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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.ABSTRACT Migration is increasingly recognised as an adaptive strategy to enhance social resilience amid environmental and socioeconomic stressors. However, systematic assessments of its impact on both migrants and their households remain limited. This study applies the translocal social resilience framework to analyse migration outcomes across origin ...
Coline Garcia +3 more
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Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.Unsanitary waste practices in developing countries increase disease risks by 2.1–3.1 times. This review demonstrates that integrating waste pickers, enforcing policies, and investing in circular systems can reduce health burdens by 30–50%, offering a clear path toward sustainable urban health.
Ashenafi Woldemichael Woime
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GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo, 2018 O território ganense possui uma rica variedade de recursos minerais – como ouro, manganês, bauxita e diamantes – que tem sido explorada por grandes corporações estrangeiras desde o final do século XX, quando o país executou reformas neoliberais.
Kauê Lopes dos Santos
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The Plural Lives of E‐Waste: Valuation and Contestation in Accra's Recycling Network(s)
The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Electronic waste (e‐waste) in Accra is shown to be plural and ontologically multiple, enacted as livelihood, commodity, hazard, governance object and political actor across dispersed recycling networks. Using a multi‐sited, follow‐the‐thing approach and 60 interviews, I specify four socio‐material mechanisms (i.e., copper's market tempo,
Ebenezer Gyampoh Amoah
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Informal Women's Work in Public Spaces: Why Should It Matter?
Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 756-767, May 2026.ABSTRACT Informal women's work in public spaces is central to livelihoods and social dynamics in cities of the Global South. For decades, public spaces have functioned as vital sites of economic activity, particularly for women engaged in informal work.
Philipa Birago Akuoko, Michèle Amacker
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Engineering Solutions for Ghana E-Waste Problems
, 2021 The Engineering Solutions for Ghana E-Waste Problems MQP provides a grinder to pulverize electronic waste in Agbogbloshie, a scrap yard in Ghana. Ghanaian expertise guided the project’s focus on manufacturing and sustainable maintenance.
Handel, Lauren M., Strazdus, Sarah M.
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Public Administration and Development, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 93-103, February 2026.ABSTRACT In its quest for development, Ghana must address socioeconomic challenges not of its own making, use resources it does not have, and apply externally imposed technocratic knowledge‐based solutions largely incompatible with Ghanaians' lived experience.
Jessica Kritz, Peter F. Haruna
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A Path Through Landscapes of Waste
RiCognizioni, 2015 This contribution suggests a parallel analysis of the debut works of two post-colonial African writers, A.K. Armah and A. La Guma, inscribed within the recent trend labelled 'literature of waste'. Scrutinised through ecocritical and sociological theories,
Chiara Giobergia
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Geology Today, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 15-26, January/February 2026.With the transition to a low carbon future and increasing technological applications, the global demand for metals will continue to rise into the foreseeable future. However, primary ore deposits are finite, and to continue production, lower grade and more complex ore deposits need to be discovered, evaluated and exploited, with increasing exploration ...
Duncan Pirrie +6 more
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Electronic waste trade and "sustainability" in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana. At the end of a supply chain? [PDF]
, 2018 The rapid increase in the production and consumption of electrical and electronic equipment has resulted in high volumes of electronic waste and its associated trade from the Global North to the Global South. In the Global South, there is often little or
Beecham, Hazel
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