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Integrating resource oriented sanitation technologies with urban agriculture in developing countries: measuring the governance capacity of Arba Minch City, Ethiopia
This research study aims to assess the capacity of Arba Minch City to adopt resource-oriented sanitation technology and integrate it …
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Editorial: Mining towns and cities in the global south
EDITORIAL article Front. Sustain. Cities, 12 June 2023Sec. Cities in the Global South Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1204093
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Editorial: Urban (in)security and social justice in post-colonies
The articles in this collection draw on local experiences and practices to conceptualise and unpack the multidimensional nature of urban …
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Legalizing illegalities? Land titling and land tenure security in informal settlements
This study investigated how land rights formalization had affected land tenure security among landowners in two informal settlements of Lusaka …
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Groundwater governance for improving city water resilience in Cape Town, South Africa
Until recently, Cape Town, South Africa's second largest city relied entirely on surface water for water supply. Low rainfall between …
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Mining towns and migration: Comparing three South African cases
Introduction The South African economy has a long history of mining exploration. The first mining operations were recorded in 1852. …
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Drivers of vulnerability to health and wellbeing challenges in informal settlements
Introduction It is widely acknowledged that vulnerable populations are hit very hard, both in the short and long term, when …
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Driving the clean energy transition in Cameroon: A sustainable pathway to meet the Paris climate accord and the power supply/demand gap
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2021 report has noted the perceived rise in severe weather phenomena such as …
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Reconfigured securityscapes in Louis Trichardt: Possibilities, limitations, and contradictions
Insecurity, violence, and xenophobia manifest at different geographic scales of the South African landscape threatening to compromise, reverse, derail, and …
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Social perceptions of the value of green spaces: A view from the South
Despite the expanding scientific understanding that green spaces are substantially beneficial to urban communities and their host cities, along with …
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The regional implications of just transition in the world's most coal-dependent economy: The case of Mpumalanga, South Africa
Introduction South Africa has had an extraordinarily heavy reliance on coal to fuel its economy, and it is one of …
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Urbanization and human security in post-colonial Africa
Urbanization has been unprecedented in post-colonial Africa. While cities and towns (urban areas) are crucial to bolstering economic activities, they …
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Peri-urban agrifood systems and a landscape project in the southern Mediterranean. The case of the urban agglomeration of Sousse (Tunisia)
Peri-urban agrifood systems are often subject to urban pressure and other territorial factors, which justifies a detailed study and analysis …
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Urban (in) security in an emerging human settlement: Perspectives from Hopley Farm Settlement, Harare, Zimbabwe
This article examines the urban (in) security landscape in a postcolonial emerging human settlement in Africa. Hopley Farm Settlement is …
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Co-building trust in urban nature: Learning from participatory design and construction of Nature-Based Solutions in informal settlements in East Africa
While the amount of research on NBS is growing rapidly, there is a lack of evidence on community experiences of …
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Evaluation of the impacts of micro-business operations on the quality of urban environment: A case study of Iwo, Southwestern Nigeria
Sustainable environmental quality is a prerequisite to a sustainable human livelihood. This work evaluated the impacts of micro-business enterprises (MBEs) …
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The canary in the mine: Mediterranean mines as indicators of the hold on territories and resources: French Pyrenees, Moroccan Middle Atlas, and Tunisian coastal mountains
Mediterranean mountains have been and continue to be used by human populations along an interweaving of numerous uses: agro-sylvo-pastoralism, trade, …
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Pitiful rooftop solar uptake in sunny South Africa: A policy, funding and service delivery perspective
Despite rolling blackouts, high electricity prices, a favorable climate and the size of the South African economy, rooftop photovoltaic (PV) …
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Community adaptation strategies in Nairobi informal settlements: Lessons from Korogocho, Nairobi-Kenya
Informal settlements are often the hotspots of vulnerability as evidenced by the recurrent environmental and climate-related shocks and stressors. Despite …
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Priorities and barriers for urban ecosystem service provision: A comparison of stakeholder perspectives from three cities
Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) can provide many needed ecosystem services (ES) to help address challenges like biodiversity loss and climate …