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Although poverty remains a primarily rural phenomenon, urban poverty is becoming a severe, pervasive – and largely unacknowledged feature of urban life. The findings in this report show how...

The 21st century is the Century of the City. Cities contain both order and chaos. How can city planners and policymakers harmonize the various interests, diversity and inherent contradictions within...

The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban...

What this new edition of State of the World’s Cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a narrow focus on economic growth. UN-Habitat suggests a fresh approach to prosperity...

Africa is in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Its economic performance is...

This Report goes above and beyond the first Report, which provided a general overview of housing and urban management issues in Africa. While examining poverty, slum incidence and governance, this...

The reflections are written by a group of distinguished scientists and diplomats who were involved in the establishment, or subsequent work of the IAEA. The publication represents a collection of...

The recognition and application of irradiation as a sanitary and phytosanitary treatment of food is becoming increasingly important. This report highlights the importance of proper dosimetry systems...

This book is based on an international conference organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency in March 2001 in Spain. The conference was co-sponsored by the European Commission, Pan American...

This publication presents the most recent reactor data available from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). It contains summarized information as of the end of 2001 on power reactors...

This publication presents the most recent estimates of energy, electricity and nuclear power trends up to the year 2020.

This glossary reflects recent advances in the strengthening of the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards system. It aims at facilitating the understanding of the specialized safeguards...

These regulations establish standards of safety with the purpose of providing an acceptable level of control of the radiation, hazardous to persons, property and the environment, and which are...

This publication provides guidance on various aspects of emergency planning and preparedness for dealing effectively and safely with transport accidents involving radioactive material, including the...

This publication provides guidance on proven and acceptable ways of complying with and demonstrating compliance with safety standards Series No. TS-R-1, Regulations for the Safe Transport of...

This report summarizes the findings of an appraisal carried out by 14 independent experts in June 2002, on all transport activities of radioactive material in the United Kingdom, both domestic and...

This document represents the final outcome of an International Atomic Energy Agency coordinated research project that studied the fire environment on board ships, as part of research on the severity...

This publication describes the contents of the inventory of accidents and losses at sea involving radioactive material. It covers accidents and losses resulting in the actual release of radioactive...

This publication contains proceedings of a symposium on Radioactive Residues and the Environment, held in the USA in November 1999. Radioactive residues can originate from several sources and may give...