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Sustainable development goal 11.1 in the Caribbean: assessing informal settlement upgrading in Trinidad and Tobago

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
The study had the purpose of holistically assessing informal settlement upgrading in the Caribbean, due to Trinidad and Tobago's high prevalence of housing informality.
Jabari Hollis Jacob, Julia R. Kotzebue
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HIV-Prevalence in South Africa by settlement type: A repeat population-based cross-sectional analysis of men and women.

PLoS ONE, 2020
To assess i) whether there is an independent association between HIV-prevalence and settlement types (urban formal, urban informal, rural formal, rural informal), and, ii) whether this changes over time, in South Africa. We draw on four (2002; 2005; 2008;
Andrew Gibbs, Tarylee Reddy, Kristin Dunkle, Rachel Jewkes   +3 more
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Sustainable Informal Settlements?

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
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Informal urban design: Forms of informal settlement

Informal urbanism, including informal settlement, informal street vending, and informal transport, has become integral to the ways in which different places work across scales and contexts, particularly in cities of the global South.
Kamalipour, Hesam
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Health economic considerations for pharmacogenomic services in the United Kingdom: The Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation in Pharmacogenomics

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Dyfrig A. Hughes, Henry Fong, Grace Hampson, Catrin O. Plumpton, Chris Sampson   +4 more
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Digital Technologies for Transparent and Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Resource Orchestration‐Based View in the Textile Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
wiley   +1 more source

Goal Displacement and Goal Conflicts in Circular Innovation Initiatives: Types and Mitigation Practices

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many firms set ambitious sustainability goals but these are frequently “displaced” by proxy goals that are easier to track and measure. However, the specific types of goal conflicts that follow from this displacement are poorly understood. We conducted a case study of circular innovation initiatives at a global MedTech company and identified ...
Wiebke Reim, Johan Frishammar, Debadrita Panda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using COVID-19 as a lens to examine assumptions about urban informality

Global Social Challenges Journal
This article examines some key concepts that dominated academic discussion of the likely impact of COVID-19 on informal settlements. The literature identified various factors including, inter alia density, crowding, overcrowding and connectivity, used ...
David Everatt
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Re/Claiming Agency: Learning, Liminality and Immigrant Service Organizations

Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 2008
To facilitate the settlement of new immigrants, immigrant service organizations provide a range of services and opportunities for both formal and informal learning.
Tara Gibb, Evelyn Hamdon, Zenobia Jamal
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Analysis of Space Manipulation in an Informal Urban Settlement: The Case of Ng’ombe in Lusaka, Zambia

, 2020
Urban informality remains a consistent challenge and matter of debate by planners and policymakers in the urbanising cities of sub-Saharan Africa. A common manifestation of urban informality in African cities is the sprawling informal settlements that ...
Mwamba, Jonathan Simbeya
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