This edition covers the following topics:

• Buildings, Climate Change and Cities;
  
• Ecuador: Eco-Materials for Low Cost and Sustainable building;
  
• World Green Building Council;
  
• Builders Kick-Start...

La Estrategia de Apoyo a la Gestión Urbano Ambiental de Arequipa fue iniciada por la Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa a principios del 2003 y finalizó su segunda fase en enero del 2007. Ha sido apoyada por PNUMA y UN-Habitat, organismos que ju...

In Zambia the Sustainable Cities Programme was implemented in Lusaka from 1994-2001 to address high levels of poverty and inequality experienced in the city resulting from a shrinking economy as the co...

The Sustainable Cities Programme was first implemented in 1996 in Shenyang and Wuhan, in China. From this initial experience, the environmental Planning and Management methodology was integrated in urban management to address pressing environmenta...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Ushering a new era of urban Planning and Management
• Urban Environment Strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Philippines: Strengthening institutional capacity to adapt to C...

Decision makers in local government face the ongoing challenge of how to provide services to the residents with limited resources. Whether drilling a new well to provide drinking water, renewing a road surface, buying new buses or issuing drivin...