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Child Brides in Africa: A Narrative Review on Effects, Gaps, and Interventions
Public Health Challenges, Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2026.Child marriage, defined as union before age 18, affects millions of girls across sub‐Saharan Africa, with Niger, Chad, Mali, Guinea, and Nigeria recording prevalence rates of 40–76%. This review synthesises evidence on the prevalence, sociocultural and economic drivers, and health, psychological, and social consequences of child marriage in Africa ...
Olaoye Damilola Quazeem +6 more
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The Voluntary Association in The Slum [PDF]
, 1962 1 / Voluntary Associations in a Zone of Transition This report is a study of formal voluntary associations in a zone of transition. It seeks information on the various kinds of voluntary organizations to be found in such an area, the characteristics of ...
Babchuk, Nicholas, Gordon, C. Wayne
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingIn the intricate landscape of mapping urban slum dynamics, the significance of robust and efficient techniques is often underestimated and remains absent in many studies.
Thomas Stark +3 more
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Ecoso exchange newsletter : ecological, sociological and political discourse 2/44; June 1997 [PDF]
, 1997 This is a special edition on public housing in Victoria 1937 to 1997. Contents: Page 2. The Tenants Councils (1937 to 1950) 5. The HCV's First Thirty Years (1937/8 to 1967) 9. Community Housing ? Public Housing ? (issues of the 90's) 10.
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The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This paper examines the relationship between urban compactness and social equity across three UK cities. Using a multidimensional compactness framework and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR), it analyses how demographic characteristics relate to spatial compactness at a fine scale.
Tianrui Sun, Cristian Silva
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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Achieving zero waste for landfills by employing adaptive municipal solid waste management services
Ecological IndicatorsAmidst global pushes for sustainable land development, Jakarta confronts pressing municipal solid waste management (MSWM) issues, with limited landfill capacities and rampant illegal dumping in slum and non-slum areas, exacerbating land consumption ...
I Wayan Koko Suryawan, Chun-Hung Lee
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Background and Aims In this paper, we present a valuable and novel interdisciplinary study that applies a classic epidemiological model, Susceptible‐Infected‐Recovered (SIR) to capture the mean disease dynamics, with a novel Zubair Fréchet (ZF) distribution to model the extreme, heavy‐tailed nature of cholera outbreak sizes.
Kofi Afriyie Nyamekye +5 more
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