From unsustainable to Inclusive Cities

This volume brings together a series of eight papers arising from UNRISD research activities during the years 2000–2001 concerned with governance aspects of urban sustainable development in developing countries.1 These activities included the Network Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South (N–AERUS) 2000 Workshop in Geneva, Cities of the South: Sustainable for Whom?, Geneva 2000 (the five-year review of the World Summit for Social Development) and Istanbul+5 (the five- year review of Habitat II).

• Chapter 1

Promoting Environmentalism, Participation and Sustainable Human Development in Cities of Southeast Asia

Adrian Atkinson

• Chapter 2 Sustainable Urban Development in India: An Inclusive Perspective Darshini Mahadevia
• Chapter 3 Metropolization and the Ecological Crisis: Precarious Settlements in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Sebastian Wust, Jean-Claude Bolay and Thai Thu Ngoc Du
• Chapter 4 Sustainable Development in an Urban Tanzanian Context

Batilda Burian and Alphonce T. Kyariga

• Chapter 5

Unsustainable Development: The Philippine Experience Karina Constantino-David Contents

• Chapter 6

Sustainable Development and Democracy in the Megacities Jaime Joseph

• Chapter 7 Alliances in International Co-operation: A Change of Paradigm in Urban Governance? Isabelle Milbert
• Chapter 8 Sustainable Development for Urban Poor: Applying a Human Rights Approach to the Problem David Westendorff