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.
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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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Frames: News, Thoughts, Updates: May 2019
(Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, 2019-05-30)Frames is a monthly newsletter produced by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia. Each edition covers news, thoughts and updates involving ASEAN and East Asia. -
Japanese Infrastructure Investment in Southeast Asia
(S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, 2019-05-15)This paper analyses the outlook for Japan’s infrastructure investment in Southeast Asia as the region has become the primary destination for Japan’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in recent years. Section 2 reviews how the construction industry in ... -
A Station Location Identification Model for an Integrated Interoperable High-Speed Rail System
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)Integrated interoperable rail systems facilitate high speed rail (HSR) train movement on conventional intercity lines, and vice versa. Hence, for such rail systems, it is preferred that HSR stations are located at existing intercity rail stations. ... -
Modeling the Spatiotemporal Urban Spillover Effect of High-Speed Rail Infrastructure Development
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)The study introduces and applies the concept of spillover effects to high-speed rail development to formulate the economic impact on increasing the regional tax revenue. The previous study covered JR-Kyushu’s development of the Kyushu Shinkansen ... -
Transit-Oriented Development Policies and Station Area Development in Asian Cities
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)Many metropolitan cities in Asia are planning and implementing extensive investment in mass transit networks and thus are now on the threshold of becoming transit cities or car traffic saturation cities. The promotion of transit-oriented development ... -
Speed and Socioeconomic Development: Influence of Indian Railways
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)Indian Railways is a little over a century and a half old. Its development over the decades has been gradual. It has been and continues to be the “lifeline for the socioeconomic growth of India,” by connecting human settlements across the country and ... -
Travel and Land-Use Impacts of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)Mumbai is the financial capital of India, where the commuter share of suburban rail and city bus systems is greater than 70%. With only one metro line, 11.4 kilometers (km) long (Versova–Andheri–Ghatkopar), being operational at present, a large network ... -
How High-Speed Rail Affects Local Land Prices: Evidence from Taipei,China
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)This paper evaluates the effect of high-speed rail (THSR) on the land prices of targeted regions (THSR regions) in Taipei,China using prefectural-level data from 1993 to 2017. The construction of THSR started in 2000 and was finished in 2006. The THSR ... -
Optimization of High-Speed Railway Station Location Selection Based on Accessibility and Environmental Impact
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)High speed railway (HSR) planners aim to select locations that optimize the overall utility or benefit of HSR stations by satisfying various desirable requirements. Among other factors, accessibility and environmental impact are important considerations ... -
Messages for Railway Systems Based on 30 Years' Experience of Japanese National Railway Privatization
(Asian Development Bank Institute, 2019-05-15)The paper provides information for railway systems based on 30 years’ experience of Japanese railway privatization. First, we introduce the background, framework, and result of the Japanese National Railway reform, especially from the perspective of ...