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Datos en la Planificación Urbana

Este curso analiza la importancia del uso de datos en la planificación urbana. También abordará la gestión de datos, la goberna...

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Deep Dive Projects Overview 2023

WRI Ross Center’s Deep Dive Cities Initiative focuses on locally driven strategic projects as entry points to foster long-term,...

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High Air Pollution Episode in Cities: Understanding through Data and Tools

The insights from the First Session of the Southeast Asia Air Quality Community of Practice, which focused on expert discussion...

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Air Quality Monitoring Equipment Workshop and Sharing Session (English Version)

The recording of this sharing session aims to inform the targeted audiences about strategies and technicalities to: 1) Tackle t...

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November 2023 WRI Network Project Updates

This content will share highlights of work being done across the WRI Country Offices. These highlights come from the November 2...

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Urban Areas for Better Air in Bogotá

The session aims to create synergy between the Southeast Asia Air Quality Community of Practice (SEA-CoP) and the Clean Air Cat...

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Recap | Second Stage: CanAIRy Alert Training

The CanAIRy Alert project, with support from the Clean Air Fund, held a “CanAIRy Alert Training: Tools for Air Quality Ma...

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Sete transformações para cidades mais equitativas e sustentáveis

O World Resources Institute (WRI) passou seis anos a investigar os desafios económicos, demográficos e de recursos e a forma co...

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Using Data in Urban Planning

This course discusses the importance of the use of data in urban planning. It will also address data management, governance, an...

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Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities

The World Resources Institute (WRI) spent six years investigating economic, demographic, and resource challenges and how t...

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Proposal Development

The objective of this learning guide is to ensure that all members of WRI Ross Center understand what the Proposal Development ...

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Overcoming Barriers to Financing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure [Draft Version]

This is the second of two guides in the Financing Sustainable Urban Development series. It covers investment barriers...

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Introduction to Communications at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

By the end of this guide, users will:

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An Introduction to Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

This learning guide provides an overview of research standards and processes for staff of WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Citie...

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Urban Forests for Healthier Cities: Policy, Planning, Regulations, and Institutional Arrangements

Main Question: What are some of the plans, policies, regulations, and institutional arrangements that cities can use to maintai...

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Social Equity Considerations for Cities’ Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

Purpose of this guide This guide is developed by Cities4Forests to direct cities toward positive, equitable, and inclusive fore...

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TOD & Road Safety / Session 4 / Financing & Implementing Road Safety in TOD

This session is the fourth and final session in a four-part workshop series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Tran...

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TOD & Road Safety / Session 2 / Assessing and Enabling Road Safety for TOD

This workshop is the second session in a four-part series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Transit-Oriented Devel...

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Discussion on Depot and Charging Management for Electric Buses

Ensuring daily operations, meeting growing passenger demands on quality and reducing costs – these are the challenges transport...

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EV Connect

New developments in electric mobility are often difficult to keep pace with. These are reported through multiple media channels...

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Electric Vehicle Safety: Thermal Runaway, Fire Characteristics & Suppression in Lithium-ion Batteries

In this month’s webinar, we will discuss the nature of thermal runaway and the variations observed with different factors...

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TOD & Road Safety / Session 3 / Planning and Designing Road Safety Measures in TOD

This session is the third in a four-part workshop series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Transit-Oriented D...

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TOD & Road Safety / Session 1

This workshop is first in a four-part series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Transit-Oriented Development (...

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Enabling Safe Access to Mass Transit (SAM) Toolkit

The Enabling Safe Access to Mass Transit (SAM) Toolkit is part of a suite of products, including the SAM Workshop, ba...

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Good Practice Note: Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development projects

This note has been prepared by WRI India as part of the assignment: “Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Orien...

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Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

Many cities have realized they cannot build themselves out of traffic jams by adding new roads and parking lots. An alternative...

View from above of a lot filled with parked minibuses, billboards, vendors and other people.

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Toward Efficient Informal Urban Transit

This guide will help users: 1 In Sub-Saharan Africa and some other developing countries, informal transit is called “paratrans...

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How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

Although organizations cannot determine how employees commute to work, they can influence their travel patterns by implementing...

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City Climate Action Planning

By the end of this guide, users will:

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BETA: Social Equity Considerations for Cities’ Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

Purpose of this guide This guide is developed by Cities4Forests to direct cities toward positive, equitable, and inclusive fore...

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Battery Monitoring – Importance and Solutions for Public Transport Companies

We all know how much effort has been put into bringing electric buses to India. As a result, we are slowly starting t...

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AQ Tech Talk: Forecast and Impacts of Saharan Dust

Every year in the summer, dust particulates from the Saharan Desert are suspended by strong winds and carried across the Atlant...

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Towards a More Equal City: World Resources Report Update and COVID-19 Connections

The coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus many underlying economic and social fragilities in urban areas. This kind...

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Technology, financing and commercialization aspects: Lessons from Indian EV Start-up

We all know how first and last mile connectivity can be a hindrance for the seamless usage of a perfect public transportation s...

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Lithium-ion Battery Hazards and Design Challenges for the Electric Vehicle Sector

India is witnessing significant growth in the e-mobility and renewable energy sectors. Batteries are an integral part of these ...

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Build Back Better: Cities at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery

Cities are not only at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also likely to see lasting changes from it, from their ...

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Disruptive Potential of Fuel Cell Technology in the Indian Transportation Sector

Recent growth in EV adoption has raised the question of how EVs affect the current ecosystem – including the market,...

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AQ Tech Talk: Towards Cleaner Air in Surat, India

Air pollution in India is a serious health issue that is responsible for over 1.2 million premature deaths a year in the countr...

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Electricity Pricing and Charging Strategy for Electric Vehicles in India

Recent growth in Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption has raised the question of how EVs affect the electricity rates paid by all hou...

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Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

This introduction to financing sustainable urban development covers the need for this type of finance, new funding sources, and...

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Understanding Batteries for Electric Vehicles (EV): Technology and Performance Aspects

To encourage mass adoption of electric mobility in Indian cities and see the expected positive impacts, it is very important to...

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Testing and Accreditation Status of Electric Vehicles in India

With electric mobility emerging as one of the most prominent measures to tackle climate change, it is important to keep in mind...

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Sustainable Financial Mechanisms and Innovative Business Models for Electric vehicles in India

Although there have been many efforts to promote electrification of transport in India, there are still major anxieties th...

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Standardizing Charging of Electric Vehicles: Benefits, Opportunities and Challenges

India is moving rapidly towards cleaner transportation with the growth in electric mobility. The Government has introduced suit...

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Retrofitting for Electric Vehicles: Status, Potential and Challenges

India is moving rapidly towards cleaner transportation with the growth in electric mobility. The Indian government has introduc...

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Impact of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging on the Local Grid

The transport sector is the largest user of oil and second largest source of CO2 emissions world-wide. The Indian transportatio...

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Corporate Adoption of Electric Vehicles in India

For the benefits of electric vehicles to be utilized to the maximum level, they should be adopted within all segments of s...

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Circular Economy Strategy for Batteries in India

Re-use and recycling of batteries are a key component of the circular economy strategy for the batteries from electric vehicles...

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Toxic Air: The Challenge of Ozone Pollution

Surface ozone is a dangerous climate and air pollutant, damaging human health, ecosystems, crops and other plants, and contribu...

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OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data and Community

Air pollution, responsible for more deaths each year than HIV/AIDS and malaria, combined, is a global public health crisis. Yet...

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Bringing Sustainable Development Considerations to Renewable Energy Decision-Making

Financial analyses, which consider financial costs and income, have typically informed energy-related decision-making...

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Transforming Streets and Public Spaces with Tactical Urbanism

Road safety is a global concern, as more than 1.35 million people are killed on roads each year. As part of its road safety pro...

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World TOD Resource

The TOD Resource is an interactive website that brings together resources developed by the WRI family around the world as well ...

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Enabling Safe Commutes for School Children: Case of Rohtak, Haryana

The World Health Organization estimates that 224 children around the world lose their lives in road traffic crashes every ...

A bus and people walking in the city of Joinville, Brazil

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How to Incorporate TOD Strategy into Master Plans

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is already established as one of the main urban planning strategies for compact growth. Howe...

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Improving Access Through Efficient Paratransit Systems

By the end of this Learning Guide, readers will:

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Enabling Safe Access to Mass Transit: A tool for community engagement and decision making

Cities are investing millions of dollars in creating mass transit but unable to achieve their full potential due the poor first...

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Business Models for Electric Bus Adoption

This webinar will explain some principal components of business models that enable adoption of electric buses in public transpo...

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Global BRT Data

An interactive, public platform for reliable and current data about high performance bus systems in over 200 cities worldwide. ...

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Design Principles of Cycling [Draft Version]

This guide will give you information about cycling infrastructure and introduce you to 6 design principles for cycling. It will...

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Benefits of Cycling [Draft Version]

This guide will give you information about the benefits of cycling and introduce the actions you can take to increase cycling i...

New construction visible behind railway station in Mumbai, India.

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TOD Policy & Regulations

The use of transit-oriented development (TOD) as an urban growth strategy is relatively new in India. Translating policy to act...

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TOD Concept, Principles and Design Interventions

This webinar will focus on how to attain transit-oriented development (TOD), keeping in view the geographical context. The sess...

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Safe Access to Mass Transit Stations – A Community Engagement Program

Indian cities are growing at a phenomenal rate. Urbanization is expected to go from 33% to well beyond 40% in the next decade a...

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Overview of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Estimates for India

This webinar will highlight the overall trend of GHG emissions from key economic sectors in India: Energy, Industrial Processes...

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India’s Strategy for Transforming Mobility | Webinar Series

From 30 July to 3 August 2018, WRI India will host a webinar series on “Transforming Mobility – Challenges and...

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Financing TOD: Where Will the Money Come From?

Operationalization of TOD typically spans many years, requiring significant capital investment. This can be burdensome on ...

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Acquiring, Planning, and Servicing Land for Urbanization in India

Rapidly urbanising Indian cities need mechanisms to ensure that land is acquired, planned, and serviced with adequate infrastru...

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Capacity Building for Urban Development

Recognized as a National Training Entity by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, WRI India supports multiple states with ...

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Safe Access to Mass Transit (SAM) Workshop

This interactive workshop familiarizes participants with the principles of safe access to and around mass transit stations, as ...

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Safe Access Manual – safe access to mass transit stations in Indian cities

The Safe Access Manual offers strategies, case studies, and guidelines for enabling safe access to mass transit stations in Ind...

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Business Models for Financing TOD in Indian Cities

This session aims to help participants identify existing and innovative business models which can be contextualized for TOD fin...

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Mainstreaming Climate Resilient Planning

Presentations, expert talks, and workshops This training empowers city officials to better understand, manage and plan for clim...