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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne +10 more
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International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2022 Background: The rapid migration from rural to urban region results in mushrooming of slums in India. Urban-slums are comparatively poor vulnerable groups which are mostly affected with oral cancer due to higher exposure to risk factors like tobacco use ...
Vibha Joshi +2 more
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City of slums: self-organisation across scales [PDF]
, 2002 The city is certainly a fine example of a complex system, where the parts can only be understood through the whole, and the whole is more than the simple sum of the parts. In the present paper we explore the idea that some of these parts are themselves
Barros, Joana +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane +7 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The current study examines the impact of economic growth, urbanization, trade openness, and energy consumption on climate change among four G7 countries: the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), Japan, and Germany. For this, the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was used, and to assess the model's fitness ...
Arvind Goswami +3 more
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Social Sciences, 2021 Instead of criminalizing slums, the global discourse on slums and urban poor is changing towards integration, rehabilitation, and internationalizing cities.
Arslan Waheed
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Urban sustainability assessments in Latin America have relied predominantly on institutional and technical indicators, leaving resident perceptions—a critical dimension of policy legitimacy—systematically underexplored. This study addresses that gap through a comparative analysis of how residents perceive sustainable urban development across ...
Juan Camilo Mesa‐Bedoya +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Environmental sustainability has become a central priority on the global agenda amid climate urgency, biodiversity loss, and commitments under the 2030 Agenda. Economies face increasing pressure to adopt development models aligned with climate neutrality and ecological transition.
Germán López‐Pérez +3 more
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The influence of television on children and adolescents in an urban slum
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2010 Sir, When television first came to India on September 15, 1959 was named as “Doordarshan”(DD) the national television network of India, nobody had ever thought that within a span of less than 50 years, it would cover more than 70 million homes giving a viewing population of 480 million.
Raghav Pankaja, Kumar Alok
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Design Opportunities and Challenges in Indian Urban Slums-Community Communication and Mobile Phones [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis investigates the area of community communication for marginalized communities belonging to Indian urban slums. The aim of the thesis is to identify design challenges and opportunities for mobile based community communication services for ...
Singh, Abhigyan
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