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The State of the World's Cities Report 2006-2007
The Millennium Development Goals and Urban Sustainability - 30 Years of Shaping the Habitat Agenda
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...
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...
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State of the World's Cities 2008-2009
Harmonious Cities
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 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...
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State of the World's Cities 2010/2011
Bridging the Urban Divide
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...
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...
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State of the World's Cities 2012/2013
Prosperity of Cities
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...
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...
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Costs of Disarmament
Rethinking the Price Tag - A Methodological Inquiry into the Costs and Benefits of Arms Control
This study investigates the methodological challenges of analyzing the costs and benefits associated with arms control. The need for such a study has arisen because the cumulative increases in the...
This study investigates the methodological challenges of analyzing the costs and benefits associated with arms control. The need for such a study has arisen because the cumulative increases in the...
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The Security Council at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
To What Extent Is It Willing and Able to Maintain International Peace and Security?
This study looks at the United Nations Security Council through the prism of major international security issues since the end of the Cold War. Special emphasis is placed on explaining how the...
This study looks at the United Nations Security Council through the prism of major international security issues since the end of the Cold War. Special emphasis is placed on explaining how the...
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Conseil de Sécurité à L'aube du XXIème Siècle, Le
Quelle Volonté et Quelle Capacité a-t-il de Maintenir la Paix et la Sécurité Internationales?
Le développement de l'activité du Conseil de sécurité depuis la fin de la guerre froide s'est accompagné d'une mutation de ses principaux instruments d'intervention à la mesure des changements des...
Le développement de l'activité du Conseil de sécurité depuis la fin de la guerre froide s'est accompagné d'une mutation de ses principaux instruments d'intervention à la mesure des changements des...
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The State of African Cities 2014
Re-Imagining Sustainable Urban Transitions
Series: The State of African Cities
( Print: September 2015,
PDF: December 2015
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Africa is in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Its economic performance is...
Africa is in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Its economic performance is...
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L'etat des villes Africaines 2014
Réinventer la transition urbaine
Series: L'état des villes africaines
( PDF: December 2015
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Le continent africain se trouve en proie à des mutations majeures qui se déroulent simultanément dans les domains démographique, économique, technologique, environnemental, urbain et sociopolitique...
Le continent africain se trouve en proie à des mutations majeures qui se déroulent simultanément dans les domains démographique, économique, technologique, environnemental, urbain et sociopolitique...
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Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Time for Control
Following the New York terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, the issue of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, in particular fissile materials, has been raised on numerous occasions. The...
Following the New York terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, the issue of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, in particular fissile materials, has been raised on numerous occasions. The...
Tactical Nuclear Weapons
A Perspective from Ukraine
This study is concerned with the present and future role of tactical nuclear weapons in the new European security system. Ukraine, a country that once had the world's third largest nuclear arsenal...
This study is concerned with the present and future role of tactical nuclear weapons in the new European security system. Ukraine, a country that once had the world's third largest nuclear arsenal...
Illicit Traffic in Firearms
Prevention and Combat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - A National, Regional and Global Issue
The problem of illicit trafficking in firearms, ammunition and explosives, is a local, regional and international concern. Effective measures against it must involve a concerted effort by the relevant...
The problem of illicit trafficking in firearms, ammunition and explosives, is a local, regional and international concern. Effective measures against it must involve a concerted effort by the relevant...
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The State of African Cities 2010
Governance, Inequality and Urban Land Markets
Series: The State of African Cities
( Print: April 2011
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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...
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...
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World Cities Report 2016
Urbanization and Development - Emerging Futures
Series: World Cities Report
( Print: July 2016,
PDF: July 2016
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The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and...
The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and...
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Project Coast
Apartheid's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme
This publication explains how the apartheid government in South Africa put together a determined chemical and biological weapons programme aimed at poisoning people within and outside South Africa....
This publication explains how the apartheid government in South Africa put together a determined chemical and biological weapons programme aimed at poisoning people within and outside South Africa....
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State of Urban Youth Report 2012-2013
Youth in the Prosperity of Cities
This report examines both the developed and the developing world, and how the formal sector is unable to provide adequate employment opportunities for young people seeking gainful work. The inability...
This report examines both the developed and the developing world, and how the formal sector is unable to provide adequate employment opportunities for young people seeking gainful work. The inability...
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Informal Transport in the Developing World
( Print: November 2003
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This study reviews the informal transport sector throughout the world, and identifies promising enabling and remedial strategies. The publication is a valuable tool for local, regional and national...
This study reviews the informal transport sector throughout the world, and identifies promising enabling and remedial strategies. The publication is a valuable tool for local, regional and national...
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Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities 2006
Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centres
Half of the world’s people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. This volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of...
Half of the world’s people live in urban areas, and roughly a third of these live in desperate poverty without access to basic amenities. This volume focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of...
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Promoting Local Economic Development through Strategic Planning
Series: Local Economic Development Series, The
( Print: December 2006
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Strategic planning for local economic development is a cornerstone of sustainable development. It involves wise resource use, integrating values and thinking ahead. The LED Training Series uses case...
Strategic planning for local economic development is a cornerstone of sustainable development. It involves wise resource use, integrating values and thinking ahead. The LED Training Series uses case...
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Key Competencies for Improving Local Governance
( Print: December 2006
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Now more than ever, local governments are at the forefront of responding to growing social, economic and environmental challenges. Local elected officials need to develop competencies to effectively...
Now more than ever, local governments are at the forefront of responding to growing social, economic and environmental challenges. Local elected officials need to develop competencies to effectively...