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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

Lessons learned on stakeholder engagement in radiation protection, and communication and dissemination of results from the radonorm project. [PDF]

Radiat Environ Biophys
Železnik N, Horvat B, John W, Schofield PN.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Explains the Organization of Electoral Management Bodies in the U. S. States?

The Annuals of Japanese Political Science Association, 2018
openaire   +2 more sources

URBAN CLIMATE GOVERNANCE AND THE UNEVENNESS OF CITY NETWORKS: The Trajectory and Perspectives of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in Chile

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have widely discussed integrating local administrations into climate governance networks, focusing on networks such as the Global Covenant of Mayors or C40, whose members are mostly in the European Union or countries of the global North and premium cities managed by engaged administrations. Relatively little is known about urban‐scale
Alejandra Irigoyen Rios, Rosa Lehmann
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting big data optimism: risks of data-driven black box algorithms for society. [PDF]

Ethics Inf Technol
Mahajan S, Helbing D.
europepmc   +1 more source

VISIBILITY IN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN SPACE: The (De)politicizing City and Grassroots Mobilizations in Russia

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding medical professionalism in Italy-welfare regimes, regulatory models, paths to medical professionalization/professionalism, and gender inclusion. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Spina E, Vicarelli MG.
europepmc   +1 more source

HOUSING RETROFIT AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN THE METROPOLIS: Governance, Redistribution, and Inequality in London and Barcelona

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato, Marc Martí‐Costa, Cecilia Conde López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding the vaccine hesitancy of COVID-19 in Benin. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Abdoulaye Alfa D, Le Hesran JY, Boko I, Agossou A, Atchadé A, Fiogbé M, Yovo E, Hounsa S, Massougbodji A, Cottrell G.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reducing carbon emissions in the healthcare sector: a real-time delphi on challenges and enablers. [PDF]

Glob Bioeth
de Maack V, Tubeuf S, Clavel N, Ethier I, Williams S, David PM, Dupras C.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source