Resources 📚
Table of contents 📋
Videos 📹
- Game for Change #SaveSemakau
- Singapore’s Last Landfill is Running Out of Space
- Singapore Water Story: From Scarce Resource to National Asset
Essential Readings 📕
Urban Systems Studies (USS)
- Liveable and Sustainable Cities: A Framework
- Biodiversity: Nature Conservation in the Greening of Singapore
- Preparing for a Climate Resilient Singapore
- Food and the City: Overcoming Challenges for Food Security
- Water - From Scarce Resource to National Asset
- Energising Singapore: Balancing Liveability and Growth
General
- Building Climate Resilience in Cities Worldwide
- Maritime Singapore: Decarbonisation Blueprint – Working towards 2050
- Singapore will raise climate ambition to achieve Net Zero Emissions by or around Mid Century, and revises Carbon Tax Levels from 2024
- Addendum to Singapore’s long-term low-emissions development strategy
- Net Zero: decarbonising the city
- The Delta Programme: The Dutch Integrated Approach to climate Resilience
- A Guide to Implementing Coastal Nature-based solutions for Singapore
- Planning for a Liveable and Heat-Resilient City
- Building & Cooling Singapore in an era of Climate Change
- Key points on ensuring food security in Singapore
- Food security from the ground up: A community approach
- Zero Waste Masterplan Singapore
- Towards a Zero Waste Nation
- Food Waste Management: Cooking Food Once, Using It Twice
- Our Water Policy in a Nutshell
- On the Road to Independence: The Case of Water Management in Singapore
- Singapore’s Water Loop
- From resource to asset: Building a water-resilient Singapore
- Singapore’s experience in water demand management
- The Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters Programme: Water as an environmental Asset
- Living with water: Lessons from Singapore and Rotterdam
- Singapore’s Energy story
- Empowering Cities for a Net Zero Future: Unlocking resilient, smart, sustainable urban energy systems
News Articles 📰
- More decarbonising initiatives for Singapore’s built environment sector in move towards net-zero by 2050
- Singapore committed to decarbonisation goals while uplifting workers in the transformation: Grace Fu
- PUB explores underground space to protect Singapore against rising sea levels
- Saving Singapore’s Shores
- Climate-proofing Singapore’s coastlines: Some coastal protection projects
- What if East Coast Park and other coastal areas in Singapore go under water?
- Heat and the City: Hugh-rise areas get almost twice as hot as low-rise residential areas
- How hot and humid Singapore is trying to cool itself down
- Singapore moves a step closer to local food resilience with ground-breaking of Sats food hub
- Shaping a more sustainable and secure food future for all
- Commentary: Why does Singapore still lack a recycling ethos?
- Environmental experts sound the alarm on how fast Singapore’s only landfill Semakau is filling up
- Ensuring Singapore’s water security is about pricing it right and more
- Why water price hike is necessary
- All Singaporeans must do their part to achieve sustainable water supply: DPM Wong
- Singapore to build-back-up power plant to boost energy resilience
- Measures to secure Singapore’s energy supply extended until end-March 2023 amid protracted global volatility
- Singapore to start imports of renewable energy from Indonesia within 5 years
- Singapore to invest in new capabilities to meet sustainability targets, raise climate resilience
Research Papers 📃
- Tortajada, C., & Lim, N. S. W. (2021). Food security and COVID-19: impacts and resilience in Singapore.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 740780.
- Tortajada, C., & Joshi, Y. K. (2013). Water demand management in Singapore: involving the public. Water resources management, 27(8), 2729-2746.
Jakarta Reading Materials
Introduction
- Jakarta: Indonesia, History, Map, Population & Facts: Britannica
- Jakarta- History of a Misunderstood City
- Indonesia’s Urban Story
- Chapter 3: Examining the Interdependencies Between Urbanisation, Internal Migration, Urban Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from Indonesia (PDF) Patterns and Trends of Urbanisation and Urban Growth in Asia
- INDONESIA’s URBAN STUDIES: The Megacity of Jakarta: Problems, Challenges and Planning Efforts
- Jakarta: A city of cities-PMC
Demography and Urban Expansion
- Jakarta to Overtake Tokyo as Most Populated Megacity by 2030: Business Wire
- Jakarta Population 2024
- Jakarta, Indonesia Metro Area Population 1950-2023: MacroTrends
- Jakarta Population: History, Map and Facts
- Pre-Urban transformation in the Jakarta metropolitan area
- Return to the Inner City? Jakarta Housing Market…by Daniel Caesar Pratama: Medium
Urban Issues and Megapolitan Plans
- The correlation analysis between urbanisation phenomena and landuse change in Jakarta Special Province
- Govt plans to develop Jakarta as part of megalopolis-ANTARA News
- Strategi Ketahanan Kota Jakarta
Water Management and Environmental Challenges
- Governance of flood risk management in a time of climate change: The cases of Jakarta and Rotterdam
- Flooding in Jakarta - Towards a blue city with improved water management
- Better flood management can save Jakarta
- Jakarta and Bali commit to create Sustainable Water Management: 10th World Water Forum 2024
- Jakarta water supply provision strategy based on supply and demand analysis: H2Open Journal: IWA Publishing
- Collaborative measures in the archipelago needed to ensure water security - Inforial- The Jakarta Post
- It’s Time to Rethink Jakarta’s Water Governance
Energy, Food and Waste Management in the Megapolitan Context
- Impact of continuous Jakarta megacity urban expansion on the formation of the Jakarta-Bandung conurbation over the rice farm regions-ScienceDirect
- 7 things to know about Jakarta’s Air Pollution Crisis: WRI Indonesia
- Sustainable Energy Transition Roadmap for Jakarta
- Solid Waste Management of Jakarta- Indonesia
- Waste Management in Indonesia and Jakarta: Challenges and Way Forward
- Waste Problem in Jakarta will be solved- Green Info
- Community-Based Waste Management Model in DKI Jakarta
- Neighbourhood-based waste management: A solution for solid waste problems in Jakarta, Indonesia- ScienceDirect
- Transformative Solutions in the Global South: Addressing Solid Waste Management Challenges in Jakarta Through Participation by Civil Society Organisation? SpringerLink
- Three-fourths of waste in Jakarta’s notoriously polluted rivers is plastic
Climate Change Impact and Megapolitan Sustainability
- Identifying the sustainability level of urban slums in the Greater Jakarta Indonesia using a composite index
- Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation through Collaborative Governance: Experience from Urban Flooding in Jakarta
- Assessing Jakarta’s Climate Investments
- Living in a hot city: thermal justice through green open space provision
Governance and Policy in the Megapolitan Framework
- Govt plans to develop Jakarta as part of megalopolis -ANTARA News
- Ensuring Jakarta’s post-capital relocation development - ANTARA News
- Jakarta without the Capital City Status: Multi perspective Opinion and Integrated Development - Universitas Indonesia
- Jakarta aims to become global city after capital relocation
- Jakarta After Being the Capital City - Kompas.id