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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Evolution of informal settlements upgrading strategies in Egypt: From negligence to participatory development

Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2015
The issue of informal settlements represents a key challenge not only in Egypt, but also worldwide. A review of informal settlements upgrading policies shows that governments have moved away from eradication policies to provision, enabling and ...
Marwa A. Khalifa
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Explaining the effective physical criteria in promoting resilience of informal settlements in the face of environmental hazards (Case study: Hamadan) [PDF]

مخاطرات محیط طبیعی, 2023
The vulnerability of informal settlements to environmental hazards reveals the importance of paying attention to resilience. Resilience is considered a form of foresight due to the dynamic nature of society's response to risks. Accordingly, this issue is
Hassan Hekmatnia, Esmail Nasiri hendehakhale, Mohammad Eskandari Nodeh, Reihaneh Younesi Sandi   +3 more
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Mapping informal settlement indicators using object-oriented analysis in the Middle East

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2019
Mapping informal settlements is crucial for resource and utility management and planning. In 2003, the UN-Habitat developed a process for mapping and monitoring urban inequality to support reporting against the sustainable development goals (SDGs ...
Ahmad Fallatah, Simon Jones, David Mitchell, Divyani Kohli   +3 more
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Evaluating procedural modelling for 3D models of informal settlements in urban design activities

South African Journal of Science, 2015
Three-dimensional (3D) modelling and visualisation is one of the fastest growing application fields in geographic information science. 3D city models are being researched extensively for a variety of purposes and in various domains, including urban ...
Victoria Rautenbach, Yvette Bevis, Serena Coetzee, Carin Combrinck   +3 more
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The effects of climate change on informal settlements

Town and Regional Planning, 2023
Informal settlements have played a significant role in providing the urban poor with access to shelter and close proximity to the economic opportunities in the large urban centres.
Nokwenama James
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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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Informality in Urban Areas, a Case of Land Use Transformation in Mlalakuwa Settlement, Dar es Salaam

African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences, 2020
Land use development and transformation in informal settlements have been taking place because informal settlements have been alternative way of providing affordable housing to low income people.
Najum Juma, Nelly Babere
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Towards integrated cross-sectoral surveillance of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance: Needs, approaches, and considerations for linking surveillance to action

Environment International
Pathogenic and antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) microorganisms are continually transmitted between human, animal, and environmental reservoirs, contributing to the high burden of infectious disease and driving the growing global AMR crisis.
Rachael Lappan, Steven L. Chown, Matthew French, Laura Perlaza-Jiménez, Nenad Macesic, Mark Davis, Rebekah Brown, Allen Cheng, Thomas Clasen, Lindus Conlan, Frederick Goddard, Rebekah Henry, Daniel R. Knight, Fuyi Li, Stephen Luby, Dena Lyras, Gaofeng Ni, Scott A. Rice, Francesca Short, Jiangning Song, Andrea Whittaker, Karin Leder, Trevor Lithgow, Chris Greening   +23 more
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Google Earth Engine for Informal Settlement Mapping: A Random Forest Classification Using Spectral and Textural Information

Remote Sensing, 2022
Accurate and reliable informal settlement maps are fundamental decision-making tools for planning, and for expediting informed management of cities. However, extraction of spatial information for informal settlements has remained a mammoth task due to ...
Dadirai Matarira, Onisimo Mutanga, Maheshvari Naidu   +2 more
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