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  1. Library Resource
    Videos
    July, 2021
    Ethiopia

    This summary provides an overvew of LIFTs impact study on how tenure security translates into increased investments, productivity, and incomes. It presents evidence on the impact of secondary level land certification (SLLC) on rural farmers in Ethiopia.

    This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme. For more information, please check: https://landportal.org/community/projects/land-investment-transformation...

  2. Library Resource
    Institutional & promotional materials
    Videos
    Videos
    September, 2019
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    Fiona Littlejohn - Oficial de Asuntos Ambientales de la División de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) habla sobre el ODS 11. El acelerado crecimiento urbano enfatiza la necesidad de crear ciudades y asentamientos humanos seguros, inclusivos, eficientes y sostenibles. Se hace énfasis en el logro de sistemas de transporte sostenibles e inclusivos, debido a la alta tasa de motorización que se registra en la región, lo que conlleva problemas de movilidad, seguridad y ambientales.

  3. Library Resource

    Conferencia de las Ciudades: Implementando la Nueva Agenda Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe

    Conference Papers & Reports
    Multimedia
    October, 2017
    Latin America and the Caribbean

    La Conferencia de las Ciudades se celebró del 2 al 6 de octubre de 2017 en la sede de la CEPAL en Santiago de Chile.

    La Conferencia fue co-organizada por la CEPAL, MINURVI y ONU-Habitat.

    La reunión se realizó un año después de Hábitat III y se enfocó en la implementación de la Nueva Agenda Urbana en América Latina y el Caribe para ciudades inclusivas, seguras, resilientes y sostenibles.

  4. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2017
    Latvia, Lithuania

    This research study explores urban planning for transport sustainability in two cities Kaunas (Lithuania) and Jelgava (Latvia). As part of the analyses, a transport sustainability was compared in relation to three main aspects – economy, environment and society. The aim of this research is to review the existing transport system in two cities – Kaunas and Jelgava, and to evaluate their sustainability in environmental, social and economic dimensions. The study is based on the information about configuration and location of the existing transport system in two cities – Kaunas and Jelgava.

  5. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2016
    Latvia, Lithuania

    The article presents the comparative analysis of the Kaunas city anthropogenic landscape change during the period between 2006 and 2014. For this analysis the land fund statistics of the Republic of Lithuania were used. The components of anthropogenic landscape change are graphically shown in the figures. During the analysis the Kaunas city statistics were compared with the data of Kaunas County and the Republic of Lithuania. Comparative, analytical as well as statistical and logical analysis methods were used for the investigation.

  6. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2017
    Latvia, Ukraine

    Land as a production factor occupies a special position in the economic activities of the urban population. Land resources in big cities are not only territorial basis for placing industrial and production structures, but also a space for urban life in general. However, to assess the effectiveness of urban land use, primarily the ecological and economic potential of the use of the urban land resources should be determined aimed at sustainable development of urban agglomerations (Volodchenkov, 2010).

  7. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2016
    India

    This is an inderactive portal to help citizrns of Bangalore check if their residence falls on a storm waterdrain. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has notified properties with survey numbers that are encroaching on BBMP website. Our portal makes it easy to access these documents and give a summary view.


  8. Library Resource
    Global Urban Lectures: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights cover image
    Training Resources & Tools
    Multimedia
    July, 2017
    Global

    Geoffrey Payne outlines five fundamental propositions that are key to his understanding of tenure issues and policy options.

    These are:

    1) That access to affordable land with adequate security of tenure and associated rights is a pre-condition for realising the goal of adequate housing and poverty reduction;

  9. Library Resource
    UN-Habitat - SDG 11.3 Sustainable urbanization cover image
    Multimedia
    June, 2017
    Global

    A defining feature of many of the world’s cities is an outward expansion far beyond formal administrative boundaries, largely propelled by the use of the automobile, poor urban and regional planning and land speculation. A large proportion of cities both from developed and developing countries have high consuming suburban expansion patterns which often extend to even further peripheries. Cities need to accommodate new and thriving urban functions such as transportation routes, etc. as they expand.

  10. Library Resource
    UN-Habitat - SDG 11.7 Public space cover image
    Multimedia
    June, 2017
    Global

    Cities function in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner only when private and public spaces work in a symbiotic relation to enhance each other. Public space generates equality, however in the past decades it has been drastically been reduced. Inadequate, poorly designed, or privatized public spaces generate exclusion and marginalization.

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