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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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, 2019 The proliferation of slum residential areas in cities in Sub Saharan Africa adversely affects the inhabitants through overcrowding and congestion, sub-standard housing development, disease prevalence, inadequate socio-economic infrastructures such as ...
C. M. Wanie
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Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.ABSTRACT European countries have experienced significant transformations in their urban populations, with a resurgence of the residential segregation challenges. Yet, empirical analyses focusing on spatial dynamics within urban areas and between the main urban places, along with the changes in demographic profiles of populations, remain rare. The study
Francesca Bitonti +3 more
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Poverty &Public Policy, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Rapid urbanisation and persistent socio‐economic inequality continue to entrench multidimensional poverty within South Africa's urban informal settlements, with women and female‐headed households experiencing disproportionate deprivation. This study analysed primary household survey data collected in 2023 from 322 households across three ...
Adrino Mazenda +3 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This article develops the concept of ‘evictability’—the potential of eviction—as a lens for relational comparison of housing insecurity in cities undergoing rapid urbanisation. ‘Evictability’ has advantages over ‘displaceability’, we argue, because it does not meld residents' fears of coerced loss of home with presumptions about ruptured
JoAnn McGregor +4 more
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World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper explores the unequal water supply infrastructure in Khulna city's informal settlements, focusing on the largest slum, Rupsha. It investigates both formal and informal water governance, examining the roles of various actors, their decision‐making processes, and the challenges these settlements face in accessing water.
Md Salauddin, Awais Piracha
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Feral Territories: The Suburbanization of Nature in Eastern Bangkok
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT Between the 1960s and 1980s, American and international financial and technical assistance spurred men with means to bring together concrete, asphalt, timber, and steel to construct unplanned, poorly serviced (because they were unplanned), and expensive subdivisions at the outskirts of what was then central Bangkok.
Samson Lim
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Dynamics of upgrading processes: a case study of a participatory slum upgrading in Bangkok [PDF]
, 2013 © 2013 Dr. Boonanan NatakunParticipatory slum upgrading (PSU) has been practiced across the globe and has become more prevalent in the past few decades.
NATAKUN, BOONANAN
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Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 2251-2278, April 2026.ABSTRACT This study develops and tests a novel prioritization framework for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under varying geographic scales (regional, sub‐regional, national), focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a pilot case.
Lea Issa, Mutasem El Fadel
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, 2023 Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a significant role in complementing the state ito improve the living conditions in urban slums in developing countries through slum upgrading.
Wegulo, Francis Nyongesa +2 more
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