Recursos Etiquetado: Urban

16 Artículos encontrados (Mostrando 11 - 16)

  1. Cities of the world: world regional urban development

    19/1/1983 Cities of the World catches the changing mood of geography in the 1980s in an exciting way. The authors use a wide-angle lens to sweep across the emerging world urban patterns, surveying from continent to continent. It is a study in comparative world urban development. The great interest today in...
    City planning Urbanization Urban policy Urban

  2. African cities in crisis: managing rapid urban growth

    Through a set of case studies, this study attempts to examine the interplay of many factors--domestic policies as well as exogenous events such as changes in the price of oil and severe fluctuations in rainfall. the remained of this chapter looks at population growth, environmental stress, and...
    Urban Urban policy Urbanization

  3. Income Generation Schemes for the Urban Poor

    Recurso clave 1/1/1990 Income generation schemes in urban areas of the Third World are many and varied. However, too often such schemes fail to achieve sustainable economic viability and depend on continued funding by development agencies. This book examines the reasons for failures or successes and stresses that those...
    Small Enterprise D... Income Generating ... Urban Urban poor

  4. The Urban Resource Centre, Karachi

    20/1/2008 Poverty, IIED, Karachi, Orangi Pilot Project, Urban Resource Centre, Pakistan, Karachi Mass Transit Project, grassroots organizations This is a condensed version of a paper prepared for an IIED initiative on “Learning from Local Organisations for Poverty Reduction and Environmental Management”....
    Urban Urban Resource Ce... City planning-Paki...

  5. Use of Untreated Wastewater in Peri-Urban Agriculture in Pakistan: Risks and Opportunities

    This report deals with the environmental aspects of the study of health, environment and socioeconomic aspects of irrigation with untreated wastewater. The objectives of the study were to identify the environmental impacts of wastewater use in a small town in Pakistan, and to estimate water and...
    Urban Water Reuse Sewage Irrigation Water Sewage Irrigation Pakistan Urban Runoff

  6. TN #31 Jardinería en Azoteas y Lugares Urbanos

    Recurso clave
    1/1/1996 ¿Qué puede hacer una familia si la tasa de desempleo nacional es más de 50%, los sueldos son de uno o dos dólares por día, los precios de comida se están subiendo y a veces son más altos que en los EEUU, no tienen ni ahorros ni crédito, y no hay una red de seguridad gubernamental? Para muchos,...
    Urban Agriculture Urban Gardening Urban Tire Garden Wick Irrigation Rooftop Gardening