Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007

ISBN-13: 9781844074754 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 380 str.

Un-Habitat

Opis

This is an in-depth examination of a broad range of urban security issues, focusing on three key aspects of urban safety and security: crime and violence; security of tenure and protection against forced eviction; and natural and human-made disasters.

Spis treści

Foreword * Introduction * Part I: Understanding Urban Safety and Security * Current Threats to Urban Safety and Security * Vulnerability, Risk and Resilience: Towards a Conceptual Framework * Part II: Urban Crime and Violence * Urban Crime and Violence: Conditions and Trends * Urban Crime and Violence: Policy Responses * Part III: Security of Tenure * Security of Tenure: Conditions and Trends * Policy Responses to Tenure Insecurity * Part IV: Natural and Human-Made Disasters * Disaster Risk: Conditions, Trends and Impacts * Policy Responses to Disaster Risk * Small-Scale Hazards: The Case of Road Traffic Accidents * Part V: Towards Safer and More Secure Cities * Reducing Urban Crime and Violence * Enhancing Tenure Security and Ending Forced Evictions * Mitigating the Impact of Disasters * Part VI: Summary of Case Studies * Part VII: Statistical Annex * Index

O autorze

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is the agency responsible for coordinating human settlements issues within the United Nations system. It promotes economically productive, socially inclusive and environmentally liveable cities, towns and rural settlements, as well as adequate shelter for all. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. It is an essential reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations all over the world. Preceding issues of the report have addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums and Financing Urban Shelter.