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Indicator-based assessment of the liveability of communities in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana: A transdisciplinary approach

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
Local knowledge of spatiotemporal patterns of liveability is vital for choosing where to live and where revitalisation efforts must concentrate. We employed transdisciplinary learning to identify 12 liveability indicators and applied them to assess the ...
Alex Barimah Owusu, Collins Adjei Mensah, Iris Ekua Mensimah Fynn, Clement Kwang, Isaac Kwamena Arthur, Kofi Adu-Boahen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

To What Extent Do Australian Government Metrics Align With Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Conceptualisations of Wellbeing? A Scoping Review of Wellbeing Frameworks

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen, Edward J. O'Connor, Megan Rebuli, Tiana Thorne, Naomi Kakoschke, Ray Mahoney   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

SWOT Analysis and Developing Strategies for the Realisation of Urban Livability in Tehran

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021
The present study aims to analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of managing the Tehran Metropolitan to help comprehend the status quo as well as the challenges to the realisation of liveability indicators.
Reza Shabanzadeh Namini, Mirella Loda, Abolfazl Meshkini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consistency Without Uniformity: Context‐Specific Disability Inclusion Action Planning in New South Wales Local Government

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Established under the Disability Inclusion Act 2014 (NSW), Disability Inclusion Action Plans (DIAPs) are public accountability instruments through which New South Wales (NSW) councils translate statutory disability inclusion obligations into place‐based inclusion planning.
Scott Denton
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable neighbourhoods among adults with diverse disability experiences in urban and ...
Maria Hobbs, Kim Jose, Ceridwen Owen, Verity Cleland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Public Green Infrastructure Contributes to City Livability: A Systematic Quantitative Review

Land, 2018
Consistent with the Land Urbanism and Green Infrastructure theme of this special issue of Land, the primary goal of this review is to provide a plain language overview of recent literature that reports on the psychological, physiological, general well ...
Jackie Parker, Greg D. Simpson
doaj   +1 more source

Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
wiley   +1 more source

Liveable Futures

Atlantis
Liveable futures bring into question the conditions that make human and more-than-human lives possible and provide these with prospects. Such futures are made of multiple elements, including knowledge infrastructures (KIs). Knowledge infrastructures, by creating and recreating objects, categories and relations, make important contributions to ...
Ardath Whynacht, Erin Fredericks, Alex Khasnabish   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Harmonizing Social Impact Assessment in the Bioeconomy: A Cross‐Regional Fuzzy‐Delphi Approach

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The bioeconomy transition risks underrepresenting social sustainability, while existing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) applications remain insufficient for comparison and decision support due to heterogeneous and non‐standardized selection of social impact categories. This study proposes a cross‐regional baseline set of impact categories
Julia Lessa Feitosa Virgolino, Claudia Coutinho‐Nóbrega, Nicholas M. Holden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional disparities in urban liveability across Chinese non-core cities: a typological exploration based on carbon emissions differences

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Decarbonisation has increasingly become a major policy direction globally, deeply intertwined with urban socio-economic development. However, the connection between such a process and urban liveability remains underexplored.
Yizhao Du
doaj   +1 more source