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Assessments
UN-HABITAT
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State of the World’s Cities 2006/2007
UN-Habitat, Nairobi, 2006. ISBN: 92/1/131811-4
It is generally assumed that urban populations are healthier, more literate
and more prosperous than rural populations. However, UN-HABITAT’s
State of the World’s Cities Report 2006/7 has broken new ground
by showing that the urban poor suffer from an urban penalty: Slum dwellers
in developing countries are as badly off if not worse off than their rural
relatives.
The report can be ordered on the Earthscan
website: www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=5001
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The
State of the World’s Cities 2004/2005
UN-Habitat, Nairobi, September 2004. ISBN:
92-1-131705-3.
Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and Sterling.
The State of the World's Cities 2004/2005 charts the progress and the
challenges we face in this rapidly urbanising world. With contributions
from some of the world's leading urban scholars, writers and experts,
this report carries extensive examples, illustrations and facts that are
of use to experts and non-experts alike. First published in 2001, this
flagship report of UN-HABITAT now published every two years, represents
a further milestone in the efforts of the United Nations to gather, promote,
and disseminate information for policy makers and the public at large.
The report can be ordered on the Earthscan
website: www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=5001
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Financing
urban shelter - Global Report on Human Settlements 2005
UN-Habitat, Nairobi, 2005. ISBN No.: 92-1-131739-8
Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing
finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within
the overall context of macroeconomic policies. The report describes and
analyses housing finance conditions and trends in all regions of the world,
including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community
funding highlighting their relevance to the upgrading of slums.
The report can be ordered on the Earthscan
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The
Challenge of Slums - Global Report on Human Settlements 2003
UN-Habitat, Nairobi, 2003. ISBN No.: 1-844407-037-9.
Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and Sterling, VA. 300 pages.
Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, this book presents
estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors
at all levels, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums
as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics.
It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge
of the last few decades.
The report can be ordered on the Earthscan
website: http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=4024
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WATER
AND SANITATION IN THE WORLD'S CITIES: Local Action for Global Goals
UN-Habitat, Nairobi, 2003. 304 pages.
Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and Sterling, VA. ISBN 1844070042.
This influential publication sets out in detail the scale of inadequate
provision of water and sanitation. It describes the impacts on health
and economic performance, showing the potential gains of remedial action;
it analyses the proximate and underlying causes of poor provision and
identifies information gaps affecting resource allocation; it outlines
the consequences of further deterioration; and it explains how resources
and institutional capacities – public, private and community –
can be used to deliver proper services through integrated water resource
management.
The report can be ordered on the Earthscan
website: http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3902
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THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES REPORT
UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 2001.
ISBN 92-1-131476-3.
Starting with this 2001 edition, the State of the World's Cities Report
takes the reader through Africa, the Arab States, Asia and the Pacific,
the highly industrialized countries, Latin America and the Caribbean and
countries with economies in transition to understand better how shelter,
society, environment, economy, and, above all, systems of governance can
contribute to urban vibrancy and viability in a globalizing world. |
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CITIES
IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD: GLOBAL REPORT ON HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 2001.
Earthscan Publications Ltd, London and Sterling, VA. ISBN 1-85383-806-3.
Cities in a Globalizing World presents a comprehensive review of the world’s
cities and analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements
of the global trends towards social and economic integration and the rapid
changes in information and communication technologies.
The report can be ordered on the Earthscan website: hhttp://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3342
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UNISDR
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LIVING
WITH RISK: A global review of disaster reduction initiatives
Prepared as an inter-agency effort coordinated
by the ISDR Secretariat with special support from the Government of Japan,
the WMO and the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (Kobe, Japan); 2002. Geneva,
Switzerland.
Living With Risk is a 400 page study of the lessons learned by experts
and communities in response to hazards presented by natural forces - volcanoes,
fires, hurricanes, tsunamis, landslides and tornadoes - technological
accidents and environmental degradation. This document is a preliminary
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UNEP
UNU
IFRC
WORLD
DISASTERS REPORT - 2002
Focus on reducing risk- Published annually
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva -
240 p.
ISBN 92-9139-082-8. |
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WORLD
DISASTERS REPORT - 2001
Focus on recovery - Published annually
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Geneva -
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Indicators
Links and Resources
UN resources
 Agenda 21, Chapter 7
UN-HABITAT
UNEP.NET/Urban
Env.
UNISDR
WorldBank/Urban
Development
Other resources
IISD/Linkages/Human
Dev
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