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Global Atlas of Excreta, Wastewater Sludge, and Biosolids Management
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It is crystal clear that, in addition to clean air, the well-being of our planet also requires that water, wastewater and the resulting biosolids (sludge) need to be managed more seriously, and in a focused, coordinated and cooperative manner.

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Themes: Urban Economy and Finance
Target Countries:
Branch/Office: Urban Finance Section

ISBN: 978-92-1-132009-1
HS Nr: HS/1030/08E
Year: 2008
Pages: 632

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Housing for All: The Challenges of Affordability,Accessibility and Sustainability
View Details for this PublicationThis report provides a comprehensive review of the challenges for low and moderate income housing. It focuses on the issues of affordability, accessibility and sustainability in resolving the housing problem. It looks at both formal and informal inst...
Themes: Urban Economy and Finance
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Branch/Office: Urban Finance Section

ISBN: 978-92-1-131992-7
HS Nr: HS/1012/08
Year: 2008
Pages: 104

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Price: $10
Housing Finance Mechanisms in India
View Details for this PublicationIndia is home to over 1.1 billion people. With about one in every sixth person in the world living in India, housing perforce assumes significant importance. Successive Indian governments have regarded housing as a primary need of the people. The nee...
Themes: Urban Economy and Finance
Target Countries:India
Branch/Office: Urban Finance Section

ISBN: 978-92-1-131970-5
HS Nr: HS/988/08E
Year: 2008
Pages: 69

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Municipal Finance and Urban Development
View Details for this PublicationMunicipal Finance of Urban Development was prepared as a background paper for the UN-Habitat Global Report 2005: Financing Urban Shelter and a summary was included as Chapter 3 of the Global Report under the title: “Municipal Finance: Conditions and ...
Themes: Urban development and management
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ISBN: 978-92-113-1914-9
HS Nr: HS/938/07E
Year: 2008
Pages: 148

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Price: $15
Anchoring Homes
View Details for this PublicationRebuilding personal and collective confidences through a participatory process takes time, especially amidst the massive personal tragedy of lost loved ones, personal assets and livelihoods. This photo and film documentation is testimony of all that ...
Themes: Natural and man-made disasters
Target Countries:Indonesia
Branch/Office: Regional and Technical Cooperation Division

ISBN: 978-92-113-1910-1
HS Nr: HS/933/07E
Year: 2007
Pages: 134

Price: $25
Housing and Urban Upgrading in Yantai
View Details for this PublicationThis report examines the housing problems in China about two decades ago. It describes the miracle China has made in the field of housing and urban development in the face of such a rapid urbanization. It illustrates how China achieve such a great ac...
Themes: Urban Economy and Finance
Target Countries:China
Branch/Office: Urban Finance Section

ISBN: 978-92-113-1923-1
HS Nr: HS/947/07E
Year: 2007
Pages: 115

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Participatory Budgeting in Africa - A Training Companion
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Introduction of participatory budgeting can be a sound vehicle in realizing good governance and fighting poverty. It is a mechanism that involves elected leaders, public officials, service providers, and non-state actors – civil society, private s...

Themes: Training and capacity building
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Branch/Office: Training and Capacity Building

ISBN: 978-92-1-131954-5
HS Nr: HS/971/08E
Year: 2008
Pages: 184

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Price: $15
Tomorrow’s Crises Today: the humanitarian impact of urbanisation
View Details for this PublicationThis photo book focuses on different humanitarian problems facing the urban poor by taking illustrations from different cities around the world. We cover a range of ills that affect the urban poor such as the lack of decent housing, water, work, sani...
Themes: Social Inclusion
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ISBN: 978-92-113-1964-4
HS Nr: HS/965/07E
Year: 2007
Pages: 112

Price: $20
Enhancing Urban Safety and Security - Global Report on Human Settlements 2007
View Details for this PublicationEnhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with re...
Themes: General, Information and Monitoring, Social Inclusion
Target Countries:
Branch/Office: Policy Analysis

ISBN: 978-1-84407-475-4
HS Nr: HS/943/07E
Year: 2007
Pages: 448

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Price: $50
State of the World’s Cities 2006/7
View Details for this PublicationIt is generally assumed that urban populations are healthier, more literate and more prosperous than rural populations. However, UN-HABITAT’s State of the World’s Cities Report 2006/7 has broken new ground by showing that the urban poor suffer from a...
ISBN: 92/1/131811-4
HS Nr: HS/814/06E
Year: 2006
Pages: 204

Themes: Information and Monitoring
Target Countries:
Branch/Office: Monitoring Systems
Price: $35
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