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Geology for urban planning : selected papers on the Asian and Pacific region
(United Nations, 1985)
<p>Presents an overview of the correct application of geologic knowledge to urban development in cities such as Bombay, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Karachi, Singapore, Rabaul, Shanghai and Tangshan. Also notes the effects of ...
Population of Bangladesh
(United Nations, 1981)
The purpose of the monograph is to provide the countries of the ESCAP region with an understanding of existing population problems, as well as with a scientific basis for decision-making, policy formulation and determination ...
Achievements of the United Nations decade for women in Asia and the Pacific
(United Nations, 1987)
<br>Growing world-wide recognition of the unequal participation of women in development culminated in the declaration of 1975 as International Women’s Year and of the subsequent ten years as the United Nations Decade ...
Country report : No. 5: migration, urbanization and development in Thailand
(United Nations, 1982)
<p>In response to the expressed need of several Governments for assistance in tackling their population distribution problems and upon the recommendations of the Second Asian Population Conference, held at Tokyo in November ...
Poverty, productivity and participation : contours of an alternative strategy for poverty eradication
(United Nations, 1985)
<p>The report is divided into three parts. Part I describes the poverty situation in rural Asia and the poverty-focused programmes in the five countries. Part II develops an alternative approach to poverty eradication ...
Study on the role of informal paratransit in the socio-economic development of urban areas
(United Nations, 1987)
<p>Conventional planning for metropolitan transport system has usually come up with proposals for urban railways and extensive highway networks, although the emphasis varied from one city to another. It has, however, been ...
Sectoral energy demand in Malaysia
(United Nations, 1989)
<p>To further strengthen energy demand analysis capabilities, the Malaysian Government had taken the opportunity offered to participate in Sub-activity P-1.1 on Sectoral Energy Demand Studies implemented within phase III ...
Mortality and health issue : levels and trends of mortality in Thailand
(United Nations, 1986)
<p>This paper is designed according to con census of the Final (Third) Meeting of Study Directors convened as part of the study from 5 to 7 May 1986 in Bangkok.1 To achieve a reasonable degree of uniformity in the presentation, ...
Stratigraphic correlation between sedimentary basins of the ESCAP region Vol. IX : proceedings of the fourth working group meeting, 1982
(United Nations, 1982)
The Fourth Working Group Meeting on Stratigraphic Correlation between Sedimentary Basins of the ESCAP region organized by ESCAP was held at Bangkok from 1 to 5 November 1 982.
New and renewable sources of energy for development
(United Nations, 1988)
<p>The penetration of new and renewable sources of energy was not only limited by shortage of capital: it is even more disturbing that in some cases where capital was in fact available at a level at which a significant ...