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The Politics of Detailed Urban Planning: Institutional Change and Urban Rentiership in Madagascar

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article employs a political settlements approach to explore the formal and informal institutional dynamics that underpin contemporary rentier capitalism in urban Africa through the case of Antananarivo, Madagascar. It examines how Malagasy ruling elites created opportunities for land‐based rent seeking by establishing new institutional ...
Fanny Voélin
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Fluid authorities: Exploring hydraulic social contracts in Nairobi’s water provision

Water Alternatives
This paper aims to expand our understanding of the diverse relationships in water provision in cities such as Nairobi, where urban water is provided through heterogeneous actors and through piped and non-piped systems.
Maja Dahl Jeppesen
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Crecimiento y desarrollo urbano de Nairobi

Estudios de Asia y África, 1993
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Marcela Taraborelli de Antonini
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Comparative Efficiency for in vitro Transfection of Goat Undifferentiated Spermatogonia Using Lipofectamine Reagents and Electroporation

Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications, 2022
Wilkister Nabulindo Nakami,1– 3 James Nguhiu-Mwangi,2 Ambrose Ng’eno Kipyegon,2 Moses Ogugo,1,3 Charity Muteti,1,3 Stephen Kemp1,3 1Livestock Genetics, International Livestock Research Institute, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya; 2Department of Clinical Studies ...
Nakami WN, Nguhiu-Mwangi J, Kipyegon AN, Ogugo M, Muteti C, Kemp S   +5 more
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Species characteristics predict the effectiveness of avian survey methods in an Afromontane sky‐island

Ibis, EarlyView.
Biodiversity conservation requires effective monitoring of ecological communities in remote locations, where limited accessibility often restricts survey efforts. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is becoming an established method for measuring biodiversity, facilitated by the increased accessibility of autonomous recording units.
Vikram Malhi, Gino Brignoli, Jane Hallam, Peter Njoroge, Luc Lens, Marius Somveille, Julia J. Day   +6 more
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Potential effects of urbanization on urban thermal comfort, a case study of Nairobi city, Kenya: A review [PDF]

Geographica Pannonica, 2016
This study reviews the effect of urbanization on human thermal comfort over Nairobi city in Kenya. Urbanization alters urban center's land use and land cover, modifying the climate of the urban setting.
Ongoma Victor, Muange Kalondu Pamela, Zablon Weku Shilenje   +2 more
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Sustainable energy for whom? Governing pro-poor, low-carbon pathways to development: lessons from solar PV in Kenya [PDF]

, 2014
Using a combination of insights from innovation studies, sociotechnical transitions theory and the STEPS pathways approach, this paper analyses the evolution of the Kenyan photovoltaics (PV) market. Considered by many to be an exemplar of private sector
Becker, Sarah, Byrne, Robert, Ely, Adrian, Gollwitzer, Lorenz, Kirumba, Edith, Ockwell, David, Ozor, Nicholas, Urama, Kevin   +7 more
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Floral resource strips enhance parasitoid abundance and diversity in apple orchards and promote agroecological advances in a South African biosphere reserve

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Floral resource strips within apple orchards increased parasitoid abundance and influenced community composition, enhancing local biodiversity in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve's transition zone. Ruderal and natural fynbos habitats supported higher parasitoid richness and abundance, emphasising the importance of conserving semi‐natural habitats ...
Fabrizia Ratto, Peter Steward, Steven M. Sait, Julien M. Haran, Rene Gaigher, James S. Pryke, Michael J. Samways, William Kunin   +7 more
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InterVA versus Spectrum: how comparable are they in estimating AIDS mortality patterns in Nairobi’s informal settlements?

Global Health Action, 2013
Background: The Spectrum computer package is used to generate national AIDS mortality estimates in settings where vital registration systems are lacking.
Samuel Oji Oti, Marilyn Wamukoya, Mary Mahy, Catherine Kyobutungi   +3 more
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Anticipated Stigma in Nursing: A Concept Analysis Informed by Cannabis Use Disclosure

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To clarify the concept of anticipated stigma and examine its relevance to cannabis use disclosure in nursing using an evolutionary concept analysis approach. Design Concept analysis guided by Rodgers and Knafl's evolutionary method. Data Sources An interdisciplinary purposive literature review was conducted using empirical and theoretical ...
Daniel D. King
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