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xiv<br />

Enhancing Urban Safety and Security<br />

PART III<br />

SECURITY OF TENURE<br />

Introducti<strong>on</strong> 111<br />

5 Security of Tenure: C<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s and Trends 114<br />

Types of Tenure 115<br />

Customary tenure arrangements 117<br />

What Is Security of Tenure? 117<br />

Measuring security of tenure 119<br />

Realities underlying tenure insecurity 120<br />

Scale and Impacts of Tenure Insecurity 121<br />

Scale and Impacts of Evicti<strong>on</strong>s 123<br />

Forced evicti<strong>on</strong>s 124<br />

Market-based evicti<strong>on</strong>s 126<br />

Expropriati<strong>on</strong> and compulsory acquisiti<strong>on</strong> 126<br />

Major causes of large-scale evicti<strong>on</strong>s 127<br />

Infrastructure projects 128<br />

Internati<strong>on</strong>al mega events 129<br />

Urban beautificati<strong>on</strong> 129<br />

Groups Particularly Vulnerable to Tenure Insecurity 130<br />

The urban poor 131<br />

Tenants 131<br />

Women 132<br />

Other vulnerable and disadvantaged groups 133<br />

Security of Tenure in the Aftermath of Disasters and Armed C<strong>on</strong>flict 133<br />

Disasters and secure tenure 133<br />

C<strong>on</strong>flict, peace-building and security of tenure 134<br />

The Growing Acceptance of the ‘Informal City’ 134<br />

C<strong>on</strong>cluding Remarks 135<br />

Notes 136<br />

6 Policy Resp<strong>on</strong>ses to Tenure Insecurity 137<br />

Upgrading and Regularizati<strong>on</strong> 137<br />

Limits of community-based upgrading and regularizati<strong>on</strong> 140<br />

Titling and Legalizati<strong>on</strong> 140<br />

Land Administrati<strong>on</strong> and Registrati<strong>on</strong> 143<br />

Legal Protecti<strong>on</strong> from Forced Evicti<strong>on</strong> 145<br />

Addressing Violati<strong>on</strong>s of Security of Tenure Rights 148<br />

Civil Society Resp<strong>on</strong>ses to Security of Tenure and Froced Evicti<strong>on</strong>s 151<br />

Resp<strong>on</strong>se of Internati<strong>on</strong>al Organizati<strong>on</strong>s to Tenure Insecurity and Forced Evicti<strong>on</strong>s 152<br />

Security of Tenure and <strong>Human</strong> Rights: Examples from South Africa, Brazil and India 154<br />

South Africa 154<br />

Brazil 156<br />

India 157<br />

C<strong>on</strong>cluding Remarks 158<br />

Notes 159<br />

PART IV<br />

NATURAL AND HUMAN-MADE DISASTERS<br />

Introducti<strong>on</strong> 163<br />

7 Disaster Risk: C<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s, Trends and Impacts 167<br />

Disaster Terminology 167<br />

The Scale of Disasters 168<br />

Urbanizati<strong>on</strong> and Disaster Risk 169<br />

Incidence of Natural and <strong>Human</strong>-Made Disasters 172

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