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Residential Instability and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Children and Education Program: What We Know, Plus Gaps in Research [PDF]

, 2010
Reviews the literature on the effects of homelessness and residential instability on academic performance and describes the program designed to mitigate them.
Mary Cunningham, Robin Harwood, Sam Hall
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Framing Modern Slavery: Do Stakeholders Talk Past Each Other?

Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern slavery literature has thus far mostly adopted a downstream perspective, in the sense that researchers investigated corporate actors' responses after the enactment of transparency legislation. The common finding is that corporate disclosure is poor and ineffective, contributing to a failure to eradicate modern slavery.
Sylvain Durocher, Darlene Himick, Leigh Ellen Walsh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart, Bayan Abubakr, Beltina Gjeloshi, Dieter Pfoser   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19 in South Africa and the Containment of the Homeless, Drug, and Substance Users in Tshwane: A Gender Perspective

International Journal on Homelessness
To curb the spread of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) in response to the national lockdown, the City of Tshwane, supported by law enforcement agencies, involuntarily rounded up all people experiencing homelessness. The group, comprising around
Newman Tekwa, Jennifer Makhubela
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Ngos' Contributions to Innovation: Innovation Enablers or Lead Innovators?

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how non‐governmental organisations (NGOs) engage with innovation processes. Drawing on a comparative case study of two NGOs working in water sustainability, the paper analyses NGO involvement across seven stages of the innovation process.
Maria Cristina Pietronudo, Lorenza Claudio, Chiara Cannavale, Marco Ferretti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social Policy Trends: First Admissions to Homeless Shelters

The School of Public Policy Publications, 2021
People who use emergency homeless shelters this month are not necessarily the same people who will use them next month.
Ali Jadidzadeh, Ronald Kneebone
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Minimising flood risk accumulation through effective private and public sector engagement [PDF]

, 2013
Flooding is a global problem affecting both developing and developed countries. Academics and practitioners in climate science frequently argue that changing climatic conditions are likely to worsen the length and severity of these flood events, which ...
Amaratunga, RDG, Ingirige, MJB
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Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Christia Meidiana, Abdelkader Anouzla, Faissal Aziz, Imran Ali, Joan Cecilia C. Casila, M. Imran Khan, Dongdong Zhang, Meihui Jiang, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Md Munir Hayet Khan, Kasun Kumara Dissanayake   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

A hierarchical mathematical model of the earthquake shelter location-allocation problem solved using an interleaved MPSO–GA

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2019
Earthquake disaster management involves determining locations in which to construct shelters and how to allocate the affected population to them. A multi-objective, hierarchical mathematical model, allied with an interleaved modified particle swarm ...
Xiujuan Zhao, Graham Coates, Wei Xu
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Pathways to and from Homelessness: Women and Children in Chicago Shelters [PDF]

, 2004
For the past several years, the number of women and children seeking shelter from the City of Chicago's Department of Human Services (CDHS) during the warm weather months has far exceeded the supply of shelter beds.
Jody Raphael, Lise McKean, Rebekah Levin
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