Case studies and best practices
This monograph entitled “Asian Innovations in Financing Sustainable Urban Development ” is an initial attempt to document and share with the Asian cities and local governments, a range of initiatives – BEST PRACTICES – that local governments in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, and the Philippines have taken to improve their habitat and to address challenges such as environment protection, infrastructure rehabilitation, flood risks, city’s resilience to climate change, energy-saving, local level capacities, participation, transparency and enhancing resource mobilization.
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Over the past 20 years disasters have affected 4.4 billion people, caused USD 2 trillion of damage and killed 1.3 million people. Disasters have affected people living in developing countries and, in...
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For the past year, Stanford’s Sustainable Urban Systems Initiative (SUS) within the School of Engineering has been working with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and a variety of lo...
