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Partnerships for the Sustainable Development of Cities in the APEC Region
Florian Steinberg
Over the past three decades, cities in the Asia-Pacific region have experienced unprecedented economic growth and development. Until the global financial crisis in 2007, it seemed that nothing could slow their development. The global financial crisis and the slowdown of the Chinese economy, however, has had a profound impact: the region’s cities face a range of challenges related to slower investment growth and job creation, and an increasing shortage of housing and basic services. Factors such as climate change, security issues, and increasing disparities between personal and regional wealth, development, and quality of life are also having a big impact on shaping the agenda for the future development and management of cities in the region. The pressures since the global financial crisis have given rise to a period of reflection and debate by governments and communities about the sustainability of urbanization and economic development of cities in the region. Fresh approaches are needed to the way cities are managed and developed to ensure their future prosperity, quality of life and the sustainable use of resources. This calls for governments and cities to work more cooperatively and collaboratively in fostering the development of partnerships for urban governance, trade, investment, services delivery, and human capital development, and for resolving environmental problems. This is central to APEC’s agenda for sustainable urbanization and the development of cities in the region. Partnerships involving collaboration is a new business model for development as we move towards a more sharing global economy. Such partnerships are not just local; they involve governments, business and communities working together to overcome common problems and issues and to improve service delivery. The new model of partnership involves various levels of government collaborating domestically and internationally through networks, alliances and associations to address the complex sets of problems that are common to many cities, and to foster the expansion of knowledge, trade, investment and other exchanges that benefit the development of communities, and especially wealth creation and jobs. This book explores the ways cities in the region are supporting partnerships for sustainable development. It builds on previous APEC work on sustainable urbanization, using 14 case studies to assess economies, infrastructure, social and environmental systems and urban governance. The case studies evaluate cities at secondary city, metropolitan region, and regional economic trade-corridor levels. The book will contribute to existing knowledge on ideas and practices that can help build more sustainable cities and economies in the region. It will be of interest to community leaders, administrators, business, and academics. The lessons outlined will have relevance for governments, other public policy organizations and business, for infrastructure investment, and for managing structural and technological change, the development of human capital and fostering improvements in the quality of life. These lessons provide the basis for an action agenda under APEC’s Asia-Pacific Partnership on urbanization and sustainable cities development.
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Shaping the Future through an Asia-Pacific Partnership for Urbanization and Sustainable City Development
Brian H Roberts
APEC member economies recognize that the management of urbanization and sustainable city development are crucial to the future prosperity of the region. The region’s cities, though prosperous, face significant development and management challenges. Many of these will be difficult and take time to solve. Creative, collaborative, and innovative solutions are needed for cities, along with new policies and strategies to improve the management of urbanization to make them better places for people to live, invest, and do business. APEC member economies can, through partnerships, play a supporting role in making cities more sustainable. This study presents arguments and a rationale for APEC member economies to engage in an Asia-Pacific partnership to shape the future of urbanization and sustainable city development. It discusses the challenges, policies, issues, and changes facing the development and management of cities. Drawing on research on five cities and four urban corridors, the study outlines important lessons from the ways cities are addressing urbanization and sustainable development issues. It discusses the role played by innovation in identifying solutions to address the problems of cities. These findings should be incorporated into partnership arrangements that APEC could engage in for shaping urbanization and the future sustainable development of cities. This study outlines a framework for an Asia-Pacific partnership to shape the future of urbanization and sustainable city development in the region, and provides recommendations for consideration by member economies.
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Sustainable Urbanization in Asia and Latin America
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Building sustainability in an urbanizing World : a partnership report
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Eco 2 Cities Ecological Cities as Economic Cities
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Strategy Paper on Sustainable and Inclusive Urbanization in Asia Pacific
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This UNDP Strategy Paper on Sustainable and Inclusive Urbanization in Asia Pacific was written to support national and local partners including governments and local communities to achieve inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities. In this regards, the Paper provides a strategic framework that will assist countries in formulating and implementing a specific national strategy focusing on cities as urban system and interconnection of different sectors in order to advance the cross-sectoral collaborations at the national and sub-national levels. It provides a common goal and broad guidelines which can be applied to the specific national context. The strategy is being applied widely through UNDP country programs, with several important initiatives being developed in countries of the region. The future prospects for cities in Asia Pacific will be determined by the management of three closely interrelated aspects of their sustainability: (i) economic sustainability -‐ the ability of cities to attract profitable businesses and grow as centres of production -‐ to attract investment, create jobs, facilitate efficient communications and linkages, and enable continuing improvements in productivity and standards of living; (ii) environmental sustainability -‐ the ability of cities to provide resilient habitat – shelter, safe water, air quality, waste management, energy efficiencies, climate change adaptation and mitigation measures -‐ necessary for healthy, productive, satisfying lives for their citizens now and into the future; and (iii) social sustainability -‐ the ability of cities to provide a safe, vibrant community where the opportunities and benefits of economic growth are equitably shared, broad community views are incorporated in decision-‐making, community leaders are accountable, laws are applied impartially and which is inclusive of women, marginalized, vulnerable and diverse ethnic and religious groups. Cities must create opportunities and vertically bridge different sectors of the population, enabling individuals and groups to interact, thereby strengthening social cohesion.
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ASEAN CITY-REGIONS: THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW URBAN AGENDA
Dr. AZMIZAM ABDUL RASHID
UN-Habitat, 2018
Rapid growth is set to change the face of cities across the Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, opening up new economic opportunities as the urban middle class swells. By 2050, the United Nations expects that two-thirds of the world population will live in cities. Urbanisation will therefore be a major trend shaping societies and economies across the world for the decades to come, especially in Asia and Africa which are both latecomers in terms of urbanisation. ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) Blueprint 2025 is the commitment to lift the quality of life of its peoples through cooperative activities that are people-oriented, people-centred, environmentally friendly, and geared towards the promotion of sustainable development to face new and emerging challenges in ASEAN. This region believes that the successful implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2030 Agenda) will require all countries to harness the positive force of sustainable urbanisation. As more and more of the world's population move to urban centres, cities play a critical role in sustainable development. In this regard, ASEAN welcomes the New Urban Agenda adopted at Habitat III. The New Urban Agenda reaffirms our global commitment to sustainable urban development as a critical step for realising sustainable development in an integrated and coordinated manner at all levels, with the participation of all relevant actors. The ASCC is committed to opening a world of opportunities to collectively deliver and fully realise human development, resiliency and sustainable development through Member States' cooperation on a wide range of area, including: culture and information, education, youth and sports, health, social welfare and development, women and gender, rights of the women and children, labour, civil service, rural development and poverty eradication, environment, trans boundary haze-pollution, disaster management and humanitarian assistance.
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