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Too Expensive to Ignore: The Real Story on Car Fuel Economy and Use
EMBARQ Fellow Emeritus Lee Schipper discusses fuel efficiency policies in the US, Europe, and Japan. As Americans and the world struggle with high oil prices and climate change, various policies to improve car fuel efficiency have been enacted, and more are being considered in both the United States and Europe. Yet review of recently available data on both on-road fuel economy and new car test fuel economy compiled from each country’s leading authorities shows that the US on-road fuel economy more...
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August 3, 2008
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Managing Asian Cities (Published: The Asian Development Bank – June 2008)
The challenge of urbanization in Asia is unprecedented — some 1.1 billion people will move
to cities in the next 20 years. Managing Asian Cities aims to provide a useful management
resource, canvassing key issues and pointing managers to appropriate responses to problems; and, second, provide the initial step in a new phase of ADB’s continuing support to Asian cities under its Strategy 2020.The study is organized in two parts. The first reviews the existing situation. The second pr more...
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>Managing Asian Cities: Asian Development Bank (ADB), 2008
>UNEP and UN-HABITAT Launch Publications extending “Local Action for Biodiversity”
>Approaches to Urban Slums: A Multimedia Sourcebook on Adaptive and Proactive Strategies
>The biggest city rush of all time
July 8, 2008
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Outside Ideas: Towards Carfree Cities Conference
Next time you find yourself wincing at the gas pump, don't pine for a price break, or even  a fuel-sipping hybrid or electric car. Instead, imagine a city where you  didn’t need to drive at all.. Skyrocketing fuel prices are compelling more and more Americans to change their lifestyles, from relatively simple steps like taking the bus, to more comprehensive
overhauls like staying at home from work or even moving to a new home. In Portland, this June, the Towards Carfee Cities more...
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> Towards Carfree Cities 8 – Portland, Oregon
> Towards Carfree Cities Conference Series
> Resource Centre of World Carfree Network
June 24, 2008
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The World Association of Major Metropolises - Bank of Cities
Photograph , courtesy Metropolis.

The accelerated urban development of the last few decades proves the importance of the role  of local authorities next to States in providing basic infrastructure and essential services  which are indispensable for local development. Nevertheless, a growing number of local  authorities lack the sufficient financial resources to make these investments. They need to  find external financial resources under satisfactory conditions.For several years now, Metropolis, The World A more...
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> Metropolis is the World Association of Major Metropolises
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June 9, 2008
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A Tale of Two Cities: The Asphalt and the Favela
“The first favela came from the head of a pig. In 1898, the Rio de Janeiro city government  decided to demolish a tenement called Cabeça do Porco (Pig’s Head) that housed over one  thousand people in the center of city. One quarter of the city’s population at that time lived in tenements- and the Pig’s Head tenement represented the unclean and unwanted. The dislocated residents, mostly dock workers, occupied a nearby hill and built new homes from the rubb more...
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>Sebastiana "Tiana" Rosaria Jesus Souza (From Favela Faces)
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>Paulo "Paulinho" Cerqueira (From Favela Faces)
May 1, 2008
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History of Earth Day, April 22 and the Earth Day Network
Earth Day, April 22, each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest "to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda."

At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and slu more...
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>South Africa: Joburg Observes World Earth Day 2008
April 23, 2008
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EMBARQ
Established in May 2002, with the support of the Shell Foundation, EMBARQ - The World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport - acts as a catalyst for socially, financially, and environmentally sound solutions to the problems of urban mobility. Working with politically and financially empowered authorities at local and global levels, EMBARQ can dramatically reduce the costs, risk, time, and complexity required to diagnose key transport p more...
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>Rapid Bus Transit System, Istanbul – EMBARQ
April 2, 2008
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Public Awareness in Sustainable Transportation Promotion - by Carlos F. Pardo and Thirayoot Limanond.
Public awareness is a fundamental for any successful sustainable transport initiative. People have thoughts, feelings and habits that are sometimes contrary to the prerequisites of a sustainable transport system, however this is somewhat easy to solve if proper steps are taken. Some of them are briefly outlined in this article, and further explained in the Public Awareness Module from the SUTP sourcebook. 

An initial question regardi more...
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March 17, 2008
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The Cities Alliance - City Development Strategies (CDS)
A rapidly increasing share of the world's population is living in cities. In the next 15 years the population of many cities in Asia and Africa will nearly double. In order to confront the challenges posed by this unprecedented rate of urban growth and increasing urban poverty, cities need to plan ahead in order to make more informed choices about the future and they need to act now. A city development strategy supports cities in this critical decisi more...
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>Scaling up Community-driven Development Process in Phnom Penh
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>Report for the Ground Breaking Launch of the Slum Dwellers Pilot Housing Project in Kisenyi III
>City Development Strategies – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
March 4, 2008
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Gender and Water Issues in the MDGs
The Gender and Water Alliance was formed in March 2000 at the 2nd World Water Forum in The Hague. The Alliance was formed by 110 organisations and individuals from around the world in response to the Ministerial Declaration of The Hague on Water Security for the 21st Century.

The Declaration recognised the link between integrated water resources management and poverty alleviation and urged that “special attention should be paid to t more...
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>Gender Equality Results in the Punjab Community Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project - Pakistan
>The Gender Approach to Water Management
February 21, 2008
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