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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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Urban Microfarms: Hot or Cold Spots for Plants and Soil Biodiversity?
Investigation of soil and plant biodiversity in urban microfarms on the ground and on rooftops. ABSTRACT Urban agriculture plays a key role in urban ecosystems functionality and resilience, and can take many forms: allotment gardens, community garden or urban microfarms.
Sophie Joimel +9 more
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Green Housing = Improved Health: A Winning Combination [PDF]
The case studies in this paper explore the relationship between housing and health. It explains how building affordable green housing provides health benefits to low-income residentsand it identifies the benefits of green housing for the environment and ...
Noreen Beatley
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ABSTRACT Urban agriculture (UA) in slums represents a vital yet under‐researched strategy for enhancing food security and community resilience in marginalised urban areas. This systematic review of 104 studies reveals stark contrasts in theoretical approaches: Global North scholarship frames UA through lenses of racial capitalism and gentrification ...
Silva Namalwa, Yan Tan, Jungho Suh
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Sensor based dataset to assess the impact of urban heat island effect mitigation and indoor thermal comfort via terrace gardens. [PDF]
Visvanathan G +3 more
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ABSTRACT Aim To explore the key knowledge, skills, attributes and organisational support that nurses require to optimise their scope of practice when providing care to people experiencing homelessness. Design A qualitative descriptive study exploring nurses' scope of practice for addressing health needs of people experiencing homelessness.
Olivia Hollingdrake +4 more
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SuDSlab: Delivering Real‐Time Data on Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)
ABSTRACT Sustainably managing water is a global issue, with rapid land use change, climate change and ageing infrastructure increasing the risk of flooding. To help mitigate against and manage urban flood risk, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), along with Low Impact Development (LID), Sponge Cities and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), have been ...
Wm. Alexander Osborne +2 more
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Resilience and vulnerabilities of urban food environments in the Asia‐Pacific region
This paper highlights the dynamic changes in urban food environments in the Asia Pacific. Whilst modern retail food outlets are increasing, wet markets and informal food outlets, including street foods, continue to play an important role in nutrition and food security.
Emily Rousham +7 more
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Bothy busi/yness: Recirculating representation and practice in the Scottish landscape
Abstract This paper uses the ‘busi/yness’ of Scottish mountain bothies to explore the agency of representation and its entanglement with practice. In doing so it asks, firstly, what are the material and discursive impacts of a rise in the symbolic value of an object (or in this case a building)?
Rachel Hunt
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Attention and Sentiment of the Chinese Public toward a 3D Greening System Based on Sina Weibo. [PDF]
Zhao W, Jin G, Huang C, Zhang J.
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