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Low Carbon City: A Guidebook for City Planners and Practioners
UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, 2013Produced as part of a larger United Nations Environment Programme project called Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India (LCT), this guidebook is aimed toward city planners, transport division executives, and urban transport consultants.DocumentUrban Governance: An essential determinant of city development?
World Vision Institute for Research and Innovation, 2009The term ‘governance’ is used in a variety of disciplines such as economics or life sciences. In international development the concept culminated in the idea of ‘good governance’, defining principles for a sustainable political process.DocumentSocial and Governance Dimensions of Climate Change: Implications for Policy
World Bank, 2009How can countries prepare to manage the impact of climate-change induced natural disasters? How can countries ensure that they have the governmental institutions required to manage the challenge of adaptation to climate change?DocumentWhat is Good Governance?
Women in Development Section, UNESCAP, 2010The terms ‘governance’ and ‘good governance’ are being increasingly used in development literature. It relates to the process of decision making and implementation. Major donors and international financial institutions are increasingly basing their aid and loans on the condition that reforms that ensure ‘good governance’ are undertaken.DocumentTackling the Limits to Adaptation: An International Framework to Address 'Loss and Damage' from Climate Change Impacts.
ActionAid International, 2012The aim of this report is to highlight the issue of climate change loss and damage. It calls for urgent action on the part of the UNFCCC and its parties. Section 2 outlines the historical and scientific contexts of loss and damage, and Section 3 situates loss and damage in its legal and moral contexts.DocumentA Right to a Decent Home: Asia Pacific Poverty Housing Report
Habitat for Humanity, 2007This report gives an overview of housing conditions for people living in poverty in the Asia-Pacific region. It highlights the importance of community-led shelter development as well as discussing housing conditions with a focus on urbanisation and population growth in cities. Various types of informal settlements are explored.DocumentAdapting to Climate Change: Cities and the Urban Poor
2011This paper explores some of the emerging issues for cities in the developing world as they develop strategies to adapt to the effects of climate change. People living in the most poverty are typically the most vulnerable. The urban poor are vulnerable because of where they live and the condition of their housing – they also face a limited ability to move to a safer environment.DocumentClimate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor
World Bank, 2012The residents of slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards, living on the most vulnerable lands within cities.DocumentCatalyzing Urban Climate Resilience: Applying resilience Concepts to Planning Practice in the ACCCRN Program (2009–2011)
Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network: Indore Initiative, 2011'Catalysing Urban Climate Resilience' is an Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (ISET) publication, reporting on the application of resilience concepts to planning practice in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) program.DocumentNMT Infrastructure in India: Investment, Policy and Design
UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development, 2013One of three reports which evaluate and summarise options for low carbon city planning, non-motorised transport (NMT) and infrastructure risks due to climate variability in India. The reports were published as part of the project on ‘Promoting Low Carbon Transport in India.Pages