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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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A whole-of-school approach for non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control in Nigeria
Discover Public HealthNigeria is experiencing a multiburden of disease groups, with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) emerging as a major contributor to morbidity and mortality.
Marietta Imadojiemu +2 more
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, 2023 This note has two main objectives. First, it highlights the critical need for low-carbon slum upgrading within city investments for climate mitigation.
Chen, Mansha +2 more
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The Implementation of the Kampung Improvement Program in Semarang: Some Obstacles and Impacts
IHiS (Indonesian Historical Studies), 2020 This study analyzes Kampung Improvement Program (KIP) implementation and its impact on social life in Semarang between 1978-1988 periods. The KIP program is considered successful in building and managing slum settlements in Semarang.
Desi Tri Susilowati +2 more
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The role of government and NGOs in slum development: the case of Dhaka City
, 2009 This article addresses the situation of slums in Dhaka City in relation to government and NGO mechanisms and priorities for slum development and upgrading.
Habib, Enamul
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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Cholera amid the climate crisis: a systematic review of flooding-driven health risks in West Africa
Discover Public HealthIntroduction Flooding, a major climate-related disaster, poses a growing threat to public health in West Africa. Frequent and severe rainfall, coupled with poor infrastructure and weak sanitation systems, has worsened the spread of cholera and other ...
Miracle Ayomikun Adesina +7 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Indian reality tourism - a critical perspective
Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2016 Purpose – The purpose of this paper to find out the tangible potential and opportunities of reality-tourism in India and other parts of the world. Do we expose our nudity, weaknesses and poverty to tourists or can it be used as an unconventional revenue ...
Vishwas Gupta
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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