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Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso +5 more
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, 2011 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-113).The aim of the research was to explore the structural, social and economic factors that contribute to women doing sex work in the southern suburbs of Cape Town in order to make recommendations that ...
Mpofu-Mketwa, Tsitsi
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An emerging consensus calls for transformative climate governance. However, what instigates and sustains transformative pathways remains unclear. This study characterises the existence, quality and structural underpinnings of transformative governance capacities in local government climate change response in Aotearoa New Zealand, applying a ...
Gangadari K. Ranawaka +3 more
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, 2013 This thesis examines the extent, nature and impact of flooding in informal and subsidised housing areas on the Cape Flats. Drawing on constructivist arguments regarding the subjectivity of risk as a concept, I examine how flooding and risk are ...
Pharoah, Robyn
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Toward Comprehensive Climate Action: Assessing Mitigation Approaches Across Canadian Municipalities
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Local governments are widely regarded as key leaders in the global response to climate change. Understanding if and how municipalities commit to climate mitigation is crucial for assessing their contribution to global emission‐reduction goals and identifying barriers to effective climate transitions.
Aryana Soliz +7 more
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Systems in transition : from waste to resource : a study of supermarket food waste in Cape Town.
, 2012 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.This thesis explores the management of supermarket food waste in Cape Town. In doing so it highlights both its underutilisation and its potential transition from waste to resource. Through an extended
Marshak, Maya
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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of the democratic and social‐ecological crises, deliberative minipublics such as citizens' assemblies are increasingly implemented and discussed by scholars as a means for sound decision‐making and to enhance public support for sustainability transformations.
Lea Findeis, Nicolas Jager
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, 2013 Includes bibliographical references.The high levels of poverty among marginalised youth in South Africa are a source of grave concern. Studies have shown that one of the main contributions to this phenomenon is unemployment, largely resulting from low ...
Mulenga, Mary
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Mental health of children with epilepsy in Ukraine during the war
Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has created a severe humanitarian crisis, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations such as children with chronic conditions. We set out to determine information about mental health in children with epilepsy in Ukraine affected by the conflict.
Volodymyr Kharytonov +4 more
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