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Links Urban Community Development Office - Thailand:
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Environment and Urbanization: The journal Environment and Urbanization published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has the most detailed coverage of urban environmental problems in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Many of its issues can be accessed free at the above website address. Extracts from the latest issue of the journal are also available from http://www.iied.org/eandu
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Population and Urban Growth: Cities at the Forefront (JHUCCP): This excellent Population Report published by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Communication Programs explores the linkages between population growth and urbanisation. It contains excellent factual information on many different themes, including Megacities, Cities in the Developing World, Health and Polultion and the Environmental Impact of Cities.
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Asia Week: Asia's Best Cities 2000: Asiaweek has published a survey which polled 40 selected cities in Asia, including all the jajor capitals, looking at 23 indicators. The main factors on which cities are ranked are: economic opportunity, quality of education, environment and sanitation, health care, transportation, personal security, housing cost, and leisure.
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Avant-Gardening: Creative Organic Gardening: This US-based website provides a comprehensive guide to creative organic gardening, including composting, soil-building, permaculture and much more.
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Centre for Science and Environment: CSE in India produces publications with among the most detailed descriptions of the scale and range of urban (and rural) environmental problems. Their web page has many interesting articles and features.
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Cities Environment Reports on the Internet: Cities Environment Reports on the Internet acts as a gateway for information on the urban environment. The website includes reports from cities around the world, news, resources, activities and links.
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Earth Policy Institute: EPI rovides "a vision of what an environmentally sustainable economy - an eco-economy - will look like." Its website includes a Dataset of eco-economy indicators, publications, environmental updates and alerts.
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Earthscan Publications: Earthscan have many recent and new books on different aspects of urbanization and urban development and its web site allows some chapters to viewed free.
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Environmental Health Project: This organisation has many publications on water, sanitation, indoor air pollution and other aspects of environmental health, many of which are available electronically from its website.
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