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May, 2016
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Author: ISET-International, CCCO Can Tho
Can Tho is a growing city of about one million people, approximately half of whom live in the city’s peripheral rural districts. Rapid land conversion and population increase in peri-urban areas just outside the highdensity urban core means that new residents are moving into areas that...
ASIA:Vietnam Vietnam:Can Tho |
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May, 2016
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Author: ISET- International, CCCO Binh Dinh
Quy Nhon is a city of about 300,000 people on the coast of Binh Dinh province in central Vietnam. City boundaries are expanding and urban development is increasing in peripheral areas outside the urban core. Like most areas on the central coast of Vietnam, Quy Nhon city is prone to flsh flods...
ASIA:Vietnam Vietnam:Quy Nhon |
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February, 2016
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Author: Aditya Bahadur, Julian Doczi
The world is facing a growing number of natural, technological, economic, socialand political shocks and stresses. But the people, places and countries that are themost vulnerable to their impacts often lack the resources needed for structuredprocesses of innovation to deliver scientifically...
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December, 2015
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Author: Nguyen Ngoc Huy, Tran Van Giai Phong , Stephen Tyler
The lack of a secure and clean potable water supply in peri-urban areas is a major source of vulnerability for poor residents on the periphery of rapidly expanding cities in South East Asia. Climate change will increase the demand for clean drinking water, while adversely affecting supply and...
ASIA:Vietnam Vietnam:Can Tho |
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November, 2015
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Author: Alejandro Ciencia, Lorelei Crisologo Mendoza, Gladys Cruz, Nimreh Calde, Michael Cabalfin, Maileenita Peñalba
A resilient city must have, among other things, the capacity to satisfy the water-related and sanitation needs of its residents in a manner that is sustainable, equitable and conducive to human development. This working paper presents the findings of a study on water security, water access,...
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May, 2015
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Increasing urbanisation and the accompanying changes in land-use patterns are leading to a silent crisis through the destruction of ecosystems and the services they provide to support the poor, as well as affecting the resilience of urban areas. Using the example of Gorakhpur City in India&rsquo...
ASIA:India India:Uttar Pradesh |
