Urban Management Programme, 1997-2001
Author : Urban Management Program
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2002
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789211316551
Author : Urban Management Program
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2002
Category : AIDS (Disease)
ISBN : 9789211316551
Author : Zmarak Shalizi
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821351505
TheWorld Development Report 2003addresses how to lift from poverty the three billion people now living in severe deprivation. It also explores how to improve the quality of life for everybody today and for the two billion more who will join mankind in the next thirty years. Substantial increases in growth and productivity will be necessary to achieve this goal. The current scale of economic activity and speed of change is such that ecosystem and social structures cannot keep up. TheReportputs forth two main messages: the first point is that enhancing prosperity and reducing poverty requires better care of the planet's ecosystem and social fabric. And secondly, that stronger collective action at all levels--from local to global--is essential for generating and scaling up the institutions that can transform growth.
Author : Nick Devas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1136549293
Poverty and governance are both issues high on the agenda of international agencies and governments in the South. With urban areas accounting for a steadily growing share of the world's poor people, an international team of researchers focused their attention on the hitherto little-studied relationship between urban governance and urban poverty. In their timely and in-depth examination of ten cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, they demonstrate that in many countries the global trends towards decentralization and democratization offer new opportunities for the poor to have an influence on the decisions that affect them. They also show how that influence depends on the nature of those democratic arrangements and decision-making processes at the local level, as well as on the ability of the poor to organize. The study involved interviews with key actors within and outside city governments, discussions with poverty groups, community organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as analyses of data on poverty, services and finance. This book presents insights, conclusions and practical examples that are of relevance for other cities. It outlines policy implications for national and local governments, NGOs and donor agencies, and highlights ways in which poor people can use their voice to influence the various institutions of city governance.
Author :
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 9211316669
Author : Liz Case
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Urban development
ISBN : 9211314771
Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1136554750
The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, 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. From this assessment, the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums, the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities, governments, civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.
Author : Isa Baud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,77 MB
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402025297
This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics. Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it: -utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis; -provides embedded case study data; -deals with both formal and informal actors and institutional arrangements in solid waste management and recycling; -has chapters written by experts from the countries concerned (Kenya and India); -can be used in graduate-level courses in urban development, urban management and planning, and technical engineering courses for students, project staff, and technical students.
Author :
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788171884452
The Himachal Pradesh Development Report Review`S The State`S Development Experience And Highlights Issues Critical For Its Future Progress. The State`S Latent Potential In Hydel Power, Tourism, Bio-Business And Its Transformation In Social Sectors Is Well Documented In The Report. The Report Is Expected To Serve As A Useful Reference And Stimulate Informed Debate On The Policy Issues Facing A Hill State.
Author :
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9211320151
With rapidly increasing urban populations, cities in Africa are faced with enormous challenges and will have to find ways to facilitate by 2015 urban services, livelihoods and housing for more than twice as many urban dwellers than it has today. A worrying trend with the African urbanization process is that it is a process rooted in poverty rather than an industrialization-induced socio-economic transition as in other major world urban regions. Africas escalating urban problems have received less attention than warranted and now, at the dawn of Africas urban age, these need to be addressed - publisher.
Author : Sustainable Cities Programme
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 2002
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9211316324