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‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
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Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances research on policy accumulation by analyzing its political consequences in the French housing sector. It argues that, in the context of decentralization reforms, the accumulation of policy instruments has undermined national steering capacities and intensified territorial inequalities.
Francesco Findeisen, Patrick Le Galès
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Simultaneous Generation of Topographic Models and Manning Roughness Coefficient Maps From Tri‐Stereoscopic Satellite Images: Application to the Huarmey River, Peru

The Photogrammetric Record, Volume 41, Issue 195, July‐September 2026.
Tri‐stereoscopic PeruSat‐1 imagery enables the simultaneous generation of 0.70 m‐resolution topography and spatially distributed Manning roughness maps, achieving 0.434 m vertical accuracy. Integrated into HEC‐RAS, these products provide consistent, high‐resolution inputs that improve hydraulic modelling and flood risk assessment in data‐scarce river ...
Jorge L. Miranda‐Pita, Pedro A. Plaza‐Álvarez, Jorge Lopez‐Rebollo, Diego González‐Aguilera   +3 more
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Urbanization Tools between Planning and Reality: the Case of M'sila's Land Occupancy Plan [PDF]

Cinq Continents, 2018
Les instruments d'urbanisme entre planification et réalité: cas du plan d'occupation du sol de la ville de M'sila. Dans la dernière décennie, les villes Algériennes ont connu un développement urbanistique rapide suite à plusieurs facteurs, parmi ces ...
Hadji ABDELKADER, Felloussia LAHCENE
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Metropolitan areas, environmental quality, and talent: Inter‐urban migration of higher education students in Canada, 2019–2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, Volume 70, Issue 3, Autumn / automne 2026.
Abstract This study analyzes the inter‐urban migration of approximately 154,000 higher education students within 17 Canadian census metropolitan areas in the academic year prior to the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic (2019–2020). Using novel linked data from alternative sources, we applied linear regression and standard cross‐classified multilevel ...
Ebenezer D. Narh, Michael Buzzelli
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LA PERCEPTION DES DYSFONCTIONNEMENTS DU DÉVELOPPEMENT URBAIN VUE PAR LES HABITANTS DE BATNA (ALGÉRIE) [PDF]

Revue Roumaine de Géographie, 2014
Perception of dysfunctions in the urban development view of Batna inhabitants (Algeria). The study aims to describe how the people of Batna feel urban dysfunction. Inspired by the approach of Veolia Observatory on urban lifestyles, this study is based on
BENYAHIA LAMIA, DRIDI HADDA, NACEUR FARIDA   +2 more
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Gares routières informelles et structuration spatiale à Daloa (Centre-Ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire) [PDF]

Akofena
Résumé : Le processus d’urbanisation de la ville de Daloa se caractérise par des problèmes d’aménagement et de gestion de l’espace. Ces problèmes apparaissent dans l’espace urbain avec le développement de gares routières informelles. Lesquelles gares ont
Atsé Laudose Miguel ELEAZARUS & Lohoua Flavient DAGO
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How “visible” is urban agriculture in Cameroon? Mapping urban agriculture practices by satellite imagery and field surveys

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, Volume 70, Issue 3, Autumn / automne 2026.
Abstract Urban agriculture (UA), although promoted in numerous sustainability agendas, has been ignored in public policies of many African countries. This study evaluates the effectiveness of interviews and mapping techniques for characterizing UA and facilitating informed decision making at the local level.
Paul Emile Tchinda, Thi‐Thanh‐Hiên Pham   +1 more
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Le logement social urbain et la dynamique spatiale. Stratégie des acteurs décideurs à Oran (1990-2000)

إنسانيات, 2005
Le constat établi depuis plus d’une décennie, sur la ville d’Oran, fait état d’un mouvement de développement urbain assez intense. Cette dynamique urbaine bien que périphérique se caractérise par une production massive de logements.
Aïmène Said
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Marécages, une pollution par essence? Conditions d'une écopoétique des marais et autres zones humides au XXe siècle

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 81, Issue 3, Page 271-280, June 2026.
Abstract To expose the pollution of marshes and swamps, whether by hydrocarbons or other contaminants, the French or Francophone author of the twentieth century must first confront a literary tradition that equates stagnant water with a volatile poison and, more broadly, wetlands with toxic environments. In his article “Wetland Gloom and Wetland Glory,”
François Sagot
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