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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Informal Land Rights and Infrastructure Retrofit: A Typology of Land Rights in Informal Settlements

Land, 2021
Informal settlements represent a challenging operational context for local government service providers due to precarious contextual conditions. Location choice and land procurement for public infrastructure raise the complicated question: who has the ...
Mahsa Mesgar, Diego Ramirez-Lovering
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal Settlements in Jamaica’s Tourism Space: Urban Spatial Development in a Small Island Developing State

Island Studies Journal, 2016
This paper reviews the compatibility of government programmes for regularising or relocating informal settlements situated in a growing tourism space in Jamaica, a small island developing state (SIDS).
Sheere Brooks
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Using open data to detect the structure and pattern of informal settlements: an outset to support inclusive SDGs’ achievement

Big Earth Data, 2021
The detection of informal settlements is the first step in planning and upgrading deprived areas in order to leave no one behind in SDGs. Very High-Resolution satellite images (VHR), have been extensively used for this purpose.
Zahra Assarkhaniki, Soheil Sabri, Abbas Rajabifard   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Politically Motivated Import Bans Leave Lasting Scars? Evidence From Australian–Chinese Beef Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In May 2020, China abruptly suspended imports from several major Australian beef processors, escalating a diplomatic dispute between the two countries. This trade measure disrupted one of the largest beef export relationships in the world almost overnight.
K. Aleks Schaefer, Youngjune Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Distribution and Trend of Informal Settlements Based on Multi-Source Open Data

Redai dili
Informal settlements generally refer to low-quality residential areas built without government permission and characterized by poverty and insufficient basic services.
Zhu Jingyi, Chen Shuang
doaj   +1 more source