Urban development
- Urbanization and climate change impacts on future urban flooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam
- H. T. L. Huong; A. Pathirana / Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2013
- Urban development increases flood risk in cities due to local changes in hydrological and hydrometeorological conditions that increase flood hazard, as well as to urban concentrations that increase the vulnerability. The large-scale, ...
- Analysis on the linkages between population dynamics, urban development and disaster risk reduction in Latin America
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
- With both urban population and the frequency of disasters increasing in Latin America, it is necessary to adequately plan for sustainable growth that takes these changing dynamics into account. With this in mind, multiple agencies wit...
- Publication outlining the importance of population dynamics and its role in anticipatory adaption
- G. Martine (ed); D. Schensul (ed) / United Nations Population Fund, 2013
- In 2010, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and El Colegio de Mexico hosted an expert group meeting in Mexico to discuss aspects of population dynamics with p...
- A Socio-economic Study of Informal Sector Workers of Dhaka City
- M Alam / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
- Informal sector is a very important area of the economy for any developing country; it is a growing occupational sector for the less skilled people, living both in urban and rural areas. Considerable amount of employment are ensured b...
- Unlocking the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in developing countries
- C. Cheng / Science Direct, 2010
- This paper presents a new approach for a nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA) framework to unlock the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in dispersed energy end-use sectors in developing countries, more specifically t...
- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Highlights Brief looks at a series o...
- Survival in an unplanned urban fishing wetland in Tanzania
- M. Victor; A. Makalle; N. Ngware / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2008
- This report is a case study of Bonde la Mpunga, a wetland in Dar es Salaam which was formerly used for rice growing. It is an area abundant in natural resources with fishing being the main economic activity. It is a sprawling unplanne...
- Opportunities from rainwater harvesting to human well-being
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
- The aim of this report is to compile a synthesis of experiences that can provide insight into the multiple opportunities rainwater harvesting can have when addressing human well-being, while continuing to sustain a range of ecosystem ...
- Can urban agriculture generate adequate livelihoods and food security?
- M. Redwood (ed) / International Development Research Centre, 2009
- This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the b...
- Understanding urban-rural linkages from a livelihoods perspective
- J. Garrett / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- This briefing seeks to dispel myths surrounding rural as opposed to urban; and challenge the way that these categories are often simplistically used in development policy. Instead of seeing the rural and urban as distinct and separate...
- Urbanization and climate change impacts on future urban flooding in Can Tho city, Vietnam
- H. T. L. Huong; A. Pathirana / Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2013
- Urban development increases flood risk in cities due to local changes in hydrological and hydrometeorological conditions that increase flood hazard, as well as to urban concentrations that increase the vulnerability. The large-scale, ...
- Analysis on the linkages between population dynamics, urban development and disaster risk reduction in Latin America
- International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR), 2012
- With both urban population and the frequency of disasters increasing in Latin America, it is necessary to adequately plan for sustainable growth that takes these changing dynamics into account. With this in mind, multiple agencies wit...
- Publication outlining the importance of population dynamics and its role in anticipatory adaption
- G. Martine (ed); D. Schensul (ed) / United Nations Population Fund, 2013
- In 2010, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and El Colegio de Mexico hosted an expert group meeting in Mexico to discuss aspects of population dynamics with p...
- A Socio-economic Study of Informal Sector Workers of Dhaka City
- M Alam / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
- Informal sector is a very important area of the economy for any developing country; it is a growing occupational sector for the less skilled people, living both in urban and rural areas. Considerable amount of employment are ensured b...
- Unlocking the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in developing countries
- C. Cheng / Science Direct, 2010
- This paper presents a new approach for a nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMA) framework to unlock the potential for greenhouse gas mitigation in dispersed energy end-use sectors in developing countries, more specifically t...
- How can sustainable livelihoods approaches be more successfully applied to future development challenges?
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2011
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Highlights Brief looks at a series o...
- Survival in an unplanned urban fishing wetland in Tanzania
- M. Victor; A. Makalle; N. Ngware / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2008
- This report is a case study of Bonde la Mpunga, a wetland in Dar es Salaam which was formerly used for rice growing. It is an area abundant in natural resources with fishing being the main economic activity. It is a sprawling unplanne...
- Opportunities from rainwater harvesting to human well-being
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2009
- The aim of this report is to compile a synthesis of experiences that can provide insight into the multiple opportunities rainwater harvesting can have when addressing human well-being, while continuing to sustain a range of ecosystem ...
- Can urban agriculture generate adequate livelihoods and food security?
- M. Redwood (ed) / International Development Research Centre, 2009
- This report, by researchers working in urban agriculture (UA), examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanising global South, the b...
- Understanding urban-rural linkages from a livelihoods perspective
- J. Garrett / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- This briefing seeks to dispel myths surrounding rural as opposed to urban; and challenge the way that these categories are often simplistically used in development policy. Instead of seeing the rural and urban as distinct and separate...
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