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

ISBN-13: 9781844074792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 380 str.

Un-Habitat

Opis

As 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).

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.