The World Bank conducts rigorous research on climate change to guide its operational strategies and offer better advice to member countries. An important aspect of this research agenda is its focus on adaptation to climate change – an issue that has received increasing attention since Kyoto. For most United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) parties with relatively low emissions, adaptation is the critical challenge in framing policies that respond to climate change.
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'22 May 2008: The renaissance of the city is a hot topic in Europe. But what does the term renaissance mean? Generally it designates the renaissance of the inner city, the complex, mixed used inner city. The term renaissance is often applied to the city center only. Is such a perception appropriate? Does it mean that suburbanization is in decline? I assume that European cities have turned into urban regions, which will change drastically in the future.'
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'Are you happy? provides a thumbnail guide to the history of new economics and the current work of the new economics foundation. It asks the biggest question facing humanity - do good lives have to cost the earth? - and finds that the answer lies in a new type of economics, economics as if people and the planet mattered.'
This is a New Economics Foundation's (nef's) paper, published in November 2006. PDF format, 31 pp. In English
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'Much attention has been focused on rural areas, yet the contribution post offices make to urban areas has been overlooked. In fact, post offices in urban areas have borne the brunt of recent closures. The last post provides new evidence of the vital social and economic role of urban sub post offices. The report says that they play a particularly valuable role in deprived urban areas, and outlines the new threats that they now face from changes to the post office network.'
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'Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) first came to prominence in the UK around ten years ago as means of providing loans to people and enterprises excluded from mainstream finance.
The report, Reconsidering UK community development finance, released the 2007 annual conference of the Community Development Finance Association - the umbrella body for CDFIs - finds that the future of CDFIs is uncertain as government and policy-makers have begun to question whether CDFIs have meas more...
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'Focusing on the experience of St Helens metropolitan borough on Merseyside, our research suggests that the methods used by policy makers to measure the success of Local Economic Growth Initiatives (LEGIs) , although an improvement on what went before, are still inadequate. A more sophisticated approach is needed for the shortcomings of successive regeneration programmes to be understood and overcome.
Prior to LEGI, the evaluations attached to regeneration programmes tended to focus mainly on q more...
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New York, 27 February 2008: By the end of 2008, for the first time in history, half of the world's population will live in urban centers, according to a revised United Nations population study. The survey also predicts the world's urban population will almost double to 6.4 billion people by the year 2050. Most of the growth will be in cities with fewer than half a million people and not in mega cities like Tokyo, New York and Mexico City.
The report's findings imply that urban areas must be p more...
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