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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia
Posted on: 18 January 2013
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START promotes research-driven capacity building to advance knowledge on global environmental change in Africa and Asia-Pacific. With funding from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network, START is supporting five interdisciplinary research teams to conduct research on integrating disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) for resilient development in South Asia. Under this broad research theme, specific projects aim to address three sub-themes: Institutional arrangements and governance structures that influence the degree of flexibility and sustainability of DRR across varying scales; Policy innovations that promote convergence of DRR and CCA into policy and practice at varying scales; The changing nature of development factors, which shape vulnerability to disasters.
Design Other 90 Network
Posted on: 17 January 2013
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Design with the Other 90%: CITIES features sixty projects, proposals, and solutions that address the complex issues arising from the unprecedented rise of informal settlements in emerging and developing economies. Divided into six themes—Exchange, Reveal, Adapt, Include, Prosper and Access—to help orient the visitor, the exhibition shines the spotlight on communities, designers, architects, and private, civic, and public organizations that are working together to formulate innovative approaches to urban planning, affordable housing, entrepreneurship, nonformal education, public health, and more.
Seeds of knowledge: Contributing to climate change solutions
Posted on: 11 January 2013
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The United Nations Environment Programme has published a booklet of 24 case studies from 17 countries on grassroots solutions to the impacts of climate change. With its focus on developing and emerging economies, the publication aims to show that grassroots, community-led responses are already playing an essential role in building resilience to climate change across all regions of the world.
Cities Today December 2012
Posted on: 11 January 2013
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The latest issue of Cities Today has news and articles on global cities.
Fast-forward: Planning in a (hyper) dynamic urban context. Perm, Russia, 10-13 September 2012
Posted on: 3 January 2013
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The main focus of the 48th Congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) was on dynamic urban change: growth and decline; environmental and socio-political change; natural and human-made disasters. The Congress also considered the relevance of the theme for the host country, and an open planners’ forum was held for contemporary research, practice and ideas. A large number of presentations are available online.
Sanctuary in the city? Urban displacement and vulnerability in the Gaza Strip
Posted on: 2 January 2013
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This report illuminates the consequences of upheaval generated by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the citizens of Gaza. Based on hundreds of interviews with the enclave’s residents, and those tasked with assisting them, the research demonstrates that the military tactics deployed in ‘Operation Pillar of Defence’ are just one of many factors that generate the displacement, loss of shelter, livelihoods and life that are all too frequently the price paid by civilians caught up in conflict. The authors offer a series of recommendations to national entities; international governments and donors; international humanitarian and development organisations.
Climate mitigation and adaptation in Africa: Evidence from patent data
Posted on: 6 December 2012
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This paper presents comparative data on innovation in selected climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies in the context of Africa. Such analysis informs policy aimed at encouraging international technology transfer and development of domestic innovation capacities. The report presents detailed analysis of the role of Africa in development of these technologies (invention), and then moves on to examine Africa as a technology market (as reflected in patenting). In addition, the authors briefly touch upon the question of cross-border technology development (co-invention) in Africa.
City resilience in Africa: A ten essentials pilot
Posted on: 6 December 2012
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Lacking both early-warning systems and risk-reduction budgets, medium-sized towns in Africa are poorly equipped to respond to emergencies provoked by natural disasters, rural-urban migration and ecosystem destruction, according to a new United Nations report.
Shutting in the poor: Beijing’s policy for sealing rural migrants into urban villages
Posted on: 5 December 2012
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Chengzhongcun are areas classified as rural villages which have been absorbed into China’s growing cities, becoming thriving unregulated rental markets for rural migrants in the process. The author of this article describes how Beijing’s new “sealed management” policy seeks forcefully to bring these areas back under state control.
Assessing the investment climate for climate investments: A comparative framework for clean energy investments in South Asia in a global context
Posted on: 4 December 2012
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The World Bank has released a report that aims to facilitate the development of a policy framework for promoting climate-friendly investment in South Asia. A major output of the study is the piloting of the Climate Investment Readiness Index, a tool for evaluating the enabling environment for private sector investment in different countries.
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