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Simulating Evacuation of Humanitarian Settlements

open access: yesFire technology, 2023
Informal settlements and settlements of displaced communities (e.g., humanitarian settlements) provide crucial shelter for people, including those negatively impacted by natural hazards and human-caused crises.
E. Kuligowski   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Relationship between Rural Settlements’ Plant Communities and Environmental Factors in Hilly Area of Southeast China

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
The construction of the ecological environment in rural settlements is a very important part of the development of human settlements. Key to this construction is the coordinated and sustainable development of plant environment, geographical environment ...
Ziyan Wang   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Human-raptor conflict in rural settlements of Colombia

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
In human-transformed landscapes, predators may feed on domesticated animals, and thus affect human well-being, creating negative perceptions and leading to conflict with people that can result in the persecution of the predator.
Juan Sebastián Restrepo-Cardona   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

microdata.no – søknadsfri tilgang til registerdata om boforhold

open access: yesTidsskrift for boligforskning, 2020
Forskningsplattformen microdata.no fra NSD – Norsk senter for forskningsdata (heretter NSD) og Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB) gir forskere og studenter umiddelbar online tilgang til registerdata.
Svein Johansen
doaj   +1 more source

Community-driven sanitation improvement in deprived urban neighbourhoods: meeting the challenges of local collective action, co-production, affordability and a trans-sectoral approach. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There is an international consensus that urban sanitary conditions are in great need of improvement, but sharp disagreement over how this improvement should be pursued.
McGranahan, Gordon, SHARE
core   +1 more source

Trangboddhet og barnefamiliers hverdagsliv i koronaens tid

open access: yesTidsskrift for boligforskning, 2020
Boforhold har betydning for barnefamiliers situasjon og er en viktig faktor i barns oppvekstmiljø. Å bo trangt er en faktor som kan påvirke muligheten for ro og hvile, livsutfoldelse og kan gi familiestress.
Ingar Brattbakk
doaj   +1 more source

Intangible cultural heritage: a benefit to climate-displaced and host communities

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2021
Climate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others.
Gül Aktürk, Martha B. Lerski
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evolution of fluvial environments and history of human settlements on the Ticino river alluvial plain

open access: yesGeographica Helvetica, 2019
. The present contribution aims to provide better knowledge on the evolution of the fluvial environments of the Ticino river alluvial plain, highlighting the complex interaction of the Ticino river and its lateral tributaries with the human communities ...
Dorota Czerski   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gatherings of mobility and immobility: itinerant “criminal tribes” and their containment by the Salvation Army in colonial South India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility ...
Arora, Saurabh
core   +1 more source

Fear of COVID-19 among Peruvian People Living in Disadvantaged Communities: A Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesClinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, 2021
Background: The COVID-19 crisis is fuelling a state of fear among the human population at global level. Especially, those living in informal settlements and slums worldwide have been profoundly impacted by this pandemic.
C. Sotomayor-Beltran   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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