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Human Settlements
Emerging Issues
Major Assessments
UN-Habitat
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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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 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
UN
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 version of
a final publication, which will be published early 2003.
UNEP
UNU
IFRC
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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
- 248 p.
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