Sustaining livelihoods by improving urban public transport

Urban Public Transport Challenges

This paper focuses on a number of challenges faced by the public transport industry and the prospects for resolution. Many of the issues are often shrouded in ideology, politics and prejudices that typically cloud the real merits of a solution. We argue that public transport is increasingly a niche provider of land passenger transport services, which if positioned and managed better will be cap...

Sustaining Livelihoods through Animal Genetic Resources Conservation

Mixed value urban development: Mechanisms for sustaining the livelihoods and social capital of the urban poor in core urban areas

There is a need for a more integrated and flexible approach to core area urban redevelopment at a time when pressures to maximise economic returns from inner city land threaten to disrupt the livelihoods and established social networks of many urban poor communities. This paper draws upon the experiences of established planning and partnership redevelopment strategies (i.e. land sharing, land r...

Sustaining animal-agriculture in a changing landscape—improving lives and livelihoods

Agriculture has to keep pace with the food requirements of increasing human populations. Also, with rising incomes, the consumption of meat and dairy products also rises. This has been very vividly reflected in several countries in South East Asia, including Malaysia. Meat consumption per capita is now well above 5% per year, and is likely to rise further. A major justification for improved ani...

Service Reliability and Urban Public Transport Design