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REPORTS, GUIDES, DECLARATIONS and more...
Browse through UN-HABITAT’s library of reports, resolutions, declarations, training materials and best practices, by theme, or view them alphabetically and chronologically |
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Urban Patterns for Sustainable Development: Towards a Green Economy |
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Citizens, governments and the United Nations increasingly are embracing a new paradigm for development: the Green Economy. Proponents seek to develop their economies along pathways of higher, more equitable growth at lower carbon, energy and resource intensity. The Green Economy is pro-growth and pro-jobs, as well as pro-environment.
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Seminar Report (UP) Strengthening climate change in planning education |
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Universities can help cities solve their complex problems and realize their development potential. In
many countries, however, the research and training priorities of universities are not in line with the
emerging priorities for sustainable urban development. At the same time, the findings of university
researches are not usually disseminated amongst practitioners, and the knowledge acquired by
university staff is rarely mainstreamed in the university curricula, and thus future urban practitioners
are not sufficiently exposed to these key issues.
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Some Considerations on Water and Climate Change Impacts - St. Louis, Senegal |
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This document is a product of the Shelter Initiative. The Shelter Initiative is a partnership between UN-HABITAT and the ARCADIS company which started in March 2010 around a common goal: to improve the quality of life inrapidly growing cities around the world.
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Workshop on Climate Change and Urban Planning, Rotterdam, 28-30 May 2009 |
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The Workshop on Climate Change and Urban Planning, held in Rotterdam, 28-30 May 2009 brought together participants representing planning universities and planning professionals. The objectives of the workshop were: (1) to reach a common understanding on how better urban planning and design can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, especially in the Developing Countries context, (2) to agree on how best to equip urban planners and related professionals, especially in developing countries to deal with climate change and to conceptualize the core elements of a toolbox and (3) to reach a common understanding on how urban planning and design schools can better address climate change as an integral part of their curricula.
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UN-HABITAT Universities Round Table Report. Rio de Janeiro, March 2010 |
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The world has urbanised. Over half of the world’s population now live in urban areas and 90 per cent of the growth is occurring in the developing world, with 70 per cent of the world’s population forecast to live in urban areas by 2050. The UN Millennium Development Goals provide benchmarks for progress on poverty which is a fundamental urban issue.
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Executive Summary of Feasibility Study for a Global Urban Research Umbrella |
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UN-HABITAT proposes to support the building of an international urban research network bringing together Habitat Partner University members and other interested parties.A major objective of this network is to significantly contribute to the generation of urban knowledge relevant for the future development of human settlements and to facilitate its accessibility to the key stakeholders. Its vision is to become a global key source of reference for urban innovation, a laboratory generating and exchanging new urban ideas within a vibrant learning environment.
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Operationalizing and Developing the Habitat Partner University Initiative |
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This is a summary of the final report of a consultancy study commissioned by UN-HABITAT in order to further articulate the next phase in the development of the Habitat Partner University Initiative. The method used in the study is largely based on interviews with a number of selected university representatives and UN-Habitat staff.
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UN-HABITAT Universities Round Table Report. Nanjing, November 2008 |
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At the 4th session of the World Urban Forum, to be held on 3-6 November 2008 in Nanjing, China, a Round Table event will be dedicated to the role of universities in pursuing sustainable urban development. This event is expected to further outline and create a road map for UN-HABITAT’s future engagement on education and sustainable urban development. The purpose of this paper is to introduce issues for discussion at the Round Table.
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Evaluation of the Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum, 2010 |
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This report presents the evaluation results of the Fifth Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF5) which took place in 22 – 26 March in Rio de Janiero, Brazil. The evaluation was conducted by the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit (M&E Unit) of UN-Habitat. The evaluation sought to address two broad questions thus how and to what extent did WUF5 contribute to positive outcomes and how conducive was the planning, programming, management and delivery for achieving the outcomes of the forum. A mixed methods approach was applied for this evaluation that covered the pre-session, during and after phases. To gather data for this evaluation, a review of documents, on site observations, interviews before, during and after and participant survey questionnaire were used.
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Urban Patterns for Sustainable Development: Towards a Green Economy