Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres
Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres

Author: Un-Habitat

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 113656120X

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Half of the world's people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. Taking on the themes of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities (2003), this new volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and sanitation where most of the populations of the developing world live: in towns and small cities. Drawing on extensive unpublished research and 15 commissioned papers from experts involved in designing and implementing innovative projects around the world, this is the first major study of the problems facing the smaller urban centres that are recognized to be of enormous importance by governments, international agencies, NGOs and service providers. Tackling these problems is a crucial part of development and of good governance, and critical to meeting the Millennium Development Goals. The volume will be essential reading for all professionals and researchers in the relevant fields and a valuable resource for teachers and students of urban development.

SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region
SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region

Author: Walter Leal Filho

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-08-31

Total Pages: 1692

ISBN-13: 3031160177

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​This volume provides an overview of the ways sustainable development issues as a whole, and the SDGs in particular, are perceived and practiced in a variety of countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. It also discusses the extent to which its many socio-economic problems hinder progresses towards the pursuit of a sustainable future, and documents successful experiences from across the region. This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".

Water Privatisation
Water Privatisation

Author: Jeremy Allouche

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2001-10-18

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0203302486

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Setting the scene with a thorough introduction to water resource issues, Water Privatisation critically examines the new role played by Trans-National Corporations in managing and distributing water worldwide.Written from an organisational and institutional perspective, the authors propose new structures of water management at local, national and i