Building Urban Resilience in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Case Study of Harare, Zimbabwe

The global framework set forth by the United Nations 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) include water resources in their scope, which emphasizes how water assets and society well-being are closely intertwined and how crucial they are to achieving sustainable development. This paper explores the role of hydropolitics in that Post-2015 Development Agenda and uses Brazilian hydropolitics set to reach SDG6 as a case study.

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Revelation of Wuhan City’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic on Urban Resilience Enhancement

Journal of Emergency Management and Disaster Communications ◽

10.1142/s2689980920400102 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 01 (01) ◽

pp. 59-72

Author(s):

Shengjie Pan ◽

Huey Wen Lim ◽

Na Xiao ◽

Tao Wang ◽

Dongping Fang

Keyword(s):

Emergency Management ◽

Social Impacts ◽

Management Process ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Wuhan City ◽

Depth Analysis ◽

The Future ◽

Economic And Social Impacts ◽

Emergency System

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant economic and social impacts worldwide and revealed the importance and urgency of urban resilience enhancement. To learn the lessons from this pandemic, this study undertook a case study in Wuhan City, which was the first city in China where the outbreak was declared, and analyzed the process of its response to the pandemic. Based on the theory of emergency management, this study identified four stages of the emergency management process and conducted an in-depth analysis of the experience gained at each stage from the perspective of urban resilience. Then, this study evaluated the level of urban resilience of Wuhan City, and put forward suggestions for enhancement of the emergency system of China. The findings provided important revelation for other cities to cope with major disasters in the future.

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Creating a New European Development Agenda

Concepts and Transformation ◽

10.1075/cat.4.1.02enn ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 11-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richard Ennals ◽

Bjørn Gustavsen

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

Collaborative Project ◽

Collaborative Advantage ◽

Development Agenda ◽

European Development ◽

National Governments

The article presents a new European collaborative project, building on experience of regional development coalitions across Europe. Globalization is complemented by regionalization, and the emergence of new structures between the levels of individual enterprises and national governments. Competitive collaborative advantage is to be derived from learning across cultures, celebrating differences rather than seeking uniformity. Particular case study accounts are given from Italy, Germany and Sweden, but the framework is offered for a broader project, with the theme of Europe as a Development Coalition.

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TOO WEAK TO INFLUENCE? A CASE STUDY OF THE LITHUANIAN NGDOs IN FOREIGN AID POLICY MAKING

Politologija ◽

10.15388/polit.2017.3.10858 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 87 (3) ◽

pp. 130

Author(s):

Marta Gadeikienė

Keyword(s):

Foreign Aid ◽

International Development ◽

Policy Change ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

The European Union ◽

Development Agenda ◽

Eu Project ◽

Aid Policy ◽

The Eu

For the East Central European Countries (ECE), the membership in the European Union also meant an entry into the foreign aid donor community. To understand the international development policy change in over a decade and a policy divergence among the ECE countries that have started from relatively similar situations, this article offers the case study of Lithuania and the analysis of domestic policy actors, namely the non-governmental development organizations (NGDOs) as one of the policy change facilitating factors. It provides an empirically-rich account of how Lithuanian NGDOs participate in the national foreign aid policymaking and explains factors that affect Lithuanian NGDOs’ capacity to influence government decisions. Szent-Ivanyi’s and Lightfoot’s theoretical model guided the analysis of the Lithuanian NGDOs umbrella organisations composition and power relations, their organizational capacities, foreign donor assistance and attitudes of the state actors. The article concludes the limited, yet increasing Lithuanian NGDOs’ role in shaping Lithuanian foreign aid policies, as undermined as they are by the chronic lack of resources to fund advocacy from national sources and the dependency on the EU project-based funding. Consequently, these circumstances constrain the NGDO Platforms’ focus mostly on the EU development agenda and therefore mimic the European NGO networks’ policy agenda. The lack of capacities among the NGDOs to adapt a European policy agenda to the national foreign aid policy reality makes it of limited relevance to the policy makers domestically.

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Study on the coupling relationship between urban resilience and urbanization quality—A case study of 14 cities of Liaoning Province in China

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0244024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. e0244024

Author(s):

Yanpeng Gao ◽

Wenjun Chen

Keyword(s):

Relative Length ◽

Liaoning Province ◽

Average Score ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Coupling Relationship ◽

Time Path ◽

The North ◽

Coordination Degree

In this paper, entropy, coupling coordination degree, spatial auto-analysis, LISA time path, and other methods have been used to analyze the coupling coordination degree of urban resilience and urbanization quality of 14 cities in Liaoning Province from 2009 to 2019. The results show that: 1. The number of highly resilient cities accounts for 14.3% of the total number of cities in Liaoning Province, and the overall resilience degree is low; the spatial distribution shrinks along the Shenyang–Dalian Economic Belt toward both sides, with obvious “core-margin” characteristics. 2. The average score of urbanization quality increased from 0.0574 to 0.0966, showing a fluctuating upward trend; the regional difference was significant, and the “dual-core” characteristic was prominent. 3. During the study period, the 14 cities of Liaoning Province were in a state of imbalance, and there was a positive correlation between the coupling degree and the coordination degree. Moran’s I decreased from 0.237 to 0.220 and the spatial agglomeration characteristics also weakened. Further analysis of the spatial and temporal linkage characteristics of the coupling relationship shows that the relative length of LISA time path presents characteristics of protrusion in the central region and shrinkage on the East and West sides, and the curvature presents characteristics that are smaller in the North and larger in the South.

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Teaching Rural Indonesian Schools Students: Effective Strategies

International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding ◽

10.18415/ijmmu.v5i2.333 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 231

Author(s):

Mia Febriana ◽

Joko Nurkamto ◽

Dewi Rochsantiningsih ◽

M. Rosyidi

Keyword(s):

Teaching Strategies ◽

Rural Areas ◽

National Development ◽

Effective Strategies ◽

Research Technology ◽

Narrative Case Study ◽

Development Agenda ◽

Depth Interview ◽

Teacher Education Graduates

“Building Indonesia from the periphery by strengthening the regions and villages within the framework of a unitary state” is the third agenda of Nawacita (Nine priorities of national development agenda). This commitment reflects the current Indonesian government's concerns that prioritize development in the disadvantaged, outermost, and frontier regions (3T). It is implemented in various programs, one of which is the SM-3T program enacted by the Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education of Indonesia. The SM-3T, which stands for Sarjana Mendidik di daerah Terdepan, Terluar, dan Tertinggal (Graduates Educating in the Disadvantaged, Outermost, and Frontier Regions), is a year program for teacher education graduates to teach in rural areas of Indonesia. This study aims to investigate teaching strategies used by SM-3T teachers in rural Indonesian schools. This research employs a narrative case study. The techniques of data collection comprise questionnaire and in-depth interview. This study can extend the existing knowledge about ELT in rural Indonesian schools, especially teaching strategies, and to improve teachers’ professionalism as they could experience conditions in rural Indonesian schools which are different from the conditions in urban schools.

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Usage of quotas in the state budget: A case study of Karnataka in India

Disability Studies Quarterly ◽

10.18061/dsq.v29i1.169 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Pradeep Kumar

Keyword(s):

Safety Net ◽

The State ◽

State Governments ◽

Font Size ◽

Poverty Eradication ◽

State Budget ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Development Agenda ◽

The Government

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">Persons with disabilities constitute nearly ten percent of the population of India, and the Persons with Disabilities Act of 1995 allocates 3% quota in all poverty alleviation programmes and schemes of the government. Though the system of quota has a legislative mandate to be used as a safety net, many studies have indicated that the state governments have failed in implementing the same in the case of people with disabilities. Karnataka has been one of the most progressive states in mainstreaming disability into the development agenda of the state, and through a democratic process of "participatory governance" it has ensured that the allocation of 3% quota is successfully implemented in all the poverty eradication programmes of the state.</span>

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