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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS
Australian Planner, 1992(1992). SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS. Australian Planner: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 207-210.
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Human Settlements and Climate Change
2018Human settlement is a place where people live. It refers to the totality of human community with all the social, material, organizational, spiritual and cultural elements that sustain it. A great variety of settlements exists worldwide, reflecting human needs, abilities and aspirations, as well as social, political and economic relations.
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The First Human Settlement of Europe
Journal of Anthropological Research, 1996The question concerning the place of origin of humankind was widely debated for decades. Since it has been established that this was in Africa, much current research is focused on the age of the settlement of Eurasia. This work reviews three hypotheses concerning the age of the occupation of Europe. These hypotheses may be termed "Young," "Mature," and
Marina Mosquera +3 more
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Women, Human Settlements and Housing
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1989Housing and infrastructural services play a central role in the lives of Third World women and yet such women are invariably overlooked by those responsible for planning human settlements. The authors examine why this has occurred.
Janet Momsen +2 more
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An ecological grading of human settlements
Geoforum, 1978Abstract This paper attempts to place within an ecological framework the way in which man has appropriated and changed landscape. The ecosystem concept is used in order to facilitate a realistic examination of the ever changing relationship of man and nature.
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Human Ecology and Planning for Human Settlements
1976In this last lecture in the series it may be appropriate to commence by recording briefly some aspects of the themes developed by the other contributors. The general aim of the programme was to consider problems of human settlements from different points of view, taking advantage of the variety of disciplines represented in CHEC, and of the wide range ...
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Informal Settlements and Human Health
2018Informal settlements or slums dominate the urban landscape and in 2016 were the home to almost 900 million people. Global health is now slum health. The determinants of health for slum dwellers are multi-factorial and can vary from country to country and even within the same city.
Jason Corburn, Alice Sverdlik
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Ecowisdom and Water in Human Settlements
2019I examine human–water relations in cities to demonstrate how water provides a visible, critical connection to nature in urban areas. These interactions allow opportunities for humans to co-create “ecologically wise” solutions for long-term resiliency and offer a useful litmus test for the following proposition: Ecological wisdom (EW) offers successful ...
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HUMAN SETTLEMENTS AS SOCIOTECHNICAL-ECONOMIC PROCESSES
1976In recent times, increasing numbers of people in the world have migrated to the cities. There they have become a part of a sociotechnical-economic system from which they must obtain goods and services with which to live, and to which they should contribute their skills and efforts.
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Patterns of Human Settlement and Industrialization
2019This chapter treats a variety of human interactions with the land that trace their origins more to political and commercial drivers rather than directly to geology, topography, soils and local biota. Examples of land subdivisions are taken mostly from the United States, which illustrates a variety of land-use patterns that result from property surveys.
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