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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 This article examines the complexities around urban informality, in particular illegal street vending in post-colonial Harare in Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2021.
Enock Ndawana, Enock Ndawana
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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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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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Decent work and informal employment: A survey of workers in Glen View, Harare [PDF]
, 2008 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Luebker, Malte
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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’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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Risk attitudes and informal employment in a developing economy [PDF]
, 2012 © 2012 Bennett et al.; licensee Springer. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0),which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction ...
AK Basu +14 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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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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Employment, unemployment and informality in Zimbabwe: Concepts and data for coherent policy-making [PDF]
, 2008 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Luebker, Malte
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