Cities
A city is a large human settlement. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. This concentration also can have significant negative consequences, such as forming urban heat islands, concentrating pollution, and stressing water supplies and other resources. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of …
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IWMI: International Water Management Institute · 12 September 2024 English
Paris’s efforts highlight the difficulty cities face in cleaning waterways to preserve human, animal and ecosystem health. The post What the attempts to clean the Seine reveal about water pollution worldwide …
<p>Paris’s efforts highlight the difficulty cities face in cleaning waterways to preserve human, animal …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 12 September 2024 English
Participation Agenda Date: 12 - 13 September, 2024 Location: Museu do Amanhã ‘Museum of Tomorrow’, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil The One Planet Network Forum - a platform for cooperation and …
vulnerabilities through inclusive approaches The role of cities and local governments in promoting well-being, …
VTPI: Victoria Transport Policy Institute · 12 September 2024 English
This analysis indicates that children tend to be healthier and more successful growing up in compact neighborhoods where residents frequently walk and bicycle, drive less at lower speeds, have affordable …
help achieve those goals. Many people assume that cities are unhealthy and oppressive, and so encourage … children are better off living in suburbs rather than cities. Understanding these impacts is important because … below, imply that crimes increase with density, so cities are more dangerous than suburbs. However, that … in cities, but such evidence does not actually prove that people are safer in suburbs than cities. 4 … Victoria Transport Policy Institute Similarly, cities may have higher rates of mental illnesses, addiction …
CDRI: Cambodia Development Resource Institute · 11 September 2024 English
That is, donors are the agenda-setters, identifying projects they seek to fund, and then disburse funds to INGOs that have the technical capacity and accountability infrastructure (i.e., monitoring and evaluation …
runs a health outreach program in Jamaica’s inner cities and rural areas that seeks US-based organisations …
AU: African Union · 10 September 2024 English
the African Union, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), and other bodies such as the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa) to elevate the management of urbanization among the … inclusive cities, on the initiative of the African Union, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, with the support of UN-Habitat and the United Cities and Local …
is dependent on the way African urban areas and cities are planned, governed and managed so that they … inclusive economic development, so that the role of cities and towns in structuring the socio-economic development … their hinterland is supported, and the role of cities is recognized and the power of the supply chain … financing needs for the development and management of cities and towns, or the development of such policies … adopted by member states to increase the capacity of cities to address shocks and stresses related to climate …
CEEW: Council on Energy, Environment and Water · 10 September 2024 English
The bars in the chart show the additional RE resulting from the tightening of each constraint and the cumulative RE for each combination of constraints. [...] The constraints are listed …
electrification and developing low-emission zones across cities; assessing green jobs potential at the state-level … work focuses on building the climate resilience of cities and its systems through data-driven quantitative …
Governance Institute of Australia · 10 September 2024 English
AI ethics and governance It addresses the moral, legal and societal implications of AI, emphasising the importance of AI ethics principles, their implementation and operationalisation, and governance for AI. [...] …
oldest and largest law firms, with offices in six cities, nearly 200 partners, and provide a full range …
UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme · 10 September 2024 English
Effective Actions Essential to Reaching the Climate goals. PATH is a coalition calling on governments and cities to make a real commitment to walking and cycling as a key solution to the climate, health and equity …
PATH is a coalition calling on governments and cities to make a real commitment to walking and cycling …
CEEW: Council on Energy, Environment and Water · 9 September 2024 English
Figure A20 shows the circle rates of land (on the left) and the final land cost (on the right) considered in the assessment. [...] For a WSH configuration, the split …
Examples include houses, dense villages / towns / cities, paved roads, and asphalt. 6 Bare Bare ground category …
Mandala · 9 September 2024 English
This report assesses the impact of climate change on Australia’s tourism industry, highlighting the significant risks posed to both natural and man-made tourism assets. Using the Zurich-Mandala Climate Risk Index, …
nationally, 65 per cent of which are outside capital cities. More must be done to ensure tourism is resilient … key motivators for travel to urban centres and cities and drive a significant amount of Australia’s total … tourism sites are key drivers of visitation to both cities and regional areas. In UNESCO’s world heritage … across Australia, 65% of which are outside capital cities. Analysis found jobs in Queensland are most at …