Determination of security aspects - methods for urban planners

This general information page is a summary overview of established methods assessed, useful to address culture, legal, ethics and social aspects in security-related urban planning. The methods listed below are linked to from relevant pages in Securipedia. The methods focus on a participatory process to covering security aspects of urban planning, involving and activating citizens, as well as following the idea of citizens' ownership of security.

This idea is central to the European Union's approach to security research and the concept of societal security. Moreover, citizen involvement is important to determine risk and security aspects to address in urban planning, and it is important to increase acceptance of urban planning decisions, their implementation, and the built environment they result in. This includes spatial risk information collection and management for municipalities (e.g. to allow local authorities to evaluate the risk of natural disasters in their municipality, in advance of planning, and in order to implement strategies for vulnerability reduction).