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Flood vulnerability in township informal settlements [PDF]

Jàmbá
Migration has shaped townships into hubs of urban informality that are characterised by the propagation of informal settlements. With their expansion, informal settlements have become increasingly vulnerable to the devastating impacts of hazards.
Sazi W. Gcabashe, Sareesha Pillay
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Household determinants of healthcare utilisation in three informal settlements in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional survey [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objective Healthcare utilisation (HU) is key to improving the health of residents in urban informal settlements. This study aimed to explore household-level factors influencing HU among informal settlement households in Freetown, Sierra Leone.Design ...
Helen Elsey, Alastair H Leyland, Laura Dean, Rachel Tolhurst, Haja Wurie, Abu Conteh, Bintu Mansaray, Joseph MacCarthy, Francis Refell, Samuel Saidu, Samira Sesay, Lana Whittaker, Eliud Kibuchi, Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha, Ibrahim Gandi, Neele Wiltgen Georgi, Sia Morenike Tengbe, Ibrahim Juldeh Sesay, Sullaiman Fullah, Dora Vangahun, Rajith W D Lakshman, Braima Koroma, Motto Nganda   +22 more
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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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FORMS OF INFORMALITY AND ADAPTATIONS IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS [PDF]

International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR, 2016
Informal settlements have become integral to the urban imagery of the cities across the global South. Forms of urban informality emerge and grow through some generative processes of self-organisation and incremental adaptations. While formal interventions have often failed to put an end to such a resilient and complex type of urbanism, the desire for ...
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The Inter/Transdisciplinary Framework for Urban Governance Intervention in the Egyptian Informal Settlements

Buildings, 2023
There is a need to understand the complex nature of informal settlements to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 11: “Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”.
Eman El Nachar, Doaa Abouelmagd
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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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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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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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Information and immigrant settlement

Journal of Development Economics
We study a randomly-assigned program providing information on U.S. settlement for new Filipino immigrants. The intervention, a 2.5-hour pre-departure training and an accompanying paper handbook, has no effect on employment, settlement, and subjective wellbeing, but leads immigrants to acquire substantially fewer social network connections.
Toman Barsbai, Victoria Licuanan, Andreas Steinmayr, Erwin Tiongson, Dean Yang   +4 more
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