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Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789211316896
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Dubai International Award for Best Practices to Improve the living Environment written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814313300
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Developing Living Cities written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an important and timely book. With half of humanity living in cities, our future will depend on how well we manage our cities. This book poses six inter-generational challenges to cities. If a city deals successfully with them, it will become a living, thriving, prosperous and delightful place to live, work and visit." Prof Tommy Koh Chairman, Governing Council, Asia Pacific Water Forum --
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Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 921131965X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Best Practices on Social Sustainability in Historic Districts written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9211314321
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Innovative and Effective Approaches to Housing written by and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael K. Wells
Publisher : Continuing Education Press
ISBN 13 : 9780876781203
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Successful Program Evaluation written by Michael K. Wells and published by Continuing Education Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Program evaluation is the key to an organization's success. Analyzing program outcomes can help you implement cost efficiencies and improve in areas that need extra attention. It gives you the opportunity to evaluate whether what you're doing is working, and if it's not, to make the necessary changes. A strong evaluation section in your grant proposal tells the grantor that the organization is succeeding in its mission, or if it's not, that it has a plan in place to improve future outcomes. This can make the difference between getting funded or turned down."--Book cover
Author : Else Øyen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Best Practices in Poverty Reduction written by Else Øyen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty reduction has come to be proclaimed as the core function of international development agencies, including the World Bank. This book focuses on a notion of best practice, and the key role which it can potentially play in strengthening anti-poverty strategies. Contributors explore the social and organizational factors influencing the transition of an ordinary particular anti-poverty project or strategy into becoming established as best practice. They examine the critical policy-relevant aspect of the conditions under which a best practice, once identified, and embedded as it is in a social setting, can be successfully transferred to other situations and countries.
Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789211317671
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Enabling Shelter Strategies written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen M. Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136482016
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Planning for Sustainability written by Stephen M. Wheeler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases. Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable cities and towns might be created, how local ecosystems can be restored, how social inequalities might be reduced, how greenhouse gas emissions might be lowered, and how more sustainable forms of economic development can be brought about. The second edition has been extensively revised and updated throughout, including an improved structure with chapters now organized under three sections: the nature of sustainable planning, issues central to sustainable planning, and scales of sustainable planning. New material includes greater discussion of climate change, urban food systems, the relationships between public health and the urban environment, and international development. Building on past schools of planning theory, Planning for Sustainability lays out a sustainability planning framework that pays special attention to the rapidly evolving institutions and power structures of a globalizing world. By considering in turn each scale of planning—international, national, regional, municipal, neighborhood, and site and building—the book illustrates how sustainability initiatives at different levels can interrelate. Only by weaving together planning initiatives and institutions at different scales, and by integrating efforts across disciplines, can we move towards long-term human and ecological well-being.
Author : Fritz Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317007689
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Transforming Distressed Global Communities written by Fritz Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. Our long-held assumptions about man and nature and how they interact are defunct. We realize now that we can no longer continue to build without addressing the long-term impacts of our actions and their spillovers. Energy and natural resources are finite. The way we configure economies has come into question. In the developed world, especially in the United States, infrastructure and the notions that underpin it are outdated. Meanwhile, the developing world is experiencing major, rapid transformations in lifestyles and economies that are affecting billions of people and requiring a whole new way of planning human settlements. Cities are the key to our future; they represent the most effective vehicle for positive advancements in the human condition and environmental change. This volume argues for the need to redesign and re-plan our cities in holistic ways that reflect our new understanding and relate to their diversity and multi-dimensionality. Presenting a range of case studies from around the world, this volume examines how these distressed cities are dealing with these issues in planning for their future. Alongside these empirical chapters are philosophical essays that consider the future of distressed cities. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations, private consulting firms, international organizations and foundations, and policy officials, this volume provides a unique and comprehensive overview on how to transform distressed communities into more livable places.
Author : Mélanie Robertson
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 1853397237
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Cities written by Mélanie Robertson and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4 Healthy, sustainable, and culturally appropriate living and working environments: Domestic pig production in Malika, Senegal5 Housing for the urban poor through informal providers, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 6 Socio-spatial tensions and interactions: An ethnography of the condominium housing of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 7 Partnership modalities for the management of drinking water in poor urban neighbourhoods: The example of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; 8 Rethink, reuse: Improving collective action capacity regarding solid waste management and income generation in Koh Kred, Thailand.
Author : Stijn Oosterlynck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136884955
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Strategic Spatial Projects written by Stijn Oosterlynck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with how spatial planning and design can better contribute to fundamental changes and transformations of the spatial organisation of society that are at once qualitative, sustainable and socially inclusive. For academics, researchers and students in planning, urban design, urban studies, human and economic geography, public administration and policy studies.
Author : Muhammad Mohiuddin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1837681430
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book Multiculturalism and Interculturalism written by Muhammad Mohiuddin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book portrays the phenomenon of cultural diversity in its true context and helps readers to understand a variety of multicultural and intercultural issues. It also explores how cultural diversity can be learned and coexist with and create a conducive environment of creativity and innovation.
Author : Jaina L. Moan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851098917
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Energy Use Worldwide written by Jaina L. Moan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-07-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines recent energy use trends and their potential consequences for the global population. Global energy needs have increased dramatically over the past 100 years, and they will continue to increase, creating energy, environmental, and social crises. Can we solve this problem? The first step, according to the authors of Energy Use Worldwide: A Reference Handbook, is to understand fundamental energy issues. Combining their knowledge from the complementary fields of science and policy, the authors begin by explaining the basic facts of energy—what it is, where it comes from, why it is important. Then they show how energy use is linked to global economics, identify key players, and examine the social and environmental consequences of our energy decisions. For readers interested in—or worried about—our use of fossil fuels, this book provides a keen understanding of both the problem and the possible solutions.
Author : James P. Cramer
Publisher : Greenway Communications
ISBN 13 : 0975565427
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Almanac of Architecture & Design 2006 written by James P. Cramer and published by Greenway Communications. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Jones
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 142001014X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Watershed Health Monitoring written by Chris Jones and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-05-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watershed Health Monitoring: Emerging Technologies is a concise reference that defines the concept of watershed health and explains that monitoring the health of watersheds is a critical precursor to adaptive resource management on a watershed basis. The focus of the text is a clear description of an innovative "Closed Loop" model that specifies fo
Author : Sarah Bott
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Preventing and Responding to Gender-based Violence in Middle and Low-income Countries written by Sarah Bott and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide, patterns of violence against women differ markedly from violence against men. For example, women are more likely than men to be sexually assaulted or killed by someone they know. The United Nations has defined violence against women as "gender-based" violence, to acknowledge that such violence is rooted in gender inequality and is often tolerated and condoned by laws, institutions, and community norms. Violence against women is not only a profound violation of human rights, but also a costly impediment to a country's national development. While gender-based violence occurs in many forms throughout the life cycle, this review focuses on two of the most common types-physical intimate partner violence and sexual violence by any perpetrator. Unfortunately, the knowledge base about effective initiatives to prevent and respond to gender-based violence is relatively limited. Few approaches have been rigorously evaluated, even in high-income countries. And such evaluations involve numerous methodological challenges. Nonetheless, the authors review what is known about more and less effective-or at least promising-approaches to prevent and respond to gender-based violence. They present definitions, recent statistics, health consequences, costs, and risk factors of gender-based violence. The authors analyze good practice initiatives in the justice, health, and education sectors, as well as multisectoral approaches. For each of these sectors, they examine initiatives that have addressed laws and policies, institutional reforms, community mobilization, and individual behavior change strategies. Finally, the authors identify priorities for future research and action, including funding research on the health and socioeconomic costs of violence against women, encouraging science-based program evaluations, disseminating evaluation results across countries, promoting investment in effective prevention and treatment initiatives, and encouraging public-private partnerships.
Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429015267
Total Pages : 1382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology written by Ian Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbook’s scope by including ecological design; consideration of cultural dimensions of the use and conservation of urban nature; the roles of government and civil society; and the continuing issues of equity and fairness in access to urban greenspaces. New features include an emphasis on the biophilic design of homes and workplaces, demonstrating the value of nature, in order to counter the still prevalent attitude among many developers that nature is a constraint rather than a value. The volume explores great practical achievements that have occurred since the first edition, with many governments increasingly recognizing and legislating on urban nature and green infrastructure matters, since cities play a major role in adapting to change, particularly to climate crisis. New topics such as the ecological role of light at night and human microbiota in the urban ecosystem are introduced. Additional attention is given to food production in cities, particularly the multiple roles of urban agriculture and household gardens in different contexts from wealthy communities to the poorest informal settlements in deprived communities. The emphasis is on demonstrating what can be achieved, and what is already being done. The book aims to help scholars and graduate students by providing an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current urban ecological thinking across the range of disciplines, such as geography, ecology, environmental science/studies, planning, and urban studies, that converge in the study of towns and cities and urban design and living. It will also assist practitioners and civil society members in discovering the ways diff erent specialists and thinkers approach urban nature.
