Smart Grid Integrated Vehicles: Innovation to Enhance Energy Security, Environmental Sustainability, and Community Resilience Read more about Smart Grid Integrated Vehicles: Innovation to Enhance Energy Security, Environmental Sustainability, and Community Resilience Asia’s developing countries continue to face challenges in meeting energy security, environmental sustainability, and community resilience. The smart grid integrated vehicle concept, according to the presentation, is an option to be considered that can possibly help cover incremental costs and serve multiple core purposes.
Waste Management and Resource Recovery in Victoria Read more about Waste Management and Resource Recovery in Victoria This presentation introduces Sustainability Victoria (SV), the lead Victorian government agency for waste management and resource recovery strategy, planning, and program delivery in Australia. It discusses Getting Full Value: The Victorian Waste and Resource Recovery Policy. The key responsibilities of SV to deliver "getting full value" are also explained.
Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation: An Action Agenda Read more about Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation: An Action Agenda While the need to revitalize Asia's irrigation to support food security in a context of regional economic transition is recognized, the task remains complex. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, together with a number of regional and global partners and with these countries, have launched a regional initiative to revitalize irrigation and agricultural water management.
Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation: An Action Agenda Read more about Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation: An Action Agenda While the need to revitalize Asia's irrigation to support food security in a context of regional economic transition is recognized, the task remains complex. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, together with a number of regional and global partners and with these countries, have launched a regional initiative to revitalize irrigation and agricultural water management.
Are Urban Water Tariff Structures Designed to Meet Local Challenges and Policy Goals? Read more about Are Urban Water Tariff Structures Designed to Meet Local Challenges and Policy Goals? Water and wastewater tariff structures may not always be designed to meet local priorities. The cities of Singapore, Jakarta, and Manila, are used as case examples to study the challenges faced by each city, and the appropriate pricing recommendations to consider based on the local context.
Making Intelligent Decisions and Mapping Environmental Sustainability Read more about Making Intelligent Decisions and Mapping Environmental Sustainability With ever increasing urbanization comes the challenge of analyzing environmental impact and managing it in a sustainable way. Many of the cities across Asia are struggling with urban sprawl. As they mature, and as data becomes more available, it becomes critical to consider being more predictive in planning, decisive in actions, and frugal with resources.
Arnaud Heckmann Keywords Urban Development economic and urban development climate change adaptation and mitigation environmental sustainability green urban-rural development Read more about Arnaud Heckmann Arnaud Heckmann is the Country Operation Head at the Asian Development Bank’s Nepal Resident Mission. He was formerly Principal Urban Development Specialist at ADB’s East Asia Urban and Social Sectors Division. He has extensive experience designing, processing, and administering integrated economic and urban development projects and technical assistance promoting transformative approaches, inclusive and green livable cities, climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental sustainability, and green urban-rural development.