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Including Urban Informality for Economic Development in Masvingo City, Zimbabwe
Indonesian Journal of Social and Environmental Issues, 2020 The informal sector has been excluded in the development of cities despite playing a big role in providing livelihoods to a lot of urban dwellers. Their contribution to the city economy has been marginalized despite the size of this sector and the ...
Average Chigwenya, Prisca Simbanegavi
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rapid technological change, shorter lifecycles and rising demand for electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) are increasing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and emphasise the need for a circular economy. This paper identifies barriers and enablers of the circular transition in EEE and outlines interventions.
Aya Abdelmeguid, Lucia Corsini
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study analyzed Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technology applications in agribusiness and the role of strategic stakeholders, engagement methods, and other critical aspects data sharing, confidentiality, integrity, decision‐making, and sector‐specific requirements in promoting circularity.
Simone Sehnem +3 more
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & PolicyE-waste management in the Global South relies heavily on the informal sector. The associated workforce, vast in number, faces exposure to harmful substances and often represents society’s most vulnerable segments.
Nicolás Labra Cataldo +2 more
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L'Espace Politique, 2016 Formality and informality, Global North and Global South as well as globalization from above and globalization on below are enduring dichotomies informing greatly our representations of cities.
Sandrine Berroir +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid increasing environmental and economic pressures, Africa's transition to a circular economy (CE) presents a vital pathway to inclusive, low‐carbon development. Yet, how digital transformation, informal innovation, and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy readiness shape CE outcomes remains underexplored.
Emmanuel K. Manu +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing resource pressures, environmental regulation plays a critical role in enabling the transition to a circular economy (CE). This study conducts a systematic literature review to synthesize how different regulatory approaches—command‐and‐control, market‐based, voluntary, and reflexive—affect CE transitions across economic and ...
Li Yuan
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WorldBy 2050, it is estimated that approximately 200 million people will be displaced due to the impacts of climate change. Vulnerability to climate change is shaped not only by environmental factors but fundamentally by systemic power relations and ...
Susana Herrero Olarte +1 more
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Living in the Intra-Urban Confines of Lima: A Precariousness of Geopolitical Origin
Revista INVI, 2021 Confines, defined as spaces of blurry boundaries and powers interpenetration, are most traditionally studied in geopolitics contexts at the national level.
Alexis Sierra, Victor Gheno
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L’informalité comme une ressource urbaine ? Le cas des favelas de Rio de Janeiro
EchoGéo, 2017 This article analyzes the role played by urban informality in the process of the configuration and access to urban resources. In the case of the favelas of Rio, informality may allow access to special areas of the city, which is not possible through the ...
Rafael Soares Gonçalves
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