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Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Urban Regeneration : Capturing Lessons and Experience from Japan with a Focus on Kyoto
World Bank Group - 2018
The World Bank Group (WBG) has long recognized that the restoration and preservationof cultural heritage, urban regeneration, and sustainable tourism can play a vital role in developing countries' efforts to promote local economic development, accelerate social integration, and alleviate...
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Melaka Sustainability Outlook Diagnostic : Overview Report - Pathway to Urban Sustainability
World Bank Group - 2019
Melaka State, situated roughly halfway between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, has unique importance in the global dialogue … the two largest countries by population, China and India. Melaka has taken significant steps toward realizing a more …
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Sustainable Urban Transport for Kyiv : Towards a Sustainable and Competitive City Built Upon the Legacy System and Innovations
World Bank Group - 2016
This report presents the scope and findings of the Economic Sector Work on Sustainable Urban Transport for the City of Kyiv, financed jointly by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF). The analysis consists of a rigorous...
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Promoting Green Urban Development in African Cities : Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Urban Environmental Profile
World Bank Group - 2016
The city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has undergone a period of unprecedented urbanization that has contributed to the degradation of the city's natural environment. With a growth rate above or near 5% for the past three decades, it is the fastest growing city in East Africa. The arrival of...
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Promoting Green Urban Development in African Cities : Kampala, Uganda, Urban Environmental Profile
World Bank Group - 2015
The city of Kampala has undergone a period of rapid urbanization that has contributed to the degradation of the city's natural environment. The urban environmental profile for Kampala has been prepared as the first component of the assignment promoting green urban development in Africa:...
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Sustainable Cities : Urban Areas and Climate Change in Sierra Leone
World Bank Group - 2023
Sierra Leone is highly vulnerable to natural hazards whose impacts are exacerbated by unplanned rapid urbanization. The main victims of climate change risks and impacts in urban Sierra Leone are the urban poor who also bear the brunt of multiple crises such as Ebola and Coronavirus Disease...
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Global Lessons Learned for Urban Resilience and Regeneration Projects : Informing Turkey's Urban Transformation Process
World Bank Group - 2021
Over the last decade, turkey has initiated several regulatory and institutional reforms to better mitigate and reduce disaster risks, with a focus on seismic risk. The Squatter (Gecekondu) Law No. 775 (1966) was the first regulatory effort to produce housing for low-income groups in Turkey, and...
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Pollution Management and the Making of Prosperous Cities
World Bank Group - 2020
The work summarized in this report fills a knowledge gap by contributing to an improved understanding of the links between competitiveness and pollution. Specifically, it argues that pollution need not be an inevitable consequence of development. Indeed, there are examples of cities that have...
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China Economic Update, June 2021 : Beyond the Recovery - Charting a Green and Inclusive Growth Path
World Bank Group - 2021
China's recovery has broadened as economic activity has continued to normalize. Economic growth in China is projected … returns to trend growth. As China's recovery firms up, macroeconomic policies are expected to shift from accommodative to more … strength of the recovery in China and the rest of the world. Rising financial vulnerabilities, together with subdued …
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Water in Circular Economy and Resilience : The Case of Lingyuan City, China
World Bank Group - 2021
Lingyuan City in Liaoning Province, China, is a county level city with a population of around six hundred fifty … focuses on the experiences of Lingyuan City in China …
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