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Urban information systems in Turkey
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal Engineer, 2009 Geographical information system (GIS) projects were initiated during the 1980s in Turkey. The numbers of those projects increased both in public and private sectors during the 1990s, encouraged by the rapid developments in technology. One of the types of institutions most eager to use GIS technology is municipalities in the country. The administrators
Durduran, S. Savas +2 more
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Information Dynamics in Urban Crime
Entropy, 2018 Information production in both space and time has been highlighted as one of the elements that shapes the footprint of complexity in natural and socio-technical systems. However, information production in urban crime has barely been studied. This work copes with this problem by using multifractal analysis to characterize the spatial information scaling
Miguel A. Melgarejo, Nelson Obregon
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Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity
Ecology and SocietyInformality is a distinguishing characteristic of cities in the Global South and is strongly associated with urban inequality. Yet, in pursuing resilience, urban resilience strategies and planning have yet to grapple with the role of informality in ...
Hallie Eakin +7 more
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Governance Lessons from Urban Informality
Politics and Governance, 2018 We locate this issue’s papers on a spectrum of radicalism. We then examine that spectrum, and the governance mechanisms described, through the lens of a significant arena of urban counter-planning: the urban informal economy.
Hugo Sarmiento, Chris Tilly
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LandUrban informality is a defining feature of Latin American urbanisation, with estimates suggesting that up to 80% of the urban landscape has been informally built.
Stella Schroeder +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based solutions are increasingly tested to address aflatoxin issues in peanuts in developing countries. Although previous studies have found that Haitian grocery store shoppers are willing to pay a 21% premium for peanut butter with levels of aflatoxin that meet international standards, no information is available for the much larger ...
Phendy Jacques +2 more
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Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
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L'Espace Politique, 2016 This article explores the dimensions of informality behind the scenes of Rímac’s local government, a central district of the Peruvian capital, Lima. The municipality’s capacity to oversee urban development is challenged by the magnitude of its problems ...
Jérémy Robert, Pascale Metzger
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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Navigating the Nexus of Urban Informality and Health-Insights From Surat, India: A Short Communication [PDF]
BioSocial Health JournalIntroduction: Urban areas in the Global South are marked by widespread informality stemming from the inability of economic, legal, and institutional systems to accommodate diverse populations.
Anuj Prakash Ghanekar, Mathew George
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