Why a guide on urban disaster risk reduction for the Red Cross Red Crescent?
Rapid urbanization coupled with climate change will constitute key issues in the coming decades facing the humanitarian community. It is estimated that by 2050, 66 percent of the world’s population will be urban, while rapid and unplanned urbanization will also continue to see a dramatic rise in informal settlements. Currently, it is estimated that 863 million people live in informal settlements (i.e., squatter and slum settlements). This rapid rise in unplanned and poorly managed urbanization poses growing threats to people’s lives, livelihoods, economic growth, environmental sustainability and social equity as public authorities lack the capacity to effectively provide basic public services to a rapidly growing population.
Resource collections
- Climate emergency
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience
