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Regional Report on Mainstreaming Leave No One Behind (LNOB) in National Urban Policies and Programme in South Asia
(UN.ESCAP, 2023-12-31)
<p>The Regional Report of Mainstreaming Leave No One Behind (LNOB) in National Urban Policies and Programmes in South Asia was prepared with the completion of a project that was implemented in partnership with the ...
Kampot : solid waste management baseline survey
(United Nations, 2011)
Current solid waste management systems in Asia are strained, and landfill space is fast becoming a rare commodity. Governments face increasing costs for disposal, while public health and the environment suffer from the ...
Cities of opportunity : partnerships for an inclusive and sustainable future : report of the fifth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum, Bangkok, Thailand, 20-25 June 2011
(United Nations, 2011)
<p>The fifth Asia-Pacific Urban Forum (APUF-5) was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 20-25 June 2011. It was organized by ESCAP in conjunction with more than 30 partner organizations within and outside the United Nations ...
Ta Khmao solid waste management baseline survey
(United Nations, 2011)
<p>An urgent shift towards waste-to-resource approaches is required in order to address the rapidly growing quantities of waste being generated in cities in developing countries. Typically, the organic fraction of solid ...
Improving city infrastructure management in Uzbekistan : problems and search for new mechanisms and instruments
(Center for Economic Research, 2011)
<p>The relevance of management urban infrastructure in Uzbekistan is connected, first of all, with high rates of urbanization. One of the distinct outcomes over the past 20 years in Uzbekistan is the acceleration of the ...
Bishkek action plan : proposals on further implementation of forecasting sustainable urbanization tool
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-01)
<p>This Action Plan was developed through the project, ‘Forecasting Sustainable Urbanization: Support for Sustainable Infrastructure Planning in Cities’, led by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission ...
Dushanbe action plan: proposals on future implementation of forecasting sustainable urbanization tool
(UN.ESCAP, 2022-12-01)
This Action Plan was developed through the project, “Forecasting Sustainable Urbanization: Support for Sustainable Infrastructure Planning in Cities”, led by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and ...
The urban nexus : integrating resources for sustainable cities
(United Nations, 2019)
For centuries, energy, water, food and land have been the major resources contributing to life as we know it and serving as the basis for establishing social structures and economic systems. The sustainable use of these ...
Closing the loop : Sai Mai district, Bangkok case study
(United Nations, 2019)
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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 ...
Vertical integration of climate change policies and actions in Asia-Pacific cities
(United Nations, 2020)
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 ...