UNESCO Monography: HCMC growing with water-related challenges
11/10/2016 4:00 PM GMT+7 TP HCM
The pretty work, a monography collection of 15 megacities in the world about "Water, megacities and Global Change”, has been published by UNESCO. The CARE Lab-HCMUT Researchers are honored to represent Ho Chi Minh City by contributing an article " HCMC growing with water-related HCMC Challenges" to this book. The article was written in the form of Monography that synthetizes many aspects (history, geography, hydrology, urbanism, etc) impacting urban water in HCMC. Book downloaded from the link below:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0024/002454/245419E.pdf
"This book is the outcome of the International Conference ‘Water, Megacities and Global Change’, and represents the collective work of 33 authors and co-authors. It contains summaries of monographs on 15 emblematic megacities: Beijing, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Manila, Mexico, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo. This edition provides unique information about water management in these megacities. A USB stick is attached to this printed edition containing three digital versions in English, French and Spanish, as well as the full-length versions of the original monographs (English and French versions). The digital content is available in open access at the publishers’ websites:
www.unesco.org
,
www.arceau-idf.fr
and/or
www.eaumega.org.
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