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| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Ranking the Liveability of the World's Major Cities Khee Giap Tan, 2012 This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city. The book posits that the degree of liveability depends on five themes: satisfaction with the freedom from want; satisfaction with the state of the natural environment and its management; satisfaction with freedom from fear; satisfaction with the socio-cultural conditions; and satisfaction with public governance. The authors attempt to be more constructive through performing policy simulations by first identifying relative weaknesses and strengths of 64 global cities across major continents including European, Asian, Middle Eastern, North and South American cities. The book also ranks and simulates 36 Asian cities separately, of which many are emerging third-world cities that are in need of policy guidance. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Global Liveable And Smart Cities Index: Ranking Analysis, Simulation And Policy Evaluation Khee Giap Tan, Tao Oei Lim, Yanjiang Zhang, Isaac Yang En Tan, 2019-11-15 A rising proportion of the global population are moving to cities in search of a better standard of living. However, although urbanisation has its benefits, unchecked urbanisation can lead to a host of challenges, such as congestion and limited access to public services. As such, the concept of urban liveability has been garnering more attention from policymakers and academics who are interested in mitigating the negative effects of urbanisation.In this context, the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) has released the 2018 Global Liveable and Smart Cities Index (GLSCI), the third in its series of liveability indices. The GLSCI attempts to measure the liveability of an average resident in a city. More importantly, this year's edition has added considerations to the concept of smart cities and the role that these technologies can play in augmenting the liveability of a city's residents. It also builds on ACI's past liveability indices by expanding the number of cities in the index to 78, notably with African cities for the first time. In addition, this book includes two case studies on liveability. The first one concerns the relationship between a city's liveability, smartness, connectivity, and agglomeration, while the other is a case study on the 99-year lease of public housing in Singapore. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Rethinking Smart Cities Zaheer Allam, Yusra Raisah Takun, 2022-12-06 This innovative book explores the foundations of the smart city and, through a critique of its challenges and concerns, showcases how to redefine the concept for increased sustainability, liveability and resilience in urban areas. It undertakes a review of the smart city concept, providing a new perspective on how technology-based urban solutions must be centred around human dimensions to render more liveable urban fabrics. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: The Future of Liveable Cities Luigi Fusco Girard, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, 2024-01-20 This book explores the concept of livable cities, where people enjoy living and being, and examines indicators of citizens' well-being in relation to the urban environment. It is authored by experts from diverse disciplines, providing a citizen-centered perspective on urban well-being in sustainable, environmentally friendly, and climate-neutral (or -positive) cities. The contributions focus on the human and social aspects of cities, developing operational models and frameworks for circular cities, smart resource utilization, and examining contextual factors such as environmental and neighborhood quality, energy transition, climate neutrality, and recycling as factors that influence the well-being of homo urbanus.” The chapters approach these topics from various analytical perspectives, including conceptual/theoretical, methodological/modeling, policy/planning, and evidence-based case studies. This book will be of interest to scholars in regional and spatial science, urban geography, economics, and related fields, as well as those interested in urban well-being. |
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| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Livable Cities from a Global Perspective Roger W. Caves, Fritz Wagner, 2018-05-11 Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability. They address the fundamental question, what is considered livable? The journey each city has taken or is currently taking is unique and context specific. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to livability. Some cities have had a long history of developing livability policies and programs that focus on equity, economic, and environmental concerns, while other cities are relatively new to the game. In some areas, government has taken the lead while in other areas, grassroots activism has been the impetus for livability policies and programs. The challenge facing our cities is not simply developing a livability program. We must continually monitor and readjust policies and programs to meet the livability needs of all people. The case studies investigate livability issues in such cities as Austin, Texas; Helsinki, Finland; London, United Kingdom; Warsaw, Poland; Tehran, Iran; Salt Lake City, United States; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sydney, Australia; and Cape Town, South Africa. The chapters are organized into such themes as livability in capital city regions, livability and growth and development, livability and equity concerns, livability and metrics, and creating livability. Each chapter provides unique insights into how a specific area has responded to calls for livable cities. In doing so, the book adds to the existing literature in the field of livable cities and provides policy makers and other organizations with information and alternative strategies that have been developed and implemented in an effort to become a livable city. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Blue-Green Infrastructure Across Asian Countries Shalini Dhyani, Mrittika Basu, Harini Santhanam, Rajarshi Dasgupta, 2022-03-24 This edited book discusses Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) from conception to implementation in building resilience and urban sustainability. The book emphasizes on infrastructures, institutions, and perceptions as three main pillars of implementing and managing successful BGI, with a special focus on Asia. The book highlights concepts as well as field-based experiences from different parts of Asia by experts, with a special focus on advances and opportunities in advancing BGI, challenges and constraints, followed by case studies on BGI mainstreaming. It addresses sustainable water management, multiscale environmental design, environmental risk assessment, and finally understanding policy implications and concerns for BGI mainstreaming in growing urban sprawls of the region. There has been growing global momentum and recognition of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) as a multifunctional Nature-based Solution (NbS) with multiple co-benefits. There is strong evidence from many urban centres of Europe, USA, China, and South Africa demonstrating that mainstreaming BGI can help in addressing growing vulnerability of urban areas by ensuring safety, resilience, and sustainability for urban residents in the warming world. This book is a timely contribution for researchers, students, scholars, urban planners, consultants, and policy makers in the fields of environment, resilience, urban planning, climate adaptation, and sustainability science. |
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| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Sustainable and Smart Spatial Planning in Africa Charles Chavunduka, Walter Timo De Vries, Pamela Duran Diaz, 2022-04-24 This book clarifies the smart city concept that is gaining application in Sub – Saharan Africa. It shows how the smart concept can be used to address problems that would be difficult and more expensive to solve using traditional techniques such as employment creation. This is done through elaboration of the African interpretation of smartness, using tools for smart solid waste management, e-governance, smart energy, and smart infrastructure. The case studies selected, and each chapter explain a different dimension of the smart city concept and offer innovative solutions to problems of rapid urbanization. It lays the theoretical foundation for further research on smart cities and rural areas in Africa. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Ethical Cities Brendan F.D. Barrett, Ralph Horne, John Fien, 2020-12-06 Combining elements of sustainable and resilient cities agendas, together with those from social justice studies, and incorporating concerns about good governance, transparency and accountability, the book presents a coherent conceptual framework for the ethical city, in which to embed existing and new activities within cities so as to guide local action. The authors’ observations are derived from city-specific surveys and urban case studies. These reveal how progressive cities are promoting a diverse range of ethically informed approaches to urbanism, such as community wealth building, basic income initiatives, participatory budgeting and citizen assemblies. The text argues that the ethical city is a logical next step for critical urbanism in the era of late capitalism, characterised by divisive politics, burgeoning inequality, widespread technology-induced disruptions to every aspect of modern life and existential threats posed by climate change, sustainability imperatives and pandemics. Engaging with their communities in meaningful ways and promoting positive transformative change, ethical cities are well placed to deliver liveable and sustainable places for all, rather than only for wealthy elites. Likewise, the aftermath of shocks such as the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic reveals that cities that are not purposeful in addressing inequalities, social problems, unsustainability and corruption face deepening difficulties. Readers from across physical and social sciences, humanities and arts, as well as across policy, business and civil society, will find that the application of ethical principles is key to the pursuit of socially inclusive urban futures and the potential for cities and their communities to emerge from or, at least, ameliorate a diverse range of local, national and global challenges. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Human Settlements Giuseppe T. Cirella, 2021-09-08 The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture. Human settlements are historically linked to resource availability, fortification, and the mythos of civilizations. Cities play a central role in redefining the interface between human beings and nature. They have revolutionized the human experience by taming natural surroundings and building environments that are human-centric—often narrowing human life outside the experience of wilderness or the untamed. This book is divided into three parts, it examines urban development trends, explores perspectives in energy efficiency and agriculture security, and considers policy development and future scenarios in human-nature relations. It is a compendium of multidisciplinary work that challenges the directions of modernity and offers reference to alternatives. Authors come from a diverse background and international context to address common overarching theories facing current geography-specific problems. An interconnected overtone of the book attempts to link accelerated urbanization and settlement location to how societies are maintained and integrated. Human settlements are shaped by human ecology and the relationship between humans and their interaction with their environment. Two sectors central to human survival are specifically explored: energy and agriculture. Cutting-edge, smart development looks at the latest findings that reflect the on-going debate facing these sectors. A human settlement metric is envisioned in terms of the past, present, and future. This book is a unique attempt to combine a rethinking about human settlements for scientists, policy-makers, public officials, and people committed to improving urban life, society-wide. Possible agents to resolving human settlement problems include international cooperation and various mechanisms that interlace the international community. Methodological and applied aspects of sustainable management focus on topics such as adaptive knowledge sharing, renewable energy, climate change, agricultural planning, and policy development. An emphasis on scientific and technological advancement, from a bottom-up mapping of society, elucidates a better understanding of the role of knowledgeable societies in which need is considered alongside how such need can be sustained—advancing towards a more promising future. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: EXCELLENCE IN METRO OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT SHARMA, SHARAT, JAIN, AMIT KUMAR, DEVENDRA, SANKALP, 2022-12-19 The challenges in metro operations keep the operations managers on their toes to continually explore innovative ways to resolve the day-to-day issues and keep the organization sustainable. In absence of any precedence, often solutions are tried ab initio. The book presents comprehensive coverage of various operational issues such as running of trains, customer-centric timetabling, management of stations, depot, control center, crew, collection of fare and non-fare revenue, maintenance of assets, human resources management, integrated transport, driverless trains, adoption of AI/ML/IoT, and predictive maintenance. The book is designed for transport professionals engaged in management of urban transportation services. It will also be very useful for students undertaking courses on Urban Transport and Railway Systems. KEY FEATURES • Innovative O&M practices based on real-life experiences—case studies and examples included • Emerging technologies in metro operations such as Driverless Operations, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and Predictive Maintenance • Excel program to estimate human resources required to operate the metro rail system commensurate with the facilities created • List of data and KPIs required to monitor the performance of a metro rail system TARGET AUDIENCE • Transport Professionals engaged in Metro and Railway Operations and Planning • Students undertaking courses on Urban Transport and Railway Systems |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: What the World Might Look Like Susie O’Brien, 2024-05-14 The idea of resilience is everywhere these days, offering a framework for thriving in volatile times. Dominant resilience stories share an attachment to a mythologized past thought to hold clues for navigating a future that is understood to be full of danger. These stories also uphold values of settler colonialism and white supremacy. What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience thinking has come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models of thought. The book traces settler-colonial resilience stories to the rise of resilience science in the 1970s and 1980s, illustrating how the discipline supports the projects of white supremacy and colonialism. Working to unravel the blanket of common sense that shrouds the idea of resilience, the book is equally cautious of settler-colonial antiresilience stories that invoke the idea of death as an antidote to unbearable life. Susie O’Brien argues that, although the dominant narratives of resilience are problematic, resilience itself is neither inherently good nor inherently bad. Appreciating the significance of resilience stories requires asking what worlds and what communities they are meant to preserve. Looking at the fiction of Alexis Wright, David Chariandy, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, O’Brien points to the potential of Black and Indigenous thinking around resilience to figure decolonial possibilities for planetary flourishing. Exposing the complexities and limits of resilience, What the World Might Look Like questions the concept of resilience, highlighting how Black and Indigenous novelists can offer different decolonial ways of thinking about and with resilience to imagine things “otherwise.” |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Disha 365 Current Affairs Analysis Vol. 1 for UPSC IAS/ IPS Prelim & Main Exams 2020 Ashish Malik, 2020-04-02 Table of Contents Unit 1 - Polity & governance – topics 1 to 54 Unit 2 – reports & indexes - topics 55 to 88 Unit 3 – schemes, bills & acts - topics 89 to 136 Unit 4 - social justice - topics 137 to 148 Unit 5 - international developments - topics 149 to 191 Unit 6 - Prelim snippets Prelims snippets for quick revision exclusively to boost your score IAS Prelim full length practice tests 1 & 2 with explanations IAS main full length practice tests 1 & 2 with explanations. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Building an Innovation Hotspot Alicia Cameron, 2022-06-01 How can you increase innovation at local levels and build new technology hotspots? Building an Innovation Hotspot outlines the approaches governments, communities and industry have used to stimulate innovation and examines the evidence behind them. It also identifies real-world examples where these approaches have worked and where they have failed. As future industries will be built on new technologies – particularly digital technologies – the final chapters of this book consider how artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented and virtual reality, and 3D printing might change not just where innovation occurs, but innovation itself. Stimulating innovation will be key to addressing our future needs in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic and in tackling the all-pervasive impacts of climate change. This is an essential book for anyone looking to build their local economy and compete in a more globalised world connected by the next wave of digital technology. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: The Changing Space Economy of City-Regions Koech Cheruiyot, 2017-10-30 This book addresses the South African Space Economy and its stark disparities and dualisms through an assessment of the Gauteng City-Region – the largest economic agglomeration in the country and on a continent bedevilled by a myriad of development challenges. The book’s focus on understanding the overall character of Gauteng City-Region’s Space Economy – through data mining/analysis and mapping – comprehensively supplements the Space Economy literature on the region. It covers the disparities exacerbated by an overlay of apartheid planning ideology and top-down regional development based on selective encouragement of manufacturing investments in growth points or poles and how implementation of past policies intended to cure these disparities have yielded mixed results. This book further offers the Gauteng City-Region as a microcosm of the national economy in the form of evident significant placed-based variations in the intensity and character of economic structure that on the one hand enjoys massive agglomeration economies, while on the other, has high levels of poverty and large numbers of people living below the Minimum Living Level. This book should appeal to urban studies specialists, economists and development studies researchers in the Global South. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Sustainable Cities Reimagined Stanislav E. Shmelev, 2019-10-22 To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, European and North American cities, cities of the Middle East and North Africa, cities of Central and South East Asia, a city state of Singapore and a large group of global cities. It applies a multi-criteria approach using a panel of environmental, economic, social and smart indicators to assess progress and policies in global cities including London, New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, São Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo and many others. Additional attention is given to the issues of climate change, poverty and smart dimensions, with renewable energy and the drivers of urban CO2 emissions playing the central role. This book is abundant with case studies considering strategies, policies and performance of the leading cities, including San Francisco, Stockholm and Seoul in greater depth, exploring how their successes can be used by other cities. The book identifies key linkages between different smart and sustainability dimensions as well as investment opportunities in cities with sustainability potential. This book will be of great interest to policy makers, city and regional authorities as well as scholars and students of urban planning and sustainable development aiming to facilitate a sustainability transition in our cities around the world. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: The Race to the Future: 8,000 Miles to Paris - The Adventure That Accelerated the Twentieth Century Kassia St. Clair, 2024-05-14 The rise of the automobile as told through its Rubicon moment—a sensational, high-risk race across two continents on the verge of revolution. The racers—an Italian prince and his chauffeur, a French racing driver, a con man, and several rival journalists—battle over steep inclines, through narrow mountain passages, and across the arid Gobi Desert. Competitors endure torrential rain and choking dust. There are barely any roads, and petrol is almost impossible to find. A global audience of millions follows each twist and turn, devouring reports telegraphed from the course. More than its many adventures, the Peking-to-Paris Motor Challenge took place on the precipice of a new world. As the twentieth century dawned, imperial regimes in China and Russia were crumbling, paving the way for the rise of communist ones. The electric telegraph was rapidly transforming modern communication, and with it, the news media, commerce, and politics. Suspended between the old and the new, the Peking-to-Paris, as best-selling historian Kassia St. Clair writes, became a critical tipping point. A gripping, immersive narrative of the race, The Race to the Future sets the drivers’ derring-do (and occasional cheating) against the backdrop of a larger geopolitical and technological race to the future. Interweaving events from the fall of the Qing dynasty to the departure of the horse economy and the rise of gendered marketing, St. Clair shows how the Peking-to-Paris provided an impetus for profound social, cultural, and industrial change, while masterfully capturing the mounting tensions between nations and empires—all building up to the cataclysmic event that changed everything: the First World War. “Consistently mind-boggling, often funny, and occasionally hair-raising” (Philip Ball), The Race to the Future is the incredible true story of the quest against the odds that propelled us along the road to modernity. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: The Political Economy of City Branding Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko, 2014-02-24 Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms of capital, entrepreneurship, information, expertise and consumption. This competition takes place in an asymmetric field, with cities trying to find the best possible ways of using their natural and created assets, the latter including a naturally evolving reputation or consciously developed competitive identity or brand. The Political Economy of City Branding discusses this phenomenon from the perspective of numerous post-industrial cities in North America, Europe, East Asia and Australasia. Special attention is given to local economic development policy and industrial profiling, and global city rankings are used to provide empirical evidence for cities’ characteristics and positions in the global urban hierarchy. On top of this, social and urban challenges such as creative class struggle are also discussed. The core message of the book is that cities should apply the tools of city branding in their industrial promotion and specialization, but at the same time take into account the special nature of their urban communities and be open and inclusive in their brand policies in order to ensure optimal results. This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working in the areas of local economic development, urban planning, public management, and branding. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: GREEN HORIZONS Romain Pison, 2023-07-21 Romain Pison navigates the rapidly evolving landscapes of Asia’s cities, unveiling their transformative strides in sustainable transport amidst our climate crisis. This book is more than a collection of observations; it is a deeply personal journey through a region undergoing tremendous change, told with the rich insight of first-hand experience. Romain Pison's exploration is a tapestry of urban planning strategies, innovative technologies, and political leadership that Asian cities are deploying to combat climate challenges. By narrating his experiences across various cities, he paints a vibrant picture of how they are revolutionizing urban mobility in response to our changing climate. Green Horizons is not just a testament to Asia's urban resilience but a practical guidebook, providing real-world roadmaps to a sustainable, climate-resilient future. A must-read for policymakers and urban enthusiasts seeking insight into the nexus of urban planning, climate change, and sustainable transport solutions. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Smart City Assessment Azzam Abu-Rayash, 2024-08-13 Smart City Assessment: A Novel Framework for Development and Evaluation of Smart Cities outlines a new assessment model for smart cities, including energy, environmental, and economic factors. It introduces a new paradigm to the understanding of smart cities by defining it using eight main domains, each domain using four specific performance indicators. This book defines a smart city as one with a smart environment, smart economy, smart society, smart culture, smart governance, smart energy, smart infrastructure, smart transportation, and one that is resilient to pandemics and global emergencies. This book begins by outlining these basic elements of a smart city, from sustainability to transportation networks. It then proposes a framework for evaluation, before analyzing both technological and socioeconomic factors in more detail. Central to the reader's understanding are the wide range of detailed case studies based on real-world cities, analyzing their smart-ness and demonstrating the application of a Smart City Index ranking based on the assessment criteria. The application of this novel and comprehensive methodology is applied on 20 cities worldwide and trends, relationships between indicators and domains are assessed to better understand the dynamic connections in this composite network of indicators. Providing the theoretical background as well as the practical assessment tools necessary, this book offers a timely discussion of the criteria and development for smart, sustainable urban living. - Offers a grounding in the fundamentals of smart city design and criteria, from environmental standards to energy needs for transport and infrastructure - Provides a brand-new model for assessing cities according to a Smart City Index, identifying gaps in sustainability and infrastructure - Illustrates the use of this assessment through multiple detailed real-world examples, including discussion of potential weightings - Discusses the impact of governance and policy on moving forwards |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Current Affairs MINDMAP JUNE 2023 (MIND MAP) (COLOURFUL) for UPSC/ IAS / STATE PCS, EPFO,CDS,NDA,NET-JRF,RAILWAY ETC. EXAM Team Arora IAS, Index Economy (Page No- 1 to 22) 1. Lightweight Payments System 2. National Electricity Plan 2022-32 3. Lithium Industry 4. Salt Cavern-based Oil Storage Facility 5. Accidents in Indian Railways 6. Bima Vahaks 7. Shanan power project 8. Antardrishti (Financial Inclusion) 9. Pulses Production in India 10. Scheme for “Exploration of Coal and Lignite” 11. World Food Programme 12. First Loss Default Guarantee (FLDG) 13. Disinflation 14. Decrease in Punjab’s cotton cultivation 15. Limits on UPI transactions 16. Urban Co-operative Banks 17. Minimum Support Prices (MSP) 18. Status of Remittances: World Bank 19. Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters 20. GOI Unveils Critical Mineral List 21. Seven products from UP get GI Tag 22. CHAMPIONS 2.0 Portal 23. Inflation & Greedflation 24. India-US WTO Dispute 25. One District One Product (ODOP) 26. Coal India Ltd (CIL) under ambit of Competition Commission of India 27. National Bank for Financing Infrastructure & Development (NaBFID) International Relationship (Page No- 23 to 37) 1. Nepal PM Visit to India 2. Helmand River Dispute 3. Akhand Bharat 4. Atlantic declaration 5. India and Serbia 6. US-India Defence Relations 7. India-U.S. Strategic Trade Dialogue (IUSSTD) 8. EU's Asylum Policy 9. US to rejoin United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) 10. India - United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework 11. Wagner Group 12. China-Pakistan Nuclear Deal 13. Egypt's Highest State Honour to PM Modi 14. The Atlantic Declaration 15. Artemis Accords 16. Outcomes of PM Modi's visit to USA 17. L-20 summit(G20 Engagement Groups) 18. Chashma-V nuclear Plant Environment (Page No- 38 to 45) 1. Carbon Offsetting 2. MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative for Shoreline Habitats and Tangible Incomes) 3. India's first carbon neutral Village 4. Fish kill’ phenomenon at USA’s Texas 5. Titan tragedy: Lessons for India’s Deep Ocean Mission 6. Himalayan Brown Bears 7. New ELL Discovered 8. Wolf- Dog Hybridisation / Indian Wolf 9. UTPRERAK 10. Zambia’s Kafue National Park (KNP) Science & Tech. (Page No- 46 to 63) 1. KAVACH 2. Evapotranspiration 3. How Genome Sequences tracked down an Ancient Disease? 4. Use of AI against Superbugs 5. Rare Higgs Boson Decay 6. Vision Pro: Apple’s First Spatial Computer 7. X-rays 8. Transgenic crops in India 9. The Hiroshima AI Process 10. Svalbard Mission of 1997 11. Betelgeuse Star 12. 3D Digitisation of Museums 13. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Technology 14. Fibonacci Spirals 15. Cell-cultivated Chicken 16. Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulations (ART), 2023 17. Radio Telescopes: Probing Space 18. National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) 19. GEMCOVAC-OM Polity (Page No- 64 to 75) 1. Mekedatu Dam Project 2. Retain Sedition Law with Amendments: Law Commission 3. Khap Panchayat 4. Adverse Possession 5. Commission of Railway Safety (CRS) 6. Kerala Fibre Optical Network (KFON) 7. Gauhati HC quashed Nagaland govt’s notification banning dog meat’s sale 8. Tamil Nadu revokes general consent for CBI 9. Cow Slaughter Ban 10. High court’s observations on the right to change one’s name 11. NCBC Approves Addition Of 80 More Castes To Central List Of OBCs 12. Meira Paibis 13. National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) 14. Kalasa Banduri Project 15. One Nation One Helpline Initiative Defence (Page No- 76 to 80) 1. Agni-1 2. Exercise Air Defender 23 3. Anti-submarine Warfare Ship 'Anjadip' 4. Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) 5. India-U.S. deal for 31 MQ-9B Drones 6. Liberalisation of Export Policy for Drones 7. Yuri Olefirenko 8. Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) Art and culture (Page No- 81 to 84) 1. Pre- Mauryan Era Finds in Purana Qila 2. Janjatiya Khel Mahotsav 3. Vadnagar 4. Prime Ministers Museum and Library 5. Char Dham Yatra 6. Kharchi Puja 7. International Day of Yoga Geography (Page No- 85 to 91) 1. Cyclone’s effect on Monsoon Onset 2. El Niño 3. Cyclone Biparjoy 4. ‘Landfall’ of a cyclone 5. Indian Ocean Dipole 6. Flash Floods Health (Page No- 92 to 98) 1. Mandatory Tobacco related Warning for OTT Platforms 2. 5th State Food Safety index (SFSI) 2022-23 3. Antarashtriya Yoga Diwas Media Samman. 4. World Blood Donor Day 5. Captagon Pills 6. Non-communicable Diseases in India 7. Joha Rice 8. Cord Blood Banking 9. Psychiatric Care Govt. Scheme (Page No- 99 to 104) 1. Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) 2. Youth Co:Lab 3. ‘Sagar Samajik Sahayyog’ 4. Open Market Sale Scheme (Domestic) 5. NANDI Portal 6. Har Ghar Jal Programme 7. CITIIS 2.0 8. Amrit Dharohar Yojana 9. E Sewa Kendras 10. Anna Bhagya 2.0 scheme Education (Page No- 105 to 106) 1. 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| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Economic Uncertainty in the Post-Pandemic Era Shilpa Deo, Fatma Feyza Gündüz, 2024-12-05 The global economy has experienced many challenges in recent times, particularly in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as dwindling demand, supply chain disruptions, declining growth rates, further pandemic waves, and increasing poverty and inequality to name but a few. Four years after the pandemic, economies are still struggling to achieve sustainable economic growth and development. While much has been written about the impact of COVID-19 on various sectors and economies, this is the first book to underscore the post-COVID global uncertainties that are still occurring on the world stage and further, to present the recent challenges such as geo-political tensions, war, economic disturbances, climate change, the energy crisis in Europe, recession in developed economies and its effect on developing and least developed economies. The book starts by setting the grounds for further discussion of the present challenges as well as future implications. In addition to examining the immediate issues which occurred with the onset of the pandemic, it explores these from the perspective of developed, developing, and least developed countries. The wide-ranging topics covered by the book include the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War, China’s increasing economic dominance in neighbouring countries, the economic collapse of Sri Lanka and Pakistan, the factors that led to the technology layoffs and the future of global employees and economies. The book goes beyond looking at sector-specific factors and broadly outlines country-specific instabilities, policy choices and the way forward. The book will be of interest to students of macroeconomics, development and international economics, and international relations as well as researchers and policymakers. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Light Footprint Management Charles-Edouard Bouée, 2014-01-02 Introducing a pioneering road-map for adaptable, post-strategic business organisations that places vision and tactics over strategy. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Governing Cities Madeleine Pill, 2021-06-21 In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This textbook introduces ideas, theories, concepts and examples to help us understand the political and policy challenges of governing cities, centred on the principal challenge of how to make our cities more equitable. It poses critical questions – about how cities are governed, by whom, according to what values, and for whom – and draws from a wide range of urban scholarship. The ‘how’ covers urban politics and the policy instruments which result. The ‘by whom’ addresses power relations within and beyond the city and the tensions between different priorities and values. The ‘for whom’ centres equity and the role of citizens and collective action in how we are governed. In addressing these questions, the book provides an overview of the core theories of urban politics and governance, thinks about what happens at different scales, and examines new forms of citizen activism which herald alternatives for cities. It is a unique introduction to students, policymakers and practitioners who want to understand and seek to improve urban politics and policy. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities Basant Maheshwari, Ramesh Purohit, Hector Malano, Vijay P. Singh, Priyanie Amerasinghe, 2014-05-27 The population of cities around the world is growing at an alarming rate, and as a result the landscapes of most cities are going through enormous changes. In particular, fertile agricultural lands at the periphery of cities are being developed without consideration of holistic planning. As such, peri-urban areas, zones of transition from rural to urban land uses located between the outer limits of the urban and the rural environment are experiencing significant losses of agricultural land, increased runoff, and water quality degradation. Concurrently, the demands for water, food and energy are increasing within cities, and unless a balance is struck the liveability of these cities will soon be compromised. The current water and land use changes have serious consequences on lifestyle, environment, health and overall well-being of urban communities. This book therefore helps readers to understand the current issues and challenges and examines suitable strategies and practices to cope with current and future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land-use changes. The book examines a number of critical aspects in relation to the future of cities and peri-urban regions, including the suitability of policies and institutions to sustain cities into the future; impact of current trends in land use change, population increase and water demand; long term planning needs and approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and strategies to adapt the cities and land uses so that they remain viable and liveable. The readership of the book will include policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning and environmental and water resources management and managers in municipal councils. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Sustainable City and Creativity Tüzin Baycan, 2016-04-01 The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity and contributing to the new creative economy - has become central to most regional and urban development strategies in recent years. A creative city is supposed to develop imaginative and innovative solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental problems: economic stagnancy, urban shrinkage, social segregation, global competition or more. Cities and regions around the world are trying to develop, facilitate or promote concentrations of creative, innovative and/or knowledge-intensive industries in order to become more competitive. These places are seeking new strategies to combine economic development with quality of place that will increase economic productivity and encourage growth. Against this increasing interest in creative cities, this volume offers a coherent set of articles on sustainable and creative cities, and addresses modern theories and concepts relating to research on sustainability and creativity. It analyses principles and practices of the creative city for the formulation of policies and recommendations towards the sustainable city. It brings together leading academics with different approaches from different disciplines to provide a comprehensive and holistic overview of creativity and sustainability of the city, linking research and practice. In doing so, it puts forward ideas about stimulating the production of an innovative knowledge for a creative and sustainable city, and transforming a specific knowledge into a general common knowledge, which suggests best future policy actions, decision-making processes and choices for the change towards a human sustainable development of the city. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Residential Real Estate Anupam Nanda, 2019-03-20 Residential Real Estate introduces readers to the economic fundamentals and emerging issues in housing markets. The book investigates housing market issues within local, regional, national and international contexts in order to provide students with an understanding of the economic principles that underpin residential property markets. Key topics covered include: Location choice in urban areas Housing supply and demand Housing finance and housing as an asset class Demographic shifts and implications for housing Sustainable homes and digitalisation in housing Drawing on market-level information, readers are encouraged to recognise the supply and demand drivers and modelling of dynamic housing markets at various spatial scales and the implications of trends within an urban and regional context, e.g. urbanisation, ageing population, migration, digitalisation. With research-based discussions and coverage of relevant literature, this is an ideal textbook for students of residential real estate, property and related business studies courses at UG and PG levels, as well as a reference book with research topics for researchers. This book will also be of interest to professionals and policymakers. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Sustainability Appraisal Barry Dalal-Clayton, Barry Sadler, 2014-03-26 Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to illustrate the status and scope of Sustainability Appraisal/Assessment (SA) This comprehensive guide highlights how SA can be used to analyse and integrate the key environmental, social and economic pillars of sustainability into decision-making at all levels, from policy to project to investment, by government, business and industry, or international organizations. Distilling both published and unpublished materials, and with contributions from a range of leading experts, organizations and agencies, this book will be of significant value to professionals everywhere who are in need of a solid, reference guide to what constitutes SA practice and, more importantly, how and when it can be applied. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Vienna Angus Robertson, 2021-10-07 Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge- building summits during the Cold War, it is the Austrian capital that has been the scene of key moments in European and world affairs. History has been shaped by scores of figures influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria Theresa, Count Metternich, Bertha von Suttner, Theodore Herzl, Gustav Mahler, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, John F. Kennedy and many others. In a city of great composers and thinkers it is here that both the most positive and destructive ideas of recent history have developed. From its time as the capital of an imperial superpower, through war, dissolution, dictatorship to democracy Vienna has reinvented itself and its relevance to the rest of the world. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Happiness, Wellbeing and Society Siok Kuan Tambyah, Soo Jiuan Tan, 2018-03-19 As Singapore continues to grow as a nation, the happiness and wellbeing of Singaporeans and what matters to them also change. This book conceptualizes and measures the cognitive and affective aspects of subjective wellbeing from multiple perspectives and relates these to important factors such as values, trust, democratic rights, views about politics and the role of the government. Through nationwide surveys using representative samples, including insights from the most recent 2016 Quality of Life (QOL) Survey, this book examines how happiness and subjective wellbeing have evolved over the past 20 years in Singapore. This book is an invaluable resource for those interested in how the study of happiness and wellbeing in Singapore connects with and contributes to the ongoing research and discourse on happiness and wellbeing around the world. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: A Research Agenda for Sustainable Cities and Communities Kes McCormick, James Evans, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Niki Frantzeskaki, 2023-08-14 Global in its outlook, this Research Agenda systematically reviews and critiques existing research on sustainable cities, calling for greater engagement with a diversity of perspectives. It interrogates foundational assumptions in the field and offers reframed perspectives on sustainability. Chapters also explore diverse approaches, actors and domains, locating emerging dynamics and new directions for practitioners. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: A Dive into the Big Economies Mashhood Raza Khan, 2022-04-09 How the political conditions lay the economic foundation of a country? How the discovery of oil can make a country have the richest royals, or the biggest hedge funds? How can tourism advance an economy at the base level and how it can be totally devastating at times? How laws of some country can make it the hotbed for the world's richest? How the deadliest monarch can give the status of high-end to its fashion-house? How did Hong Kong become the most capitalistic from a communist nation? How can China be communist and the world's biggest economy at the same time? How can a tiny country in the Middle-East surrounded by its violent enemies be the tech hub of Asia? How can India be a global superpower? How UAE is shifting from oil-based country to tourism and tech-based country? This book answers a lot more than just these questions. This book does not just contain huge mathematical equations or complex graphs, but analysis of an economy through history, geopolitics, law, and the political order of that country. It contains the concept of economics from the basics through analysis of an economy in its simplest and most intuitive form. |
| economic intelligence unit global liveability index: Strategies for Sustainable Transformation of Developing Countries Mark Izevbekhai, 2015-12-11 Strategies for the Sustainable Transformation of Developing Countries attempts a holistic-solution approach through sustainable development concepts and principles to address challenges in developing countries. In fact, the book is the application of sustainable development, and thus it offers strategies that could be applied to the development and transformation of social, economical, and environmental dimensions of society using the example of Nigeria, a developing country in West Africa. The book is divided into five parts, coveringcritical subjects of development which include education, government and good governance, community security, leadership, and community development. It provides answers to how sustainable development can bring change and benefits to these subject matters within the context of developing countries, using Nigeria as an example. This book is very different from many other book written on the challenges of development, particularly on African countries, in the sense that it gives priority to solutions and mapping them out in a feasible, sustainable, and practical way. The cornerstone of the book is the emphatic suggestion of a national transition initiative programme and Sustainable Community development Programme to drive sustainable development from the top and the bottom of society respectively. |
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