In the ESCAP region, the urban population is expected to reach 2.23 billion by 2020, constituting 55 per cent of the region's total projected population and making it the largest urban population in the world. As rapid ...

<p>Urbanization is on the rise in most developing countries of the Economic and Social Commission forAsia and the Pacific (ESCAP) region, supported by both migration from rural to urban areas and natural population growth. ...

<p>The Ministerial-level Conference on Environment and Develop&shy; ment in Asia and the Pacific held at Bangkok in October 1990 reviewed the state of the environment in the region and examined the implications of global ...

<p></p> At the dawn of the twenty first century, the world is confronted with two conflicting situations that relate to the survival and well being of human kind – economic and scientific advances providing comfort ...

<p>The State of Urbanization in Asia and the Pacific was prepared by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) to serve as a basis for the discussions at the Ministerial Conference ...

<p>The main principle for the sustainable development of water resources is that the rate of extraction both from ground and surface water sources should not exceed the rate at which the resource is renewed and its extraction ...

The World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in Johannesburg, South Africa in August-September 2002, recognized that sustainable development of the globe was critically dependent upon achieving sustainable development ...

Since 1992, environmental quality in the Region has deteriorated. In advance of the September, 2002, World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), a number of agencies active in the Asia-Pacific Region, including ADB, ...

With the Ministerial Declaration at the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific providing the basis, this publication focuses particularly on eco-efficiency and advocates for a ...

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 ...