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Rapid Urbanisation and Security: Holistic Approach to Enhancing Security of Urban Spaces

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Rapid urbanisation, particularly driven by rural-urban migration, can pose a wide range of security challenges in the global south and global north. The management of such a transition, in terms of the provision of social goods and quality of life raises significant challenges. Security of contemporary urban environments has become more complex due to a greater range of risk drivers, many of which can be exacerbated by the observed and portended impacts of climate change. This chapter outlines the phenomena underlying the transition to urbanisation – and the security challenges that have been exacerbated by these transitions. In doing so this work a holistic approach to security and highlights a gradual trend in the increased securitisation of issues (such as climate change) that in the past were not considered part of typical ‘security’ dialogues. It also introduces a decision support framework that can aid a broad range of stakeholders in making decisions about the enhancement of security of urban spaces in a context of multiple threats exacerbated by these new security challenges.

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    Ksenia Chmutina & Lee Bosher

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  1. Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  2. Department of War Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

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  3. Department of War Studies, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

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Chmutina, K., Bosher, L. (2017). Rapid Urbanisation and Security: Holistic Approach to Enhancing Security of Urban Spaces. In: Dover, R., Dylan, H., Goodman, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Security, Risk and Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53675-4_2

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