Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Regional and Technical Cooperation DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Ambo Urban Profile
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Regional and Technical Cooperation DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Mbarara Municipality Urban Profile
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Intermediary Cities and Climate Change An Opportunity for Sustainable Development
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264612718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The consequences of climate change in developing countries are worsening fast: many ecosystems will shortly reach points of irreversible damage, and socio-economic costs will continue to rise. To alleviate the future impacts on populations and economies, policy makers are looking for the spaces where they can make the greatest difference. This report argues that intermediary cities in developing countries are such spaces.
Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
Author: Walter Leal FilhoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319495208
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
This collection showcases experiences from research and field projects in climate change adaptation on the African continent. It includes a set of papers presented at a symposium held in Addis Abeba in February 2016, which brought together international experts to discuss “fostering African resilience and capacity to adapt.” The papers introduce a wide range of methodological approaches and practical case studies to show how climate change adaptation can be implemented in regions and countries across the continent. Responding to the need for more cross-sectoral interaction among the various stakeholders working in the field of climate change adaptation, the book fosters the exchange of information on best practices across the African continent.
Addis Ababa Urban Profile
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Regional and Technical Cooperation DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Ethiopia Urban Profile
Author: United Nations Human Settlements ProgrammePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Dire Dawa Urban Profile
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Regional and Technical Cooperation DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Disposable Cities
Author: Garth Andrew MyersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135194360X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Based on in-depth fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides a critical analysis of the United Nations Sustainable Cities Program in Africa (SCP). Focusing on the SCP's policies for solid waste management, which was identified as the top priority problem by the SCP, the book examines the success of these pilot schemes and the SCP's record in building new relationships between people and government. It argues that the SCP has operated in a political vacuum, without recognition of the long and problematic histories and cultural politics of urban environmental governance in Eastern and Southern Africa. This book brings these cultural and political histories to the fore in its examination of the contemporary dynamics. In doing so, it not only provides an insightful analysis of the policies and outcomes for the SCP, but also puts forward a historically grounded critique of neoliberalism, good governance and sustainable development discourses.
Physical Profile of Cities in the ESCAP Region
Author: Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity
Author: Ariella Van LuynPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429860277
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Drawing on Australian and comparative case studies, this volume reconceptualises non-metropolitan creative economies through the ‘qualities of place’. This book examines the agricultural and gastronomic cultures surrounding ‘native’ foods, coastal sculpture festivals, universities and regional communities, wine in regional Australia and Canada, the creative systems of the Hunter Valley, musicians in ‘outback’ settings, Fab Labs as alternatives to clusters, cinema and the cultivation of ‘authentic’ landscapes, and tensions between the ‘representational’ and ‘non-representational’ in the cultural economies of the Blue Mountains. What emerges is a picture of rural and regional places as more than the ‘other’ of metropolitan creative cities. Place itself is shown to embody affordances, unique institutional structures and the invisible threads that ‘hold communities together’. If, in the wake of the publication of Florida’s Rise of the Creative Class, creative industries models tended to emphasize ‘big cities’ and the spatial-cum-cultural imaginaries of the ‘Global North’, recent research and policy discourses – especially, in the Australian context – have paid greater attention to ‘small cities’, rural and remote creativity. This collection will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners in creative industries, urban and regional studies, sociology, geography and cultural planning.