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Urban Governance of Disease [PDF]

Administrative Sciences, 2012
Rapid population growth, urbanization, and the growing challenges faced by the urban poor require redefining the paradigm for public health interventions in the 21st century, creating new approaches that take urban determinants of health into consideration.
Rebecca Katz, Sangeeta Mookherji, Morgan Kaminski, Vibhuti Haté, Julie E. Fischer   +4 more
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Gender Differences in Environmental Correlates of Cycling Activity among Older Urban Adults

Land, 2021
Cycling is a form of active transport that can improve the level of health among the elderly population. However, little is known about the environmental correlates of bicycle use among older adults.
Lanjing Wang, Xiayidan Xiaohelaiti, Yi Zhang, Xiaofei Liu, Xumei Chen, Chaoyang Li, Tao Wang, Jiani Wu   +7 more
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Compound Urban Crises [PDF]

, 2022
The crises that cities face—such as climate change, pandemics, economic downturn, and racism—are tightly interlinked and cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper addresses compound urban crises as a unique type of problem, in which discrete solutions
Colen Ladeia Torrens, Jonas, Orr, Christopher J.,, Patterson, James, van der Heijden, Jeroen, Environmental Governance, Papin, Marielle,, Webb, Robert,, Rosan|, Dolan, Dana,, Gupta, Mukesh,, Patterson, James,, Castán Broto, Vanesa, Papin, Marielle, Ashcraft, Catherine, Ashcraft, Catherine M.,, Webb, Robert, Hickmann, Thomas,, Robin, Enora, Robin, Enora,, Torrens, Jonas, Orr, Christopher, Govern.of Urban Dynamics and Transitions, Broto, Vanesa Castán, Torrens, Jonas,, Macrorie, Rachel,, Orr, Christopher J., Hobbins, Robert, Torrens, Jonas; id_orcid, Westman, Linda, Hobbins, Robert,, Ashcraft, Catherine M., Global Sustainability Governance, Castán Broto, Vanesa,, Westman, Linda,, Gupta, Mukesh, van der Heijden, Jeroen,, Hickmann, Thomas, Dolan, Dana, Lund University., Macrorie, Rachel, Rosan, Christina,, Rosan, Christina   +41 more
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The Conceptual Framework of Smart TOD: An Integration of Smart City and TOD

Land, 2023
Smart City (SC) is a booming model of urban development with great potential, armed to be one of the urban development’s most powerful developing weapons. However, the development of SC is far from satisfactory.
Liwei Bai, Lelong Xie, Chaoyang Li, Shengqiang Yuan, Dening Niu, Tao Wang, Zheng Yang, Yi Zhang   +7 more
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The Impact of Governance Structures on the Distribution of Land Consolidation Benefits in Urban Areas: Case Studies in Ningbo, China

Land, 2023
Against the backdrop of an urban-rural dual structure, governance structure significantly influences the fairness and sharing of land value increment profits from land consolidation in various regions.
Wenzheng Lu, Yu Lv, Xiaoping Zhou, Yuzhe Wu, Xiaokun Gu   +4 more
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Developing an Ecosystem Services-Based Approach for Land Use Planning

Land, 2021
Rapid urbanization has altered many ecosystems, causing the decline in many ecosystem services (ES), and generating serious ecological crisis. The Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region is one of the most rapidly urbanized regions in China and has experienced ...
Wenbo Cai, Wei Jiang, Yongli Cai
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Exploring Spatiotemporal Variation of Carbon Storage Driven by Land Use Policy in the Yangtze River Delta Region

Land, 2021
Land use/land cover (LULC) change driven by land use policy always leads to dramatic change in carbon storage and sequestration, especially in a rapidly urbanizing region. However, few studies explored the influences of land use polices on carbon storage
Wenbo Cai, Wanting Peng
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Urban food security during COVID-19: The limits of statutory welfare and the role of community action in Sweden and Korea

Urban Governance, 2022
During COVID-19, the demand for food relief exploded as vulnerable people were suddenly more numerous and visible than ever, for which statutory welfare was not ready to cope with.
Johan Nordensvärd, Young-hwan Byun, Carl-Johan Sommar   +2 more
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Informal social accountability mechanisms for water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in childcare centres in Nairobi City County's informal settlements

Urban Governance, 2022
Social accountability for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services is a critical component to realising child rights to WASH services by the urban poor, more so in childcare centres. Despite the existence of discrete social accountability mechanisms
Ivy Chumo, Caroline Kabaria, Kanyiva Muindi, Helen Elsey, Penelope A Phillips-Howard, Blessing Mberu   +5 more
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Principles and practice: Towards disaster risk reduction in New South Wales, Australia

Urban Governance, 2022
By ratifying the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), the Australian Government has accepted the need to mainstream disaster risk reduction (DRR) principles into policy and procedures.
Alice Conant, Graham Brewer
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