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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Resilience of a Coastal Wetland to Relative Sea-level Rise for a Native American Tribe in Louisiana - Comparing Biophysical Prediction and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. [PDF]

Estuaries Coast
San Antonio KM, Wu W, Bethel MB.
europepmc   +1 more source

REPRODUCING OPERATIONAL LANDSCAPES: The Rock Mining for Indonesia's New Capital City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Indonesia's new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is coming into being. Using the sociospatial theory of planetary urbanization, we trace the dialectical relationship between the new city and sites beyond it to show how ...
Bosman Batubara, Kei Otsuki, Femke Van Noorloos, Michelle Kooy, Annelies Zoomers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A global assessment of coastal vulnerability and dominant contributors. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Basnayake V, Duong TM, Ranasinghe R, Almar R, Wijnberg KM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris, Chryssanthi Petropoulou, Mara Zacharaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate resilient adaptation of coastal amenities for wellbeing. [PDF]

Camb Prism Coast Futur
Lyddon C.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
wiley   +1 more source

Underwater cultural heritage and extreme events: Storm impacts under climate change. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Germinario L, McLelland SJ, Mazzoli C.
europepmc   +1 more source

300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth, Blaise Bullimore, Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Benjamin L. H. Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Erosion of Amazonian mangroves over peatlands leads to soil carbon loss. [PDF]

PeerJ
Bernardino AF, Rodrigues VLA, Vassoler A, Coppo GC, Pacheco CFO, Gaurisas DY, Cohen MCL, Mello FAO, Cherubin MR, Ferreira TO.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source