Internet Resources  

United Nations ressources

"World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 Revision" (Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations Secretariat)
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wup2003/2003WUPHighlights.pdf

"The State of the World's Cities" Report 2008/2009
http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=2562

Urban 21
http://www.habitatforum.org/reports/urban21/index.htm, http://urban21.unlv.edu/

UN Human Settlements Programme
http://www.unhabitat.org/

Publications Catalogue
http://www.unhabitat.org/register/shop.asp

United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS)
http://www.unchs.org/

Sustainable Cities Programme: a joint UNCHS (UN Centre for Human Settlements) and UNEP (UN Environment Programme) programme
http://www.unchs.org/scp/:

Best Practices for Human Settlements
http://www.bestpractices.org/ :

Istanbul +5
http://ww2.unhabitat.org/istanbul%2B5/index.htm
   Istanbul + 5 - Special Session of the UN General Assembly for an Overall Review and Appraisal of the Implementation of the Habitat Agenda, New York 6-8 June 2001

"Earth Summit" 1992
http://www.un.org/geninfo/bp/enviro.html:
   UN Conference on Environment and Development - "The Earth Summit" - 3-14 June 1992, Rio de Janeiro

"World Summit on Sustainable Development" 2002, Johannesburg , S.A.
http://www.earthsummit2002.org/:
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
http://www.unep.org/

United Nations Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wup2001/wup2001dh.pdf:
The "World Urbanization Prospects: The 2001 Revision, Data Tables and Highlights" (pdf)

MOST Urban Issues: Urban development and governance
http://www.unesco.org/most/most2.htm

Other scientific institutions, initiatives and projects

International Geographical Union / Union Géographique Internationale
http://www.igu-net.org/

Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative
http://www.emi-megacities.org

Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado
http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/
The Hazards literature data base
http://ibs.colorado.edu/hazards/library/hazlit/NatHazSearch.php

Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/index.html
Professor Peter Taylor (with research focus: World Cities/Globalization)
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb5.html
The World according to GaWC: map of the new metageography
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/citymap.html
GaWC: Globalization and World Cities
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/

Centre for Urban Technology
http://www.acturban.org/biennial/doc_planners/cut_welcome.htm

University of Michigan
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdcamp/UP650,links.html:
links to urban and planning topics

Policy Integration & Industrial Transformation towards Sustainable Urban Energy Use for Cities in Asia: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
http://www.iges.or.jp/

World Health Organization (WHO)
http://www.who.int/en
with http://www.who.int/library:
WHO Library and information networks

Worldbank
http://www.worldbank.org/:
some projects to 'global cities'

Home of Geography / Maison de la G éographie
http://www.homeofgeography.org

Radix - Radical Interpretations of Disaster
http://www.radixonline.org/

Megacities Foundation
http://www.megacities.nl/

The International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives
http://www.iclei.org/:
International action for local initiatives.

The European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign
http://www.sustainable-cities.eu/

GTZ Pilot Project "Rio+10"
http://www.gtz.de/rioplus/

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