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Naledzani Mudau and Paidamwoyo Mhangara
Research on the detection of informal settlements has increased in the past three decades owing to the availability of high- to very-high-spatial-resolution satellite imagery. The achievement of development goals, such as the Sustainable Development Goal...
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Jason Corburn, Patrick Njoroge, Jane Weru and Maureen Musya
Urban informal settlements or slums are among the most vulnerable places to climate-change-related health risks. Yet, little data exist documenting environmental and human health vulnerabilities in slums or how to move research to action. Citizen science...
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Dana R. Thomson, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Gregory Yetman, Peter Elias and Robert Chen
Low- and middle-income country cities face unprecedented urbanization and growth in slums. Gridded population data (e.g., ~100 × 100 m) derived from demographic and spatial data are a promising source of population estimates, but face limitations in slum...
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Ramisa Shafqat, Dora Marinova and Shahed Khan
This paper provides an alternative perspective on urban informal settlements by analysing them as places of rural remnants, reservoirs of regional cultural heritage, and spaces entailing traditional sustainable elements that are brought to the urban real...
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Rocío Rodríguez Tarducci, Mariana Birche, Daniela Cortizo
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En urbanizaciones informales, los espacios públicos son de suma importancia para la recreación, socialización e incluso también para la economía de estas comunidades. Ante la amenaza del COVID-19, el funcionamiento, los requerimientos y características d...
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Subhashree Nath and Raphael Karutz
Liveability assessments of informal urban settlements are scarce. In India, a number of slum upgrading schemes have been implemented over the last decades aiming at better living conditions. However, these schemes rarely consider improvement in liveabili...
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Mohamed Beshir, Karim Omar, Felipe Roman Centeno, Samuel Stevens, Lesley Gibson and David Rush
According to recent UN reports, it is estimated that more than one billion people live in informal settlements globally, exposing them to a large potential fire risk. In previous research, it was found that the main fire spread mechanism between dwelling...
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Ida Hamida,Wiwik Dwi Pratiwi,Esti Istiqomah
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ABSTRACT :Water edges settlement development has always have strong relationship with its water bodies be it lake or river. For example, by the road?settlement would face the road as main transportation cum logistic facility. On the other hand, along wat...
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Jeff Romm, Esther Conrad and Inger Elisabeth Måren
Highly variable water regimes, such as California?s, contain distinctive problems in the pursuit of secure timing, quantities and distributions of highly variable flows. Their formal and informal systems of water control must adapt rapidly to forceful an...
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Zaheer Allam and David Sydney Jones
Cotonou is the largest city and main economic centre of the nation of Benin, Africa. Following independence, the city has experienced major population growth resulting in the extensive development of slums on flood plains and marshes causing the loss of ...
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