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Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the Civic Capacity Index

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee, David Chrislip, Patti Schmitt   +2 more
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Technological Composition and Innovation Factors in Inventive Yangtze River Delta: Evidence from Patent Inventions

Applied Sciences
Patents as proxy for technological trends is well noted. The rapid increase of patents in China, however, has aroused debates on its technological progress: ‘few original innovations’ are produced in advanced areas, and true ‘breakthroughs’ are ...
Lingyue Li, Lie Wang, Xiaohu Zhang, Lan Wang   +3 more
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Occupational Conditions and Well‐Being Among Informal Waste Pickers in Hong Kong: A Comparative Study of 2018 and 2023

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Informal waste pickers play a crucial role in urban recycling systems but often face precarious employment and systematic marginalization. This study examines the evolving demographic, occupational, and health trends of informal waste pickers in Hong Kong between 2018 and 2023.
Siu‐Ming Chan, Alan Tam, Heng Xu, Yu‐tian He, Yuen‐Ki Tang, Gum‐Ryeong Park, Wing‐Him Tang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Models for Complex Planning Policy Analysis: Challenges and a Solution in Coupling Dissimilar Models [PDF]

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14th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management (CUPUM): Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities, MIT, Boston, USA, 7-10 July 2015It is an expensive and time consuming task to develop a new model.
Shahumyan, Harutyun, Moeckel, Rolf
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
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Advancing Urban Life: A Systematic Review of Emerging Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Urban Design and Planning

Buildings
The advancement of cutting-edge technologies significantly transforms urban lifestyles and is indispensable in sustainable urban design and planning.
Wei He, Mingze Chen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood, Christopher Phelps, Silvia Salazar, Rachel Ong ViforJ   +3 more
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Family Dispute Resolution in Australia: The Under‐Servicing of Indigenous, Migrant and Refugee Families Experiencing Family Violence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis and Assessment of ICT and its Role in Urban Planning and Management: A Case Study of Central District of Esfahan [PDF]

نشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2011
The current paper attempts to examine information and communication technology (ICT) in Esfahan’s central district. The research method is applied-developmental and the study method is survey-documental. To collect data, questionnaires were used and SPSS
Asghar Zarabi, Jamal Mahamadi, Jabbar Alizadeh   +2 more
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Modeling pedestrian activity in cities with urban network analysis

The global climate-change crisis, along with public health and economic competitiveness challenges in cities around the world have underscored the need for analytic tools to examine the relationship between city design and sustainable mobility.
Sevtsuk, Andres, Kalvo, Raul
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