Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007As the global population becomes increasingly concentrated in urban areas, the world has witnessed growing threats to urban safety and security. While some of these threats have taken the form of large-scale events such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks, others are the widespread and more common symptoms of physical, economic and social inequalities within the world's cities. The 2007 Global Report will be devoted to three major dimensions of urban safety and security: crime and violence; security of tenure and protection against forced eviction; and natural and human-made disasters. The report will focus on appropriate urban planning and management methods designed to: reduce the incidence and impacts of crime and violence; reduce the incidence and consequences of tenure insecurity (including forced evictions), with respect to both shelter and informal sector enterprises; and mitigate the impacts of disasters (both natural and human-made). The volume will be essential reading for all professionals and researchers in the relevant fields and a valuable resource for teachers and students of urban development |
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Contents
Reducing Urban Crime and Violence | 239 |
Enhancing Tenure Security and Ending Forced Evictions | 262 |
Mitigating the Impacts of Disasters | 278 |
Risk Reduction through LandUse Planning | 283 |
Strengthening Early Warning Systems | 290 |
The Role of Participatory and Inclusive Strategies and Policies | 296 |
Introduction | 303 |
Security of Tenure and Forced Evictions | 312 |
Introduction | 111 |
Policy Responses to Tenure Insecurity | 137 |
PART IV | 163 |
Policy Responses to Disaster Risk | 195 |
The Case of Road Traffic Accidents | 219 |
PART V | 233 |
PART VII | 327 |
Data tables | 337 |
References | 411 |
Index | 433 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007 Global report on human settlements |
| Authors | Un-Habitat, United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Earthscan, 2007 |
| ISBN | 1844074757, 9781844074754 |
| Length | 448 pages |
| Subjects | › › Law / Housing & Urban Development Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries |
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