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PROTOCOL: Studies of the effectiveness of interventions to improve the welfare of those affected by, and at risk of, homelessness in high‐income countries: An evidence and gap map

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2020
Homelessness – people living on the street, in temporary accommodation, or at risk of losing their homes – is a persistent problem across the developed world. Policies and programmes to tackle homelessness should be informed by evidence of effectiveness.
Howard White   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

RESEÑA. ECOFEMINISMO Y DECRECIMIENTO, VICTORIA ARAGÓN GARCÍA

open access: yesAsparkía, 2023
Reseña del libro de Victoria Aragón García Ecofeminismo y decrecimiento, publicado en Madrid por la editorial Catarata en 2022.
Carmen Poblete Trichilet
doaj   +1 more source

A New European Settlement Map From Optical Remotely Sensed Data

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2016
An application of a general methodology for processing very high-resolution imagery to produce a European Settlement Map (ESM) in support of policy-makers is presented. The process mapped around 10 million km2 of the European continent.
Aneta Jadwiga Florczyk   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessment of the Added-Value of Sentinel-2 for Detecting Built-up Areas

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2016
Monitoring of the human-induced changes and the availability of reliable and methodologically consistent urban area maps are essential to support sustainable urban development on a global scale.
Martino Pesaresi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Image Enhancement and Feature Extraction Based on Low-Resolution Satellite Data

open access: yesIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of contrast-based textural measurements and morphological characteristics that derive from high-resolution satellite imagery (three-band SPOT-5) when diverse image enhancements techniques are ...
Vasileios Syrris   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A New Method for Earth Observation Data Analytics Based on Symbolic Machine Learning

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2016
This work introduces a new classification method in the remote sensing domain, suitably adapted to dealing with the challenges posed by the big data processing and analytics framework.
Martino Pesaresi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Global Solution to a Global Refugee Crisis

open access: yesEuropean Papers, 2016
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(1), 93-99 | On the Agenda | (Table of Contents) I. The Refugee Convention's commitment to self-sufficiency. - II. The ground reality of dependency. - III.
James C. Hathaway
doaj   +1 more source

Global coronavirus pandemic crisis and future crisis prevention [PDF]

open access: yesPanoeconomicus, 2021
This paper undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of the global coronavirus crisis of 2020-2021, its immediate aftermath and lessons learned, through the use of some core principles of institutional and evolutionary political economy.
O’Hara Phillip Anthony
doaj   +1 more source

Global Health and the Global Economic Crisis

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2011
Although the resources and knowledge for achieving improved global health exist, a new, critical paradigm on health as an aspect of human development, human security, and human rights is needed. Such a shift is required to sufficiently modify and credibly reduce the present dominance of perverse market forces on global health.
Solomon R, Benatar   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Towards an automated monitoring of human settlements in South Africa using high resolution SPOT satellite imagery [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa are growing at an unprecedented pace. Much of this growth is taking place in informal settlements. In South Africa more than 10% of the population live in urban informal settlements.
T. Kemper   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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