Toolkit of Measures for Managing Environmental Externalities in Urban Areas
Cities depend on a healthy natural environment that continuously provides a range of services or benefits to society and the economy. Managing the urban environment is, however, a complex task. Many urban cities in Africa are struggling to meet the...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/620771495784433118/Toolkit-of-measures-for-managing-environmental-externalities-in-urban-areas http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26764 |
| Summary: | Cities depend on a healthy natural
environment that continuously provides a range of services
or benefits to society and the economy. Managing the urban
environment is, however, a complex task. Many urban cities
in Africa are struggling to meet their infrastructure needs;
maintain or provide adequate service delivery; and upgrade
city systems to keep pace with the rate of change,
urbanization, and population growth. Identifying what
investment is required in urban areas to enable economic
activity, and to create livable and vibrant cities in an
environmentally sustainable way is the key challenge for
decision makers, but also presents significant
opportunities. The purpose of this toolkit is to provide an
overview of a selected sample of generic policy measures and
instruments that specifically address the challenges raised
by ‘greening’ urban development. It focuses on instruments
that may be able to help leverage finance (from private
sector, national government and donors) to address the range
of environmental problems faced by cities in developing
countries, including low quality housing, poor access to
services, pollution and safety hazards, and to support the
implementation of green urban development measures.The
toolkit is intended primarily as a resource for urban
managers and planners in African cities. As such, the
instruments that are included have been specifically
selected because they address some of the most pressing
environmental challenges faced by rapidly growing African
cities while at the same time contributing to the
achievement of wider sustainable development goals. The
toolkit complements a wide range of other guidelines and
manuals covering integrated urban environmental planning,
green city development and mainstreaming ecosystem services
into municipal functioning. These are valuable volumes in
themselves and the reader is encouraged to use these
alongside this toolkit. |
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