Urban Humanitarian Crisis: UN-HABITAT In disaster and conflict contexts
With global urbanisation more crises are occurring in cities. There is an increasing recognition that preventing and responding to urban crises is fundamentally different from rural contexts. This brochure introduces the issues that ought to be considered in constructing resilient cities and approaches for achieving this. It also highlights UN-HABITAT's expertise in preventing and responding to urban humanitarian crisis settlement planning and using a global map shows samples of UN-HABITAT urban preparedness and crisis response activities. Other brochures in human crisis settlement planning include:
