This book brings together a collection of chapters that investigate sustainable tourism development in different Asian contexts; from stakeholders’ perspectives, existing issues in the market, as well as the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism. It highlights the importance of tourism sustainability in Asia.
Three decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russia has transformed from a fringe player to a resurgent great power in Africa. This book presents a chronological examination of Russia’s post-Cold War foreign policy towards Africa, and outlines the factors that have enabled and impeded the growth of its influence. It pays special attention to the non-material factors behind this rising power.
This book wants to start the process of talking by finding who is to blame for the political and economic problems of the country and suggesting how to solve them. It still tackles Zimbabwe, even as it tackles life in exile, especially for those Zimbabweans who left for South Africa; what they had to deal with, especially the xenophobia of year 2008.
The Gran Chaco, a global hotspot of deforestation and biodiversity loss, faces the dual challenge of expanding area-based conservation while helping to transition to more sustainable natural resource use in order to maintain traditional livelihoods.
Illegal trade network patterns may be explained by geographic, economic and environmental factors, and may change over time. Rosewood is one of the most valuable taxa in the illegal and unregulated wildlife trade, and we focus on its trade in the Greater Mekong Region.
As a single island measuring only 21 square kilometers, Nauru faces the challenge of developing new drivers of growth amid significant resource constraints. The Government of Nauru’s income derives mainly from a regional processing center for asylum seekers and revenues from selling fishing licenses.
This brief explores how new satellite imagery technology can help predict the impact of tropical cyclones in climate vulnerable countries such as Fiji, analyze their potential compounding effects, and improve disaster risk management.
The present report is an urgent appeal to practitioners at every level, both public and private, and across sectors, to come together to champion integrated water storage solutions—natural, built, and hybrid—to meet a range of human, economic, and environmental needs for the 21st century.
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, land is a scarce and valuable resource. The projected increase in land demand due to demographic trends, coupled with decreasing land supply due to climatic and governance factors, indicate a looming crisis happening at a time when the region is also facing dramatic social and political transformation.
Cities and urban leaders play a critical role to help ensure countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase climate resilience and enhance adaptive capacity to achieve the global 1.5⁰C target.
Population ageing is a defining global trend of our time. People are living longer, and more are older than ever before. This change brings both challenges and opportunities as countries strive to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Against the backdrop of COVID-19, world output growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3% in 2022 to 1.9% in 2023, marking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades.
Poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services threatens population health and contributes to gender and social inequalities, especially in low-resource settings.
This paper investigates the long-term (2070–2099) potential impacts of climate change on global food trade networks of three key crops: wheat, rice and maize. The authors propose a simple network model to project how climate change impacts on crop yields may be translated into changes in trade.
This report presents a sustainability assessment method that can identify strengths and weaknesses of different sanitation systems across the sanitation service chain, in the context of Montero, Bolivia.
Achieving climate targets will require a rapid transition to clean energy. However, renewable energy (RE) firms face financial, policy, and economic barriers to mobilizing sufficient investment in low-carbon technologies, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
In Africa, the energy transition is interlinked with complex energy access challenges. It has emphasized the need to draw attention to the productive sector as an engine for change.
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused Fiji’s economy to contract by 15.2% in 2020 and an estimated 4.1% in 2021. Prospects for recovery in 2022 have improved with the reopening of borders in December 2021.
To assure financial and environmental sustainability for Indonesia's power sector, this report proposes restructuring PLN, the country's State Electricity Corporation, and details innovative reforms for stronger governance and regulation.
This report shows how smart trade and investment policies, and regulatory cooperation in the Asia and Pacific region can help economies tackle climate change, recover from the pandemic, and support resilient and sustainable development.
