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1 January 2014
Oceans and Human Health: Implications for Society and Well-Being
Published by: John Wiley and Sons
This pioneering book will be of value to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in public health, environmental, economic, and policy fields.
1 January 2014
Accountability for International Nutrition Commitment Initiatives
Published by: IDS
This paper draws on secondary data to map out a proliferating set of international nutrition commitment initiatives, and assesses how these employ accountability mechanisms to support the delivery of financial and other commitments.
18 December 2013
Making the Urban Poor Safer: Lessons from Nairobi and Maharashtra
Published by: IDS
The most impoverished neighbourhoods of Nairobi and Mumbai are characterised by severe lack of service provision, poor access to employment opportunities and urban violence.
1 November 2013
The Legacy of Inequality and Negligence in Brazil’s Unfinished Urban Transition: Lessons for Other Developing Regions
Compared to other developing countries in Asia and Africa, Brazil experienced an early urban transition. Cities, especially large ones, already concentrate most of the country's population and economic activity. However, an underlying structure of inequality persists in urban areas, reflecting a historical reluctance to accept urban growth or to steer markets and planned developments towards meeting the housing needs of the poor.
30 September 2013
Urban Settings as an Opportunity for Realizing All Child Rights
Published by: UNICEF
This brief focuses on the challenges posed by urban poverty and exclusion, and the need to ensure that urban settings live up to their potential for realizing the rights of all children as the region continues to develop rapidly.
2 September 2013
Housing Density and Housing Preference in Bangkok’s Low-income Settlements
Published by: IIED
The traditional view of a low-income informal settlement is of overcrowded space that has both high population density within its land area and within each dwelling. This paper investigates whether this high density is observed in practice, and whether it is perpetuated in other forms of low-income housing, both community-developed (in settlements upgraded through participatory processes) and public housing.
9 August 2013
Unemployment, Service Provision and Violence Reduction Policies in Urban Maharashtra
Published by: IDS
This report analyses the relationship between violence and economic vulnerability among urban populations in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
7 August 2013
The Climate Change – Migration – Urbanisation Nexus: Workshop Report
Published by: IDS
The concept of the ‘Climate Change – Migration – Urbanisation’ nexus emerged from the recognition that climate change, migration, and urbanisation are closely and intimately linked together, and can potentially become sources of vulnerability.
1 August 2013
Water and Ill-being: Displaced People and Dam-based Development in India
Published by: Berghahn Books
Chapter 3 in The Social Life of Water, Edited by John Richard Wagner: 'Water and Ill-being: Displaced People and Dam-based Development in India,' by Lyla Mehta.