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Urbanization, Industrialization, and Energy Transition: An Empirical Analysis of Life Expectancy in a Developing Economy

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, Syeda Sajia Afroz Rumpa, Fariha Akter Lucky, Pasquale Marcello Falcone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and facilitators to type 2 diabetes management among slum‐dwellers: A systematic review and qualitative meta‐synthesis

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, Habib Jalilian, Rahim Khodayari‐zarnaq, Masumeh Gholizadeh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Link between Quantitative and Qualitative Sciences to Understand Social Systems Using the Example of Informal Settlements

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
doaj   +1 more source

A Critical Review of High and Very High-Resolution Remote Sensing Approaches for Detecting and Mapping Slums: Trends, Challenges and Emerging Opportunities

, 2018
Slums are a global urban challenge, with less developed countries being particularly impacted. To adequately detect and map them, data is needed on their location, spatial extent and evolution.
R. Mahabir, Arie Croitoru, A. Crooks, P. Agouris, A. Stefanidis   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 and Slums: A Pandemic Highlights Gaps in Knowledge About Urban Poverty

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2020
According to the United Nations, about 1 billion persons live in so-called slums. Numerous studies have shown that this population is particularly vulnerable to infectious diseases.
John Friesen, P. Pelz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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, Sérgio Barreiros Proença , Maria Matos Silva   +2 more
doaj  

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
wiley   +1 more source

SLUM AREA AS A TOURIST DESTINATION

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
The paper considers the issues of emergence and the basic stages of propagation of slums in the world. Slums have become quite common in the 19th – early 20th centuries in the major cities of the industrialized countries of Europe and North America ...
S. S. Maletin
doaj  

A Global Estimate of the Size and Location of Informal Settlements

Urban Science
Slums 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, Monika Kuffer, Jota Samper   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trapped in the prison of the mind: notions of climate-induced (im)mobility decision-making and wellbeing from an urban informal settlement in Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2020
The concept of Trapped Populations has until date mainly referred to people ‘trapped’ in environmentally high-risk rural areas due to economic constraints.
A Baldwin, A Ezeh, A Hjälm, A Sherbinin De, A Unger, A Woodward, B Etzold, B Gray, B Mberu, BW Wekesa, D Mata-Codesal, DB Cook, DD Heckathorn, DD Heckathorn, DG Ockwell, E Boyd, ED Sclar, J Barnett, J Barry, J Brace-Govan, J Butler, J Carling, J Hugé, J Previte, J Wolf, JS Dryzek, K Blanchet, K Kanim, KE McNamara, LA Goodman, LCE Morinière, LM Hunter, M Foucault, M Foucault, M Foucault, M Kurant, M Toyota, MA Rahaman, MC Morales, MD Cattaneo, MM Islam, MMH Khan, MSI Mullick, N Adri, N Fairclough, N Fairclough, N Watts, N Watts, NM Butala, P Adey, P Schwerdtle, P Stenner, P Tschakert, PK De, R Black, R Black, R Black, RB Ruback, RB Ruback, RJ Lilford, S Akhter, S Ayeb-Karlsson, S Ayeb-Karlsson, S Niemeyer, S Watts, SH Eriksen, SR Brown, SR Brown, T Izutsu, TJ Fitch, TJ Fitch, UNFCCC, UNFCCC, W Stephenson, W Stephenson, WN Adger   +75 more
core   +2 more sources