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Posted on: 12 November 2014
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The latest issue of DLA Piper’s Real Estate Finance examines the key drivers for international real estate finance.
China’s obsession with vertical cities
Posted on: 11 November 2014
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According to this article in the Guardian newspaper, by the end of next year one-in-three of the world’s 100m+ skyscrapers will be in China, as its state-orchestrated urbanisation drive prompts a megacity building bonanza.
Community-based adaptation to climate change empowers coastal communities
Posted on: 11 November 2014
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In this video, produced by the Asian Development Bank and WorldFish, community members and leaders in the coastal districts of Atauro and Batugade in Timor-Leste learn how to protect their livelihoods against climate change by using community-based adaptation processes.
Car sharing services in emerging economies
Posted on: 11 November 2014
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GIZ-SUTP has released it latest technical document which aims to evaluate the potential, as well as the necessary political support structure, for the implementation of carsharing services in emerging economies. Beginning with a basic introduction to the function and benefits of car sharing, the paper identifies key success factors and best practice of mature car sharing markets.
Thailand stocktaking report on sustainable transport and climate change: Data, policy and monitoring
Posted on: 11 November 2014
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This report reviews existing data, policies and international donor activity in the area of sustainable transport in Thailand, in order to provide policy-makers, researchers, international donors and other stakeholders a reference document for sustainable transport and climate change.
Just cities for children: Voices from urban slums
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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This report highlights World Vision’s experience in supporting children to express their ideas for a better city to key decision makers on a global platform, and in mainstreaming child participatory processes into its urban programmes. The paper analyses the ways in which children are able to contribute to safe, healthy, resilient and prosperous cities by influencing urban policies, processes and institutions that better reflect the diverse needs of children. It also addresses questions about children’s abilities to participate, and how this engagement takes into account their evolving capacities and vulnerabilities.
Market cities: Port-au-Prince, shows the power of public markets to regenerate
Posted on: 7 November 2014
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This blog uses the example in Port au-Prince to highlight how markets have played key roles in helping to re-build and re-energize areas that had been devastated by natural disasters.
How can we transcend slum urbanism in Africa?
Posted on: 6 November 2014
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In this video, University of Cape Town professor and founding director of the African Centre for Cities, Edgar Pieterse explains the controversial logic of slum urbanism. A logic driven by the privatisation of urban services and infrastructure that creates a sharp divided in society.
Deltas in times of climate change II. Rotterdam, 24-26 September 2014
Posted on: 5 November 2014
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The conference brought together scientists and practitioners, business people and public officials, civil servants and people from non-governmental organisations to reflect on the latest insights from science and how people in deltas are coping with climate change. Presentations are available online.
Second Arab conference on disaster risk reduction. Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 14-16 September 2014
Posted on: 5 November 2014
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The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the South Sinai Governorate and the League of Arab States (LAS) organized this conference. Adhering to the outcomes of the first Arab Conference for DRR, held in Aqaba (Jordan) in March 2013, the 2nd Arab Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) provided a forum for Arab governments, policy makers, planners, academia, civil society and development experts to discuss disaster risk reduction in the region. The Conference highlighted the progress of disaster risk reduction efforts and review the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 in the Arab region. It also aimed to shape regional priorities towards the successor framework for disaster risk reduction beyond 2015. Presentations and background information are available online.
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