India’s IT hub Bengaluru may need $US339 million to fix drainage, avoid flooding – report
Bengalaru, IndiaReuters India’s Bengaluru city may need nearly 28 billion rupees ($US339 million) to restore a drainage network damaged by unfettered urbanisation as repeated floods threaten to disrupt work and life in the IT hub, a report said. Traffic moves through a water-logged road following torrential rains in Bengaluru, India, on 5th September, 2022. PICTURE: […]
Essay: Japan is paying families a million yen to move to the countryside – but it won’t make Tokyo any smaller
In an article first published on The Conversation, PETER MATANLE, a senior lecturer in Japanese studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK, looks at the latest Japanese efforts to ease Tokyo’s overcrowding while revitalising rural areas…
Postcards: Climate shifts and rising demand leave Turkey battling growing water stress
JENNIFER HATTAM reports on how population growth, urbanisation, climate change and – critics say – poor water management are all straining Turkey’s water supplies…
CENTRAL AMERICA: FLEEING URBAN GANGS, PEOPLE HEAD TO THE COUNTRY
CHRISTINE MURRAY, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how hundreds of thousands of Hondurans and Salvadorans have been forced to abandon their homes in recent years due to gang violence…
URBAN FARMS: “MY HANDS ARE MY TRACTOR” – WHY GARDENS ARE TAKING ROOT IN JOHANNESBURG
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from South Africa on how urban farmers are helping the fight against hunger…
Cities are sucking our countryside dry, scientists say
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Expanding cities are sucking up ever more water, exacerbating the effect of climate change and threatening to create a “dusty and deserted” rural hinterland, scientists said on Thursday. An international team of researchers calculated that globally at least 16 billion cubic meters of water – almost the annual flow of the […]
Hunger stalks Asia’s booming cities – UN agencies
Thomson Reuters Foundation Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia’s rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, and will remain so without “inclusive, sustainable and nutrition-sensitive” urban planning, United Nations officials said on Friday. The Asia-Pacific region has the world’s highest rate of urbanisation, while also being home to more than half the world’s 821 […]
ESSAY: BUSINESS AS USUAL? THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS APPLY TO AUSTRALIAN CITIES TOO
In an article first published on The Conversation, WENDY STEELE, LAUREN RICKARDS and LIBBY PORTER, of Melbourne’s RMIT University, say that addressing the Sustainable Development Goals must involve looking within Australia as well as overseas…