Water
Infrastructure for Irrigation
Life begins with clean water and access to this most precious commodity is more important than ever to the billions of people across Asia and the Pacific. Quality infrastructure can bring lasting relief to struggling communities as this page shows.
Recommended elearning:
Management of Water Resources-- Self study about the sustainability of water resources, and the fundamentals of water supply and sanitation, water governance, and climate proofing.
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Measuring Water Use with Remote Sensing
(Asian Development Bank, 2017-05-30)
Remote sensing technology is a powerful tool that revolutionizes understanding of basin water resources. Water accounting—knowing how much water is available and who is using how much—is critical at a time when Asia is facing increasing water insecurity. ...
Water Management through the Lenses of Gender, Ethnicity and Class: A Comparative Case Study of Upstream and Downstream Sites on the Mekong River in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2017-02-03)
Issues related to water resources upstream (Tan Ho Co commune) and downstream (Dai An commune) of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam were studied. The role of gender, ethnicity and class in water management was ascertained. Social qualitative research, using ...
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CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 3: Roadside Hazard Management
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-04-15)Single vehicle “run-of-road” crashes are a significant problem on CAREC roads. They are particularly severe and can occur anywhere and at any time. Identifying, investigating, and treating roadside hazards are significant road safety challenges along ... -
Solid Waste Management in India: An Assessment of Resource Recovery and Environmental Impact
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-04-15)This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management in Indian cities. It presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid waste, its changing composition, the continuing practice of mixing ... -
Supporting Indian Farmers: Price Support or Direct Income/Investment Support?
(Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2018-04-15)With increasing farm distress in the wake of falling farm prices in 2017, the State Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) came out with an innovative scheme called Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana (BBY), a price deficiency payment (PDP) scheme, to support farmers. ... -
CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 2: Safer Road Works
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-03-30)This manual explains how to provide safer road worksites on CAREC roads. It explains good practices for roadwork sites, offering clear and simple guidance for CAREC road authorities to use to improve road safety at these sites for road users and workers ... -
Land Measurement Bias: Comparisons from Global Positioning System, Self-Reports, and Satellite Data
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-03-30)Agricultural statistics derived from remote sensing data have been used primarily to compare land use information and changes over time. Nonclassical measurement error from farmer self-reports has been well documented in the survey design literature ... -
In-Kind Transfer and Child Development: Evidence from Subsidized Rice Program in Indonesia
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-03-30)In the aftermath of the Asian financial crises, the Indonesian government launched a subsidized rice program called RASKIN in 1998 to moderate the shocks of food price inflation and reduced employment to poor households. The program has been continued ... -
Measuring Rice Yield from Space: The Case of Thai Binh Province, Vietnam
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-03-30)Despite a growing interest in using satellite data to estimate paddy rice yield in Southeast Asia, significant cloud coverage has led to a scarcity of usable optical data for such analysis. In this paper, we study the feasibility of using two alternative ... -
Financing Infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific: Capturing Impacts and New Sources
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2018-03-30)This major book from ADBI Press aims to provide the latest scientific evidence on infrastructure investment, including new ideas as to how to finance infrastructure. The editors believe the 500-page book will make an important contribution to help Asia ... -
Building Capacity for Geo-Enabling Health Information Systems: Supporting Equitable Health Services and Well-Being For ALL
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-02-28)Universal health coverage (UHC)—equitable access to quality health services without undue financial hardship—is the stated aim of almost every country in Asia and the Pacific. The effective management and use of geospatial data and technologies (GST, ... -
Mongolia: Transport Sector Fact Sheet
(Asian Development Bank, 2018-01-30)The underdeveloped road network in Mongolia has substantially constrained the country’s access to external markets and economic opportunities. This constraint has been particularly severe for the landlocked country, which is highly dependent on external ...