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></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 ...

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 Seoul Initiative on Green Growth was proposed by the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea at the Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific 2005 (MCED 2005) and ...

This publication is the second one of the series of publications on water resources management produced in connection with the UNESCAP project on "Capacity-building in Strategic Planning and Management of Natural Resources ...

<p>This publication focuses on emerging issues of policy and management practices in sustainable development of land and mineral resources in East and South-East Asia. It provides guidelines and policy options in the ...