How People Face Evictions

05 November 2011

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Governance of Water and Sanitation Services for the Peri-urban Poor

05 November 2011

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A Framework for Understanding and Action in Metropolitan Regions
This document is aimed at a broad range of development and environmental professionals, civic society groups, staff in training institutions and aid agencies, politicians and other decision-makers at the local, metropolitan and national levels. This diverse range of ...

Cities and Structural Adjustment

Authors:
Nigel Harris
Ida Fabricius

Cities in the 1990s: The Challenge for Developing Countries

Published by UCL Press
Authors:
Nigel Harris

Socially-Sensitive Policies in the Context of Structural Adjustment: A Training Manual

Published for the UN and UNDP

English and Chinese Glossary of Key Social Development Concepts and Terms

Authors:
Sheilah Meikle
Julian Walker

English Glossary of Key Social Development Concepts and Terms

Authors:
Sheilah Meikle
Julian Walker

The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas

A collection of ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers written by some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the field of urban sustainability. The experience of urban environmental management is presented from several ...

Spatial Planning for Urban Infrastructure Investment: A Guide to Training and Practice

This manual takes the trainer and user through a set of actions to produce spatial urban plans and to use them for advising decision makers on investments in services. They can be understood ...

Guidelines for Strategic Environmental Planning and Management of the Peri-Urban Interface

These guidelines comprise three short volumes, a flyer, and a poster. They seek to provide a basic understanding of the processes involved in the environmental planning and management of the PUI, as well ...

The Peri-urban Interface. A Tale of Two Cities

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More than half the world's population lives in areas that are classified as urban. In developing countries, a substantial and growing proportion lives in or around metropolitan areas and ...

Implementing the Habitat Agenda. In Search of Urban Sustainability

The Habitat Agenda was adopted at the second United Nations conference on Human Settlements 'The City Summit' in Istanbul in 1996, when governments of the world signed up to an ambitious Global Plan ...

Sustainable Urbanisation: Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas

The World’s development and environmental communities came together for the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. This summit produced a comprehensive vision for the future under the banner of Sustainable Development. Agenda ...

104. SPARC Housing Exhibitions

Authors: Sundar Burra