2134/26566 Ksenia Chmutina Ksenia Chmutina Lee Bosher Lee Bosher Rapid urbanisation and security: Holistic approach to enhancing security of urban spaces Loughborough University 2017 untagged Built Environment and Design not elsewhere classified 2017-09-20 13:07:58 Chapter https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/chapter/Rapid_urbanisation_and_security_Holistic_approach_to_enhancing_security_of_urban_spaces/9459098 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.