CITYNET Effective Participatory Urban Management: Proceedings of the Regional Policy Seminar on Effective Participatory Urban Management, Shanghai, 7-9 November 1996, 1997, 190 pages
This report covers the first regional seminar held with a view to finding appropriate solutions to the rapid and complex economic, social, political environment and technological change currently being experienced by cities in the Asia-Pacific region and also includes an overview paper on strategic urban management, issue papers and best practice case studies, along with action plans on effective urban participatory urban management, which were produced by participants and specific to their national situations.
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CITYNET Guidelines on the Participatory Approach to Urban Environmental Management, 1996, 93 pages
This report deals with guidelines on disposal of solid wastes through affordable and environmentally sound means, based on current thinking and the latest practices in composting within the Western European context. The Guidelines, though far-reaching, should be considered as a mirror or sounding board for local practices that may dictate or justify other considerations and approaches and less stringent starting points. Also dealt with are guiding frameworks for waste policy, legislation and environmental impact assessment, following the sequence of actions involved in the factual realization of a composting or fermentation plant and of a landfill.
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ST/ESCAP/1628
CITYNET Report and Proceedings of the Bandung Regional Policy Workshop on Municipal Revenue Enhancing Strategies, Bandung, Indonesia, 4-6 December 1995, 1996, 121 pages
The workshop reviewed in this CITYNET report had as its main objective to focus on ways and means of revenue enhancing strategies, in particular property taxation and non-land-base revenue potentials as well as inter-government transfers in the Asia-Pacific region. Also included in workshop's summary of reports are selected papers providing an overview of municipal finance, non-land components of municipal and land-based revenues, infrastructure privatization, external sources of revenue and case histories; Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, Colombo Municipal Council, Dhaka City Corporation, Kuala Lumpur and Mobilization of Municipal Finance in India
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CITYNET Urban Transport and Mass Transit: Proceedings of the Regional Policy Seminar on Urban Transport and Mass Transit, New Delhi, 14-17 October 1996, 1997, 59 pages
The basic objective of this regional policy seminar was to provide a platform to create a people-friendly urban transport. Various factors in traffic management were brought together to exchange ideas on various ways of managing urban transport and measuring policies at the local level as well as to examine how urban transports could adequately serve the urban poor. The report of the seminar's proceedings includes a local agenda for urban transport infrastructure and services, the pros and cons for various options of ownership and regulation of Mass Transit Systems, and development management plans for institutional coordination among various agencies.
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CITYNET Wastewater Management in Asia: Proceedings of the CITYNET/LIFE Regional Training Workshop on Wastewater Management, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-26 July 1996, 1997, 183 pages
The workshop's objective was to transfer knowledge and skills to manage both domestic and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, planning of drainage and sewerage, and water pollution control with special emphasis on community participation in dealing with wastewater within the Asia-Pacific region. Included in this report on the workshop's proceedings are technical papers on wastewater management in Bangkok, Colombo, Guntur, Karachi, Madras, Muntinlupa, Phanatnikom, Pokhara, Shanghai and Yokohama.
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Environmental Protection and Urban Planning in Small Towns: A Case Study of the Integrated Action Planning Approach in Nepal, 1997, 55 pages
The publication examines the Integrated Action Planning (IAP) approach as practiced in small towns of Nepal. IAP is a participatory planning process through which rapid physical, environmental and investment planning is undertaken. At all stages of the process, representatives of the local residents are involved. While IAP has been successful in meeting its objectives, its sustainability is uncertain because of the lack of legislative backing from the central government.
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Living in Asian Cities, 1996, 186 pages
The rise of the "Asia-Pacific Century" viewed from the environmental aspect, focuses on three key core issues: water resources, waste management and urbanization, all of which pose enormous challenges that if not properly managed could mark Asia's decline rather than its ascendency. The prognosis is either desperate or hopeful, depending on the dawning awareness in the minds of the establishment of the need for radical change, if only the right kinds of change can be identified and implemented. "Living in Asian Cities" takes a hard look at the environmental problems confronting Asian cities and makes recommendations, calling for a new approach to policy and institutional change.
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| ST/ESCAP/1660 | free |
Report and Proceedings of the Workshop on the Use of Urban Forums as Consultative Mechanisms for Urban Planning and Policy Making, Bangkok 19-21 September 1995, 1996, 49 pages
Reviewed in this report are the workshop's objectives to share experiences and establish a network of urban forums in Asia and the Pacific. Increasing access to information, relationship with the media, sustainable finance mechanisms, maintaining an effective level of voluntary human resources contributions, roles and aims of urban forums, increasing the number of urban forums in different cities, networking among urban forums and assistance from international programmes, are among the workshop's discussions and conclusions, covered in this report.
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As related to the subject of this section are the publications listed below. Please look for a detailed description in the given sections.
* Geological Aspects of Land-Use Planning (Mineral Resources)
* Manual on Environmental and Urban Geology of Fast-growing Cities (Mineral Resources)
* Urban Community-based Savings and Credit Systems in Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic
Republic and Viet Nam (Poverty Alleviation)