Isher Judge Ahluwalia set up by the Ministry of Urban Development in May, 2008 documents the nature of the urbanisation challenges facing India. It argues that the challenge of managing urbanisation will …
The Compendium of Environment Statistics 2010 prepared under the broad Framework for Development of Environment Statistics provided by the United Nations Statistics Division and adopted by the Steering Committee on Environment Statistics set up by CSO during 1996. The five parameters of the framework, namely, biodiversity, atmosphere, land/soil, water, and …
In Bangladesh, urban poverty is neglected in research, policy and action on poverty reduction. This paper explores the underlying foundations for this relative neglect, including national identity and image, the political economy of urban poverty, and the structuring of knowledge creation. It argues for more comprehensive policy and programmes for …
This paper explores notions of participation as located in ‘second generation’ or institutional reforms, particularly as articulated by prominent state-sponsored public-private partnerships such as the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) and the Tamilnadu Urban Development Fund (TNUDF). These ‘model’ partnerships provided key programmatic elements that became the basis of national …
Tech hub Bangalore tops the list in a new Morgan Stanley report on how India's booming cities cope with problems from infrastructure to job creation, with Mumbai, India's financial capital, trailing in 21st place. Asia's third-largest economy is home to one-quarter of the world's 20 most densely populated cities but …
The High Court on Friday directed the State government to file objections in connection with the indiscriminate felling of trees in the City. Felling of trees on Suranjan Das Road a few weeks ago. DH file photoHearing a suo motu petition, the Division Bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar …
The Mumbai board of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) has, for the first time, made a budgetary provision of Rs 100 crore solely for redeveloping its colonies. The Mumbai board announced this decision while unveiling its budget on Friday. The board intends to construct 3,458 flats in …
NEW DELHI: Population enumeration, the second phase of Census 2011, which begins simultaneously across the country from February 9, will gather information under various heads such as demography, economic activity, literacy, cultural, housing and household amenities, urbanisation, migration, fertility, language, religion, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. As many as 240 …
Visakhapatnam, Feb. 4: The East Coast Ene-rgy Private Limited Thermal Power management has come forward to compensate the farmers and the fisherfolk whose land was being acquired for developing the super thermal power project in Kakarapalli village in Santabommali mandal in the district. East Coast Energy Private Limited is a …
This Asian Green City Index, commissioned by German firm Siemens is an analysis of the environmental sustainability of 22 major cities in Asia with respect to environmental and climate protection. The Asian Green City Index examines the environmental performance of 22 major Asian cities in eight categories: energy and CO2, …
Do local improvements in infrastructure provision improve city competitiveness? What public finance mechanisms stimulate local infrastructure supply? And how do local efforts compare with national decisions of placing inter-regional trunk infrastructure? This paper examine how the combination of local and national infrastructure supply improve city competitiveness, measured as the city’s …
The 2020 Vision Initiative of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) coordinated a global consultation process whose centerpiece was an international conference called “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health,” held February 10–12, 2011, in New Delhi, India. The conference, facilitated by IFPRI with guidance from the Conference Advisory …
The Task Force on Urban Development was constituted in June 2010 by the Planning Commission, Planning and Development Division, Government of Pakistan, to review existing urban conditions in the country and establish broad principles for formulating a national urban policy. Headed by Mr. Arif Hasan, the Task Force, comprising eminent …
This report by Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), is based on a survey of the lakes dating back to the 9th century AD in Mahadevpura constituency of Bengaluru. The lakes are now faced with the impacts of rapid urbanization and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike …
