Cities are hubs of global change, and their global influence continues to grow. Cities contribute significantly to global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. At the same time, cities...
Cities are hubs of global change, and their global influence continues to grow. Cities contribute significantly to global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. At the same time, cities...
Credibly and consistently reporting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cities and urban areas enables policy makers and practitioners to contribute to addressing the challenge of climate change by meeting...
The rapid and oft en unplanned expansion of cities is exposing more people and economic assets to the risk of disasters and the effects of climate change. For city governments, increased climate variability...
Solid waste management is the one thing just about every city government provides for its residents. While service levels, environmental impacts and costs vary dramatically, solid waste management is arguably...
This issue includes the following headings: mass rapid transit: a tool for urban expansion; financing: beyond sovereign guarantees; and low-income housing: lessons from Latin America.
The fifth urban research symposium on cities and climate change responding to an urgent agenda, held in Marseille in June 2009, sought to highlight how climate change and urbanization are converging to...
The fifth urban research symposium on cities and climate change responding to an urgent agenda, held in Marseille in June 2009, sought to highlight how climate change and urbanization are converging to...
The Global City Indicators Program (GCIP) is a decentralized, city-led initiative that enables cities to measure, report, and improve their performance and quality of life, facilitate capacity building...
本书的目的是为了促进有关中国对城市固体废弃物管理的发展。本报告介绍了有关这一领域总的背景情况,同时也阐明了世界银行目前对该问题的理解,并提出了详细的建议。
This note states that Latin America's urban population has grown, and its solid waste has increased at an even faster pace. Today the region's urban areas generate about 369,000 tons a day of solid waste...
This paper provides the key elements to develop an integrated approach for measuring and monitoring city performance globally. The paper reviews the role of cities and why indicators are important. Then...
China recently surpassed the U.S. as the world's largest municipal solid waste (MSW) generator. In 2004 the urban areas of China generated about 190,000,000 tons of MSW and by 2030 this amount is projected...
This review presents rural infrastructure indicators (telecom; electricity and heat; water, wastewater, solid waste, and drainage; and roads) for Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR), and Mongolia...
About the staff exchange program. Moving in, moving on. Share pays dividends. The SEP opens doors. Motivation technology; by Rachel Kornberg, Malcolm Beattie, and Harry Love. The water truce; by Gerard...
Composting has always existed on every field and forest floor, and intuitively it makes sense to compost the organic fraction of the municipal solid waste stream. This paper argues that composting should...
This paper reviews the broad trends related to solid waste management in Asia. It focuses on waste management only as it pertains to urban environments. The study analyzes the trends and provides preliminary...