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Health Science Reports, 2023 Background and Aims The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is on the rise worldwide, especially in developing countries. There is a significant difference between the slum‐dwellers and other urban dwellers in terms of T2D incidence rate and access to ...
Fawzieh Ghammari +3 more
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Entropy, 2023 Urbanization is one of the defining trends of our time and appropriate models are needed to anticipate the changes in cities, which are largely determined by human behavior.
John Friesen
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Urbanization is a defining feature of contemporary development, shaping economic opportunities, social structures, and health outcomes. This study examines the influence of urbanization on life expectancy in Bangladesh, with particular attention to the role of the energy mix and industrialization.
Md. Hasanur Rahman +3 more
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PREVALENCE AND DETERMINANTS OF MALNUTRITION AMONG BELOW FIVE AGE GROUP CHILDREN OF SLUMS IN MUMBAI CITY [PDF]
Business Excellence and Management, 2014 Child malnutrition affects on the learning abilities, physical growth and future work capacity. The incidence of child malnutrition is higher in urban slums of Mumbai city.
Sanjay RODE
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River basin flood adaptation for coastal urban slums. Mithi river basin, Dharavi slum
Ri-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2023 Urban slums in developing countries host a substantial proportion of the urban population. Slums are located on land usually unsuitable for formal development, along the river basins or coastal mangroves that makes them at a greater risk of flooding ...
Anubhav Goyal +2 more
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Developing and Testing a Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Financial Tool
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) represents a paradigm shift in the provision of safely managed sanitation services with a framework of three outcomes—equity, safety and sustainability. There are several sanitation financial tools, but none of these fully address all CWIS outcomes. Citywide Inclusive Sanitation Financial Tool (CWIS‐FiT) is
Camila Silva Franco +6 more
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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 Global Estimate of the Size and Location of Informal Settlements
Urban ScienceSlums are a structural feature of urbanization, and shifting urbanization trends underline their significance for the cities of tomorrow. Despite their importance, data and knowledge on slums are very limited.
Anthony Boanada-Fuchs +2 more
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L’expérience plurielle de la vulnérabilité au sein des bidonvilles
Populations Vulnérables, 2019 In recent decades, residential vulnerabilities have experienced a new boom. This to the point of making the Abbé Pierre foundation say that they would be 15 million people to be confronted with difficulties related to housing.
Jean-Baptiste Daubeuf
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A política dos Parques Proletários Provisórios no Rio de Janeiro
Terra Brasilis, 2020 The historiography of the favela apprehends the hygienism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the first phase of the construction of the favela as a problem that demanded state attention.
Rafael Gonçalves de Almeida
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