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Many civic leaders in North America and Europe realize that tackling urban crime involves more than adding to the police force. Now, innovative, environmentally based approaches to the crisis have made encouraging progress. Detailing new strategies, this first-of-its-kind handbook shows how smarter urban design and management can be strong deterrents to many site-specific crimes.
In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery.
Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women’s safety in the context of poverty reduction and social inclusion. Drawing upon two decades of research and grassroots action on safer cities for women and everyone, this book is about the right to an inclusive city. The first part of the book describes the challenges that women face regarding access to essential services, housing security, liveability and mobility. The second part of the book critically examines programs, projects and ideas that are working to make cities safer. Building Inclusive Cities takes a cross-cultural learning perspective from action research occurring throughout the world and translates this research into theoretical conceptualizations to inform the literature on planning and urban management in both developing and developed countries. This book is intended to inspire both thought and action.
Building codes and land use regulatory systems have been largely neglected, to date, in disaster risk reduction strategies for developing countries. Experience has demonstrated the inappropriate transposition of codes and standards from high-income, developed countries to developing countries. Successful mechanisms of risk reduction and hazard adaptation in the developed world have relied in large part on effective and efficient regulation. Regulations have dramatically reduced the incidence of urban conflagration and epidemic disease over the past two centuries. It is now necessary that this collective experience be better understood and appropriately adapted to local conditions and incorporated into sustainable regulatory implementation systems. In March 2015, at the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 made clear the renewed international consensus on the importance of building and land use regulation for disaster risk reduction. This report will provide an analysis of available evidence to increase international awareness and understanding for the role of effective building code implementation practices within broader disaster risk reduction strategies. Focusing primariliy on practices relevant to low and middle-income countries, it will call for a renewed and internationally coordinated effort in this area. The report will also outline a proposed programmatic approach consistent with the priorities set out in the post-2015 agenda for disaster risk reduction."