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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
The work of UNFPA encompasses a wide range of issues (see
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In the rural environment, land fragmentation, eroded
slopes and degraded soils are contributing to poverty, hunger and migration.
The unplanned rapid growth of cities, fed partly
by migrants from rural areas, is creating intense pressure on local
ecosystems and has, in some cases, overwhelmed environmental resources.
Millions have settled in slums and shantytowns without adequate shelter
and basic services, including clean water and sanitation.
Migration is a significant contributor to urbanization,
as people move in search of social and economic opportunity.
Environmental degradation and conflict may drive people off the land.
Often people who leave the countryside to find better lives in the city
have no choice but to settle in shantytowns and slums, where they lack
access to decent housing and sanitation, health care and education—in
effect, trading in rural for urban poverty.
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United
Nations Organization - Department of Economic and Social Affairs
- Population Division
World Population
Policies 2009
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series 2010 |
From UN-HABITAT CITIES WITHOUT
SLUMS:
Sub-Regional Programme for
Eastern and Southern Africa
Situation Analysis of Informal Settlements in
Kampala -
2007
Kampala is both the administrative and
commercial
capital city of Uganda situated on about 24 low hills
that are surrounded by wetland valleys, characterized
by an imprint of scattered unplanned settlements. This
urban form is attributed to the dualism, which arose
between the local Kibuga and Kampala Township or
Municipality. The former was largely unplanned and
unsanitary while the latter was fully planned and highly
controlled. The emergency of slums in Kampala City
has been gradual and sustained over a long period of
time. It is attributed to the failure of Kampala Structure
Plans to cater for the growth and development of
African neighbours. Other factors that have contributed
to this growth include: the rapid urban population
growth, which has overwhelmed city authorities; land
tenure systems which are complicated and multiple,
together with poverty and low incomes amongst the
urban population.
PART I BACKGROUND
PART II PRIORITY ISSUES
PART III SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
PART IV POLICY AND LEGAL ENVIRONMENT
PART V INSTITUTIONAL ACTORS AND WAY
FORWARD BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACTION PLANS
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From
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
State of the World Population 2009
How do population dynamics affect greenhouse gases and climate change?
Will urbanization and an ageing population help or hinder efforts to
adapt to a warming world? And could better reproductive health care and
improved relations between women and men make a difference in the fight
against climate change? Find the answers in the State of World
Population 2009.
The whole world has been talking about carbon credits, carbon trading
and emissions targets. But not enough has been said about the people
whose activities contribute to those emissions or about those who will
be most affected by climate change, especially women.
The climate-change debate needs to be reframed, putting people at the
centre. Unless climate policies take people into account, they will
fail to mitigate climate change or to shield vulnerable populations
from the potentially disastrous impacts.
Previous Years' Reports
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From
"State of the World Population 2004",
UNFPA
The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and The
Global Effort to End Poverty
Migration
and Urbanisation
During the past ten years, migration has increased, both within and
between countries, and the phenomenon has grown in political importance.
Recognizing that orderly migration can have positive consequences on
both sending and receiving countries, the ICPD Programme of Action
(Chapters IX and X) called for a comprehensive approach to managing
migration. It emphasized both the rights and well-being of migrants and
the need for international support to assist affected countries and
promote more interstate cooperation around the issue.
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U.S.
Census Bureau
Population
Clocks
Total Middyear
Population of the World. 1950-2050
Country Rankings
Largest
countries for any year, 1950 to 2050.
World
Population Information
Global
population trends, links to historical population estimates, population
clocks, and estimates of population, births, and deaths occurring each
year, day, hour, or second.
Historical
Estimates of World Population (-10000-1950 |
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and Development/United Nations |
| WORLD POPULATION
GROWTH (chart) |
From the World Bank database
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 415
Facets of Globalization. International and
local dimensions of
development
S. Yusuf, S. Evenett and J. Wei, editors
October 2001
The chapters in this volume underscore the transformative role of globalization
and urbanization, and show the interplay between these
forces.
Trade reform and liberalized foreign investment regimes have
contributed to the spatial reallocation of economic activity toward
cities, especially those cities that can attract and nurture human
capital and strong connections to other markets.
Global factors have, therefore, reinforced agglomeration economies in
shifting economic clout toward cities, and in so doing they may be
exacerbating regional disparities in incomes.
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Cities
Alliance Annual Reports
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