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Informal urban settlements and cholera risk in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: As a result of poor economic opportunities and an increasing shortage of affordable housing, much of the spatial growth in many of the world's fastest-growing cities is a result of the expansion of informal settlements where residents live ...
Werema, Japhet, Ryan, Edward T, Mkude, Sigsbert, Marcia C Castro, Japhet Werema, de Castro, Marcia Caldas, Khadija Kannady, Marcia Caldas de Castro, Castro, Marcia C, Killeen, Gerry F, Ulrike Fillinger, Kannady Khadija, Castro Marcia C., Konradsen, Flemming, Castro, Marcia, Kannady, Khadija, Sigsbert Mkude, Kanamori, Shogo, Shogo Kanamori, Gerry F Killeen, Penrose, Katherine, Fillinger, Ulrike, Edward T Ryan, Ryan, Edward, Killeen, Gerry F., Mkude Sigsbert, Killeen Gerry F., Kanamori Shogo, Fillinger Ulrike, Katherine Penrose   +29 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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The politics of leadership organizing in informal settlements: ambiguities of speaking publicly and mediating conflicting institutional logics [PDF]

, 2014
Includes bibliographical references.This thesis examines the politics of leadership organizing in three informal settlements in Cape Town. Building on the facts that internal informal settlement politics is tense and leadership organizing fragmented and ...
Drivdal, Laura Elisabet
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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 Pentecostal ‘working of talents’ (Matarenda) as a catalyst for breaking female economic dependency: Evidence from a Gauteng informal settlement

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: Majority of women are restricted to being financially dependent on their husbands due to cultural customs and economic hardships such as extreme poverty, unemployment, unsafe sanitation, and caregiving burdens.
Karabo S. Mabina
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Breaking chains: The impact of Pentecostalism on culture and gender-based violence in Rushinga, Zimbabwe

African Journal of Pentecostal Studies
Background: In Zimbabwe, gender-based violence remains a pressing challenge deeply rooted in historical, cultural and socio-economic factors. Traditional beliefs about gender roles and patriarchal structures continue to perpetuate violence against women ...
Tsitsi Mwapfaa
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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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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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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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