A waste crisis is emerging in the Asia and Pacific region, fuelled by rising quantities of waste, on the one hand, and poor regulation and management, on the other. This crisis threatens to overwhelm the resources and ...

National and Local workshops on Hoilistic Resilient Urban Infrastructure Development were conducted in Manila, Cebu City, Tagbilaran City, and Tacloban City. All Cities and surrounding regions experienced the devastating ...

<p></p> Thailand is one of the five countries globally contributing the most plastic waste pollution into the oceans. Thailand has critical problems with improper waste management infrastructure, poor waste management ...

The Environment and Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change of Vietnam (IMHEN) jointly ...

Strategy paper for the National Workshop on Eco-efficient Water Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Nepal, 15-16 October 2014, Kathmandu City, Nepal.

Management of recyclable waste in Pune, India follows a hybrid model involving informal workers and is widely considered a success story in this sector. One important factor in understanding this achievement is the city's ...

Unmanaged plastic waste poses a major socio-economic, environmental and health risk to urban and marine environments in the Asia Pacific. Each year South-east Asian countries produce 11.7 million metric tonnes of plastic ...

Workshop Report of the National Workshop for Replication of the Integrated Resource Recovery Centre in Pakistan, 20 January 2016, Islamabad, Pakistan.

The State of Asian and Pacific Cities 2015 is the second such report published by UN-Habitat (the United Nations Human Settlements Programme) and ESCAP (the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the ...

In late-2019, few would have imagined that it would be a global pandemic, not climate change, that would dominate the global agenda. While the pandemic continues to demand government attention throughout the Asia-Pacific ...