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Looking beyond the visible: contesting environmental agendas for Mumbai slums [PDF]
, 2009 This is Ch 9 from Furniss, P. and Wilson G. (eds) Environment, Development and Sustainability: Perspectives and Cases from Around the World, p86-96.Slums are the most immediate, visible symbols of poverty and environmental degra-dation intertwined in ...
Abbott, Dina
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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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City of slums: self-organisation across scales [PDF]
, 2002 The city is certainly a fine example of a complex system, where the parts can only be understood through the whole, and the whole is more than the simple sum of the parts. In the present paper we explore the idea that some of these parts are themselves
Barros, Joana +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane +7 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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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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Journal of Family and Community Medicine, 2023 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has almost reached global epidemic proportions. Fortunately, the progress of the disease can be stemmed at the prediabetic level.
Filza Haqiq +7 more
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, 2010 Slums have generated renewed interest among scholars in the wake of rapid urbanization in the South and the growing incidence of urban poverty worldwide.
Shahadat Hossain, Michael Humphrey
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