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Author : Alcira Kreimer,Margaret Arnold,Anne Carlin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 0821354973
Author : Alcira Kreimer,Margaret Arnold,Anne Carlin
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015060583401
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.
Author : Gerda R. Wekerle,Carolyn Whitzman
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Van Nostrand Reinhold
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009766655
Ordinary people are natural experts on safety in their own communities. The key to creating a city where people feel safe is to give citizens input into developing safer environments for themselves. This book offers a set of easy-to-follow guidelines - well illustrated with photos - that can be used to improve urban safety. It also includes success stories on the ways that ordinary people, working in partnership with local governments and agencies have taken the initiative to fight back against violent crime in public housing, transit, parks and open places, underground parking, schools, houses and neighbourhoods.
Author : Carolyn Whitzman,Crystal Legacy,Caroline Andrew,Fran Klodawsky,Margaret Shaw,Kalpana Viswanath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136231872
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.
Author : Carolyn Whitzman,Crystal Legacy,Caroline Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415628164
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.
Author : Gregory Saville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-20
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1977704557
SafeGrowth is a new model for building crime-resistant and vibrant neighborhoods in the 21st Century. This book chronicles how SafeGrowth and methods like CPTED - Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design - turn troubled places back from the brink of crime. This book compiles the results of recent SafeGrowth conferences and project work in high crime neighborhoods and it describes a new theory in city planning and crime prevention. The book includes chapters on urban planning, community development, crime prevention, and new policing strategies. Chapter authors include criminologists, community workers, urban planners, police specialists, and others directly involved in community work and urban design. Chapters also include summaries of recent SafeGrowth Summits, planning and visioning sessions for creating a new path forward. Chapters include: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; Smart Growth planning; livability academies; urban villages and the hub concept; SafeGrowth projects in Saskatoon and Red Deer in Canada and Hollygrove in New Orleans; and the 4 principles of SafeGrowth planning. While the original concept of SafeGrowth was developed by Gregory Saville, the book editor and primary author, other authors expand that original vision and describe a new way to plan and develop cities. The audience for this book includes community development practitioners, urban policy-makers, crime prevention specialists including police, students of urban development and crime prevention, planners, and anyone interested in a new way to create safer and livable neighborhoods.
Author : Timothy Beatley
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781642830477
How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are sickened by rat poison. These name just a few of the myriad hazards. How do our cities need to change in order to reduce the threats, often created unintentionally, that have resulted in nearly three billion birds lost in North America alone since the 1970s? In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Beatley shares empowering examples, including: advocates for “catios,” enclosed outdoor spaces that allow cats to enjoy backyards without being able to catch birds; a public relations campaign for vultures; and innovations in building design that balance aesthetics with preventing bird strikes. Through these changes and the others Beatley describes, it is possible to make our urban environments more welcoming to many bird species. Readers will come away motivated to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, with inspiring examples to draw from. Whether birds are migrating and need a temporary shelter or are taking up permanent residence in a backyard, when the environment is safer for birds, humans are happier as well.
Author : Evangelia Mitleton-Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642366147
As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.e. smart (technical) environments, which will eventually play the same active role in communication as the human players, leading to a co-evolution in all domains where real-time communication is essential. This topical volume, based on the findings of the Socionical European research project, gives equal attention to two highly relevant domains of applications: transport, specifically traffic, dynamics from the viewpoint of a socio-technical interaction and evacuation scenarios for large-scale emergency situations. Care was taken to investigate as much as possible the limits of scalability and to combine the modeling using complex systems science approaches with relevant data analysis.
Author : Vania Ceccato,Mahesh K. Nalla
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000097948
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and, finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Author : K.R. Murugan
Publisher : MJP Publisher
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
1. Empowerment – Safety Mechanism for Women, 2. Safety Planning and Designing Mechanisms to Combat Gender Based Violence, 3. Identification of Forms of Abuse and Abusers – A Safety Mechanism for Women, 4. An Analysis of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, 5. Generation Safety Rights of College Students, 6. Contacts of Social Networking Sites on Women’s Self Defense, 7. Knowledge of Women’s Self-Defense and Self-Protection, 8. Study on Girl Child Abuse: Chennai, 9. Forms of Abuse, 10. Enhancement of Safety and Security of Women, 11. Study on the Prevalence of Domestic Violence Against Women in Kothavalchavadi Slum, Chennai, 12. Some Insights into Gender Inequality in the Indian Labour Marketm, 13. Strategies for Enhancing Women’s Safety in Public Spaces, 14. Influence of Self Defense Programme for Adolescent Girls, 15. Violation of Child Rights by Deviant Parents in the Slums and Protective Mechanisms, 16. Sexual Harassment of Women in Sports, 17. Rape Victimization: Consequences, Preventive Approach and Restorative Justice Perspective, 18. Girl Students’ Safety Rights Practices in Co-Education Colleges, 19. Violence Against Women, 20. Domestic Violence and Abuse Against Women in India – An Overview, 21. Women’s Safety in Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 22. Socialization and Securing Children: An Analysis, 23. Empower Women to Rebuild Society, 24. Preventing Gender-Based Violence Through Safety and Security Mechanism, 25. Protection of Working Women Rights - Constitution Provisions and Judicial Approaches, 26. Assisted Reproductive Technology Abuse in Gestational Surrogacy, 27. Need of Life Skill Education for Adolescent Girls, 28. Violence Against Dalit Women: A Study in Selected District of Tamilnadu, 29. Health and Social Consequences of Violence Against Women and Girls, 30. A Study on Women Empowerment and Self-Help Group with Reference to Madurai District, 31. Aspects of Women Empowerment, 32. Protecting Women with Disabilities From Violence in India, 33. Gender Issues: The Role of Women in Agricultural Sector, 34. Women Workers and Perceptions of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India, 35. Forms of Abuse of Women Village Panchayat Presidents, 36. An Intelligent Security System for Violence Against Women in Public Places, 37. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 38. Consequences of Abuse Leading to Violence in Women and Child – An Analytical Review, 39. Social Exclusion of Differently – Abled Women, 40. Harassment of Women in Public Spaces: Three Case Studies, 41. Socio-Economic Empowerment of Tribal Women – An Indian Perspective, 42. Protect Female Children From Abuse, 43. Safety and Security Needs of Girl Children, 44. Women Tackling Violence in Public Places, 45. Building Safe and Inclusive Cities For Women and Girls, 46. Buildng a Safety Strategy for Women and Girls, 47. Violence Against Women, 48. The Upshot of Sky Yoga Intervention on Emotional Stability and Integrity Among Adolescence at NPTC, 49. Strategies for Adolescent Reproductive Health in India, 50. The Need for Safety and Security of Adolescent Girls in Public Spaces with Special Reference to Ponmalaipatti Area of Tiruchirappalli District, 51. Women Entrepreneurship in India: Challenges and Problems, 52. A Study on the Harassment of Kulal Beedi Rolling Women in Day-to-Day Life and Defence Mechanism, 53. Safety and Security Needs of Women and Girls in Public Spaces, 54. Analysis of Commonly Identifiable Traits and Styles Amongst the 50 Most Powerful Women in Global Business, 55. Preventing Bias in Implementing Women Development Prorammes, 56. A Study on Safety and Security of Women Employees in Information Technology Sector: A Sociological Perspective, 57. Planning and Designing Mechanism for Women at WorkPlace.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Un-Habitat
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Public safety
ISBN : UCBK:C083539152
"Excluded from the city's opportunities, physically, politically and economically marginalized, slum dwellers are particularly vulnerable to crime and violence. They face an acute risk of becoming victims or offenders and live in a state of constant insecurity. Only a few cities have incorporated a coherent component to prevent crime and mitigate violence in their urban development agendas. Impact on urban safety has occurred somewhat unexpectedly. That is the main lesson to be drawn from the pages of this book: urban policy integration."--pub. desc.
Author : Rajib Shaw,Atta-ur-Rahman,Akhilesh Surjan,Gulsan Ara Parvin
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780128023778
Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing countries that have high vulnerability and intensification. The book offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary approach to reducing the impact of disasters by examining specific evidence from events in these areas that can be used to develop best practices and increase urban resilience worldwide. As urban resilience is largely a function of resilient and resourceful citizens, building cities which are more resilient internally and externally can lead to more productive economic returns. In an era of rapid urbanization and increasing disaster risks and vulnerabilities in Asian cities, Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia is an invaluable tool for policy makers, researchers, and practitioners working in both public and private sectors. Explores a broad range of aspects of disaster and urban resiliency, including environmental, economic, architectural, and engineering factors Bridges the gap between urban resilience and rural areas and community building Provides evidence-based data that can lead to improved disaster resiliency in urban Asia Focuses on Asian cities, some of the most densely populated areas on the planet, where disasters are particularly devastating
Author : Federica Rosso,Donato Morea,Didit Okta Pribadi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031073816
This book thoroughly examines the aims of green urbanism, providing a perspective to help responding to the growing environmental challenges posed by the enormous increase in human needs. The book gives insights about architectural intervention in urban planning which provides green design strategies in a way that improves the efficiency of building in terms of energy consumption and environmental conservation. The book also gives attention to the paradigm of the `intermediate city’, thus, helping in overcoming the challenges posed by the growing urbanization process. Finally, the book gives a futuristic vision of cities, anticipating their challenges and providing possible solutions for them. The book targets a wide audience interested in implementing the SDG goals in energy and green urban planning, and those interested the interdisciplinary nature of green urbanization and alternative and renewable energy accommodates. The book is a culmination of selected research papers from the 4th version of the International Online Conference on Green Urbanism (GU) of Roma Tre University, Italy (2020) & the 3rd version of the International Online Conference on Alternative and Renewable Energy Quest (2020).
Author : Peter H. Liotta,David A. Mouat,W.G. Kepner,Judith Lancaster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402085512
Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now 1 2 ALAN D. HECHT AND P. H. LIOTTA * 1 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development 2 Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Salve Regina University 1. Nontraditional Threats to Security The events of September 11, 2001 have sharpened the debate over the meaning of being secure. Before 9/11 there were warnings in all parts of the world that social and environmental changes were occurring. While there was prosperity in North America and Western Europe, there was also increasing recognition that local and global effects of ecosystem degradation posed a serious threat. Trekking from Cairo to Cape Town thirty years after living in Africa as a young teacher, for example, travel writer Paul Theroux concluded that development in sub-Saharan Africa had failed to improve the quality of life for 300 million people: “Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it—hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can’t tell the politicians from the witch-doctors” (2002). While scholars and historians will debate the causes of 9/11 for some time, one message is clear: An often dizzying array of nontraditional threats and complex vulnerabilities define security today. We must understand them, and deal with them, or suffer the consequences. Environmental security has always required att- tion to nontraditional threats linked closely with social and economic well-being.
Author : Miguel Saraiva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031151088
This book provides an original cross-thematic and wide scope review of crime prevention processes in urban areas that are explicitly based on the cooperation between different scientific and professional fields. Focusing primarily on environmental and community-based crime prevention, this book compiles a peer-reviewed collection of papers and prospective essays that explore how, and to what extent, multi-disciplinarity can be used as a cornerstone for achieving safer cities. Relying on the input from specialists, researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners from around the world, it covers the various stages from theory to implementation, by discussing theoretical stances, interpreting policy and planning guidelines, uncovering unique educational experiences, and narrating insights and lessons learned from innovative research and practice. Hence, it provides vivid discussions and invaluable insights into processes of partnership building, planning, and management, oriented towards establishing successful mechanism for preventing crime and reducing feelings of insecurity in urban areas.