New Urban Agenda in Asia-Pacific

Part I: New Urban Agenda in Asia-Pacific: An Overview.- New Urban Agenda in Asia-Pacific: Governance for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities.- Part II: Urban Planning and Policy.- Integrating Urban-Rural Development (IURD) through Governance Programmes in China's Megacities: The Suzhou Model.- Urban Policies in Neo-Liberal India.- The Changing Role of Regional Organisation of Councils in Australia: Case Studies from Perth Metropolitan Region.- Issues in Urban Planning and Policy: The Case Study of Lahore, Pakistan.- Urban Governance Challenges and Reforms in Indonesia: Towards a New Urban Agenda.- Part III: Innovations in Service Delivery and Access for Social Inclusion.- Financing Local Infrastructure and Public Services: Case of Shaxi Town in Suburban Suzhou, China.- Urban Governance in Australia: A Case Study of Brisbane City.- Urban Service Delivery and Access: The Special Case of Brunei Darussalam.- Comprehensive Management for Better Rural Infrastructure and Service Delivery: Lessons from the Implementation of China's Six Point Rural Action Plan in Guizhou Province.- The Political Economy of Urban Governance in Asian Cities: Delivering Water, Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Services.- From Exclusion to Inclusion: The Understanding, Capacity, and Will to Change Local Government Practices.- Part IV: Emerging Trends and Future Trajectories.- Towards Inclusive Urban Governance and Planning: Emerging Trends and Future Trajectories.

An award-winning urbanist, Dr. Bharat Dahiya combines research, policy analysis and development practice aimed at examining and tackling socio-economic, environmental and governance issues in the global urban context. Since early-1990s, Bharat's research and professional work has focused on sustainable cities and urbanization, strategic urban planning and development, sustainable and inclusive cities, urban environment and resilience, and urban governance. Working with the World Bank, UN-Habitat, the Asian Development Bank, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), and UNDP, he provided policy advice and technical support to national and local governments. Moreover, working with these international agencies, he initiated, led and contributed to international projects on sustainable urban development in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Whilst working on operational projects on sustainable urban development, Bharat contributedto knowledge generation, especially through meta research and review of policies, programmes and projects. At the World Bank headquarters, he conducted the first-ever systematic review of the Bank's investments for improving urban liveability, published as a co-authored book, Urban Environment and Infrastructure: Toward Livable Cities (World Bank, 2004; ISBN 978-0821357965). he conceptualized and coordinated the preparation of United Nations' first-ever report on The State of Asian Cities 2010/11 (UN-Habitat and UN-ESCAP, 2010; ISBN 978-9211322743). More recently, he co-authored Partnering for Sustainable Development: Guidelines for Multi-stakeholder Partnerships to Implement the 2030 Agenda in Asia and the Pacific (UNU-IAS and UN-ESCAP, 2018; ISBN 978-92-808-4585-3). Bharat is co-editor of New Urban Agenda for Asia-Pacific: Governance for Sustainable and Inclusive Cities (forthcoming, Springer).

 

Bharat serves on the editorial boards ofCities: The