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Understanding the interactions between biowaste valorisation and the Sustainable Development Goals: insights from an early transition stage International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Eftychia Ntostoglou, Daniel Ddiba, Dilip Khatiwada, Viktoria Martin, Rebecka Ericsdotter Engström, Maryna Henrysson, Katia Lasaridi
The valorisation of urban biowaste can contribute to a circular and sustainable resource management. However, biowaste valorisation is not inherently sustainable. This study employs the Sustainable...
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Geographically induced and the spatially differentiated dimension of flood vulnerability in Greater Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Anthony Kwabena Sarfo, Ebenezer Owusu-Sekyere, Alfred Toku, Nelson Nyabanyi N-Yanbini
Over the past several years, the constant flooding events and their lethal consequences have reignited the debate on the need for vulnerability assessment of flood-prone communities in urban areas ...
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Development delusions and contradictions: an anatomy of the foreign aid industry International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Geoffrey Payne
Published in International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Introducing an integrative evaluation framework for assessing the sustainability of different types of urban agriculture International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Henriette John, Martina Artmann
In cities, a mosaic of different types of urban agriculture can be found. However, knowledge about advantages and disadvantages of the different types is still fragmented. This paper introduces an ...
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Evaluation of the urban Land use plan’s effectiveness in achieving resource efficiency: the case of Bahir Dar city- Ethiopia International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Behailu Melesse Digafe, Achamyeleh Gashu Adam, Gebeyehu Belay Shibeshi
Urban land use plans (ULUPs) contribute to the efficient use of resources for sustainable urban development. However, the metered contribution of Bahir Dar’s ULUPs to the efficient use of resources...
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Engaging the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 in strategic governance of “Europe’s most sustainable city” International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Anni Halko, Raine Mäntysalo, Eva Purkarthofer
In the face of the climate crisis, cities have committed to ambitious sustainability targets. The UN Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a globally shared language f...
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Exploring Information communication Technology-enabled travel Pattern in a city region of India International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Dillip Kumar Das, Sanjaykumar G Sonar, Mohamed Mostafa Hassan Mostafa
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is advocated to contribute to sustainable transportation by prompting a change in travel patterns. Therefore, using an ICT-enabled city region in Indi...
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Planning, Sustainable Urbanisation and the Commonwealth: The Commonwealth Association of Planners, Past, Present and Future International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Geoffrey Payne
Published in International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Novel criteria for sustainable use of urban spaces under bridges in cities by applying DEMATEL technique International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Shaimaa H. Zaki, Azza G. Haggag, Ahmed M. Selim
At the beginning of the 21st century, cities suffered from high traffic density and mobility problems due to rapid urbanisation and population growth. Bridges were built to encounter these challeng...
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How urbanisation shapes availability of provisioning ecosystem services in peri-urban Ghana International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Ibrahim Abu Abdulai, Issaka Kanton Osumanu
Provisioning ecosystem services are under threat in peripheral areas in African cities due to urbanisation pressures. Previous studies have focused on land conversion and food crop production. How ...
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What motivates urban climate leaders? A study of urban climate governance in eight Swedish municipalities International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Daniel Lindvall
ABSTRACT This paper explores the motivations behind urban climate governance in eight Swedish municipalities. The study demonstrates that political consensus among, and willingness of, urban political leaders is of importance for motivating climate actions. Municipalities are moreover motivated by the accomplishments of other cities, national and subnational policies, and an increasing climate concern
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Applying multi-criteria decision analysis to prioritise age-friendly criteria for policy implications International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Sashi Bhusan Raut
ABSTRACT Significant increase in the proportion of elderly and its expected further increase in the days to come draw attention of policymakers, practitioners, and researchers to enhance a community’s age-friendliness. Enhancement of a community’s age-friendliness requires appropriate policy implications recommended by various stakeholders based on Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) followed by
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Pathways to Urban Equality through the Sustainable Development Goals: Modes of Extreme Poverty, Resilience, and Prosperity International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Allan Lavell, Colin McFarlane, Henrietta L. Moore, Saffron Woodcroft, Christopher Yap
ABSTRACT There has been a tendency for debates around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to focus on particular Goals or Targets. What tends to get lost, however, is the bigger picture. In this paper we ask: to what extent and under what conditions do the SDGs offer a pathway to equality? Specifically, we focus on the potentials of the SDGs as a pathway to urban equality in the decade of delivery
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Towards climate action and UN sustainable development goals in BRICS economies: do export diversification, fiscal decentralisation and environmental innovation matter? International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Maxwell Chukwudi Udeagha, Nicholas Ngepah
ABSTRACT Several nations across the world place a high focus on achieving carbon reduction objectives. Climate change is the most catastrophic result of human activity. Eco-innovation, export diversification, and fiscal decentralization are all viable approaches for resolving environmental concerns and achieving environmental sustainability goals. These tactics could help countries and levels of government
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Encouraging household energy conservation through transdisciplinary approaches in Ghana and South Africa: assumptions, challenges and guidelines International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Gladman Thondhlana, Akosua Baah Kwarteng Amaka-Otchere, Sheunesu Ruwanza
ABSTRACT Transdisciplinary research has gained traction globally for mapping pathways for sustainable urbanisation. The involvement of local communities is believed to central to knowledge co-production needed to address sustainability challenges. But working with local communities can be challenging. This paper is structured around the authors’ personal reflections on undertaking transdisciplinary
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Nature-inclusive urban development: lessons learned in three real estate projects in Dutch cities International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Thomas J.M. Mattijssen, Marijke W.C. Dijkshoorn-Dekker, Harry J.M. Kortstee, Nico B.P. Polman, Robbert Snep
ABSTRACT An increasing number of real estate actors appear to be searching for ways to incorporate nature and biodiversity in urban development projects. In this article, we study three Dutch urban development projects with high biodiversity ambitions in order to learn how they came to fruition. We combine transition theory with practice theory and identify key barriers and drivers on the basis of
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Urban agriculture, local economic development and climate change: conceptual linkages International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-05-08 James Kwame Mensah
ABSTRACT Globally, cities have become hubs for economic activity, productivity, and important platforms for achieving sustainable development goals. The potential of urban agriculture (UA) in improving urban local economies and urban micro-climate has been acknowledged in the literature. The study looked at how the concepts of UA, local economic development (LED), and climate change can be treated
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Economic risk assessment of climate change at the city level. The case of Cape Town, South Africa International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Martin de Wit, Jonty Rawlins, Belynda Petrie
ABSTRACT Estimating the economic risks of climate shocks and climate stressors on spatially heterogeneous cities over time remains highly challenging. The purpose of this paper is to present a practical methodology to assess the economic risks of climate change in middle-income cities to inform municipal climate response strategies. Building on a capital-based framework (CBF), spatially disaggregated
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Pathways to Industrialisation and Urban Spatial Outcomes: The Case of Addis Ababa - Bishoftu Economic Growth Corridor, Ethiopia International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Melaku Tanku, Berhanu Woldetensae
ABSTRACT Economic developments affect urban land-use changes. Using Lefebvre’s production of (urban) space as a conceptual framework, this study investigated the industrialisation process and its urban spatial outcomes in three cities (Galan, Dukem, and Bishoftu) along the southern outlet of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. Landsat images were used to quantify the changing patterns of the three cities
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Place (un)making through soft urban densification: exploring local experiences of density and place attachment in Tehran International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Vafa Dianati, Catalina Turcu
ABSTRACT The relationship between urban density and social conditions in urban areas has received increasing attention in recent research. However, there is a lack of understanding of the dynamics between urban densification and these social conditions from a place-specific perspective, taking into account the institutional, socio-cultural, and contextual complexities. This paper seeks to enhance this
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Land-use and land cover change dynamics in urban Ghana: implications for peri-urban livelihoods International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Suale Iddrisu, Alhassan Siiba, Joseph Alhassan, Kabila Abass
ABSTRACT This paper examined the dynamics of urban land use and land cover change, and their implications for livelihoods in peri-urban Tamale, Ghana. The study employed household data and Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) for 1986, Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM +) for 2004 and Landsat 8 Operationalised Landsat Imager/Thermal Infrared Sensor (OLIS/TIRS) for 2019. The findings show that the urban expansion
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Ways to go? (Un)sustainable school commuting in Majorna, Gothenburg city International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Beniamin Knutsson, Sofie Hellberg
ABSTRACT Gothenburg city has bold ambitions of becoming carbon neutral. School commuting is one piece of the puzzle in reducing emissions. While the literature on school transportation is extensive, the issue of climate change has been overlooked. This article explores how parents in the district of Majorna understand mundane choices of school transportation in a context of increasing recognition of
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Governance challenges of regularisation of informal settlements in peri-urban Tanzania: perspectives from local stakeholders International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Said Nuhu, Neema Munuo, Lazaro Mngumi
ABSTRACT The regularisation of informal settlements has become a common initiative for addressing urban development and growth in many cities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, its governance is still complex and unexplored. This study thus aims to examine and understand the governance challenges of regularising informal settlements in peri-urban Tanzania. A case study design with a combination of discussions
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Simulating the re-concentration of dispersed habitation in the peripheral urban area using an artificial society approach International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Hideyuki Nagai, Setsuya Kurahashi
ABSTRACT This study proposes an exploratory urban morphology agent-based model (ABM) to simulate the combined impact of the establishment of hub facilities that urban residents can conveniently access, policies for promoting human interactions around them, and the introduction of trams amidst dispersed habitations in peripheral urban areas. The proposed model offers a new perspective on ways to improve
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Flood-related challenges and impacts within coastal informal settlements: a case from LAGOS, NIGERIA International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun
ABSTRACT This study considers climate impacts and environmental challenges (flooding and sea-level rise) in one of the coastal informal settlements in Lagos, Nigeria. A mix of methods was used to generate data. First, 14 residents, selected through purposive sampling, were interviewed. A survey (sample size = 300) of residents was conducted as a follow-up to the interviews. To elicit information on
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Urbanization against ecologically sensitive areas: effects of land use activities on surface water bodies in the Kumasi Metropolis International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Stephen Appiah Takyi, Owusu Amponsah, Godfred Darko, Charles Peprah, Richard Apatewen Azerigyik, Gabriel Kofi Mawuko, Augustine Awolorinke Chiga
ABSTRACT The increase in human activities in urban areas resulting from the urbanisation process continues to put immense pressure on urban ecological resources including water bodies. This study seeks to assess the relationship between the various categories of human activities within the 100 m buffer of the major water bodies in the Kumasi Metropolis and the chemical and biological composition of
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A perspective for transforming central areas of South African cities into great places International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Dillip Kumar Das
ABSTRACT The city centres of South African cities are in the process of degeneration and need transformation. The study assessed the current scenario of the various physical, spatial, and socio-economic attributes of central areas of three South African cities and explored how they can be transformed into great places. The challenges related to physical and visual elements, liveability, social and
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Legal land tenure programmes: security and precarity of the poor in Urban India International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Banashree Banerjee
ABSTRACT This essay discusses the veracity of legal tenure granted to informal settlers on public land in the context of top-down neo-liberal policies superimposed on an already existing regime of urban regulations and welfare measures. It raises questions regarding the fairness of practices where the poor pay the price for changing development models. Insights from Madhya Pradesh (MP) state in India
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Affordable housing for low-income households through floor area ratio incentive: the case of Manohara settlement in Kathmandu, Nepal International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Prabhakar Lal Karn, Joon Park
ABSTRACT The mismatch between the fast-growing urban population and limited urban infrastructure has become a challenge in many emerging cities. The lack of affordable housing leads to burgeoning informal settlements and Manohara informal settlement in Kathmandu is not an exception. This study aims to investigate the current situation in Manohara informal settlement and examine the feasibility of floor
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Conceptualising sound making and sound loss in the urban heritage environment International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Murray Parker, Dirk HR Spennemann
ABSTRACT Human existence is complemented by environmental sounds as by-products of people’s activities as well as intentionally generated sounds that allow human society to function, including transport and traffic sounds and notification sounds. The resulting soundscapes surround and permeate people’s daily existence. Technological, as well as behavioural change causes some of these sounds to become
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Challenges to implementing circular development – lessons from London International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Jo Williams
ABSTRACT Circular development creates more resource efficient, adaptive, and ecologically healthy cities. Circular food and construction systems; the ecological regeneration of contaminated brownfield sites and circular tactical urbanism are just some of the processes and systems adopted by those implementing a circular development pathway. These produce benefits, however, there are many challenges
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Introduction International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Geoffrey Payne
Published in International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development (Vol. 14, No. 1, 2022)
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Community-led development and collective land tenure for environmental justice: the case of the Caño Martín Peña community land trust, Puerto Rico International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Mariangela Veronesi, Line Algoed, María E. Hernández Torrales
ABSTRACT Community-led land ownership can contribute to environmental justice in disaster-prone areas, particularly as it protects vulnerable communities from market-driven displacement often occurring after natural disasters. The article reviews literature linking the climate emergency with disaster resilience and collective land-based models. It brings into focus the case of the Caño Martín Peña
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Exposing urban sustainability transitions: urban expansion in Alexandria, Egypt International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Ahmed M. Soliman, Yahya A. Soliman
ABSTRACT Based on a case study of Alexandria city, Egypt, this paper investigates the configuration, interrelation, and integration of urban expansion within the framework of sustainability transitions to enhance the performance of sociotechnical transitions. It explores two main arguments; first, to evaluate the recent urban planning innovations, and second, to raise awareness of the participatory
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Social capital vs. anonymity? 3Ds Urban form and social capital development in Indonesian cities International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Irfani Fithria Ummul Muzayanah, Suahasil Nazara, Benedictus Raksaka Mahi, Djoni Hartono
ABSTRACT Discussions on the relationship between urban form and social capital have garnered attention for a long time as they are well documented in the literature. However, the empirical analysis regarding these two issues is still limited. This study proposes a new perspective on the link between the 3Ds (Density, Diversity, and Design) element of urban form and social capital in the global south
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The changing role of employment and alternative income sources among the urban poor: a systematic literature review International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-06-09 V. Pérez, A. Hernández-Solano, G. Teruel, M. Reyes
ABSTRACT We perform a systematic review of the literature on the association between income, employment, and urban poverty from a multidisciplinary perspective. Our results, derived from the analysis of 243 articles, confirm the significant role of employment in the urban poor’s lives, highlighting several factors that constrain their ability to improve their labour market outcomes: lack of access
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Using energy justice to contextualise existing challenges of wood charcoal against faecal sludge derived briquettes as a future cooking fuel alternative in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Laura M. S. Fløytrup, Sara Gabrielsson, Petro Mwamlima
ABSTRACT Over half of the population in Dar es Salaam (DSM), Tanzania, predominately relies on wood charcoal as a cooking fuel, and this is expected to rise to meet future demands. Drawing on the energy justice framework, this article contextualises the current charcoal supply chain of DSM and discusses the possibility of using faecal sludge-derived briquettes (FS briquettes) as a future alternative
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The differential impacts of socioeconomic status on vulnerability in urban contexts: a probit analysis of older women in the United States International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Fred Olayele, Poorvi Goel
ABSTRACT This paper integrates a unique dimension of gender in the analysis of economic vulnerability in urban contexts by focusing on women aged 50 and older. We use a probit model to predict the likelihood of vulnerability with a zero-one dummy dependent variable, and four categories of socioeconomic characteristics as predictors: educational attainment, labour market participation, individual demographics
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Policy coherence between climate change adaptation and urban policies in Ghana: implications for adaptation planning in African cities International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Abubakari Ahmed, Bernard Afiik A Akanbang, Michael Poku-Boansi, Emmanuel K Derbile
ABSTRACT African urban areas and cities are primarily seen as vulnerable to climate change. Apparent attempts to get required policies have led to the widespread proliferation of overlapping and duplications of policies. Using a policy coherence framework, this study aims to synthesise the coherency of climate adaptation and urban policies in Ghana. The study used content analysis of existing policy
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Sustainable urban housing policies in the era of post-covid climate change mitigation International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Patrick Wakely
ABSTRACT This paper briefly reviews recent and current approaches to the formulation and implementation of urban housing policies in towns and cities in the global South, with emphasis on local government-community participation and partnerships. It looks ahead into the implications of the lasting impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and tenets of climate change that will constitute the ‘New Normal’.
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Urban service co-production and technology: nine key issues International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Giuseppe Faldi, Marco Ranzato, Luisa Moretto
ABSTRACT This special issue investigates the role of technology in the co-production of urban services through six empirical articles based on case-studies from Asia, Africa and South America. This topic has not received yet extensive attention in the literature, despite the emergence of technology as the key mediator between the material and immaterial elements of co-production practice. Based on
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Sustainable urban development. Cuban challenges International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Dania González Couret
ABSTRACT This contribution starts with the evolution of the main theoretical approaches through the last thirty years and some key principles for urban sustainability, followed by reflections about sustainable development in Cuba as well as challenges to improve it in urban areas, and closing with some final reflections. Approaches about the sustainable city have been changing during the last three
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In the garden: capacities that contribute to community groups establishing community gardens International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Dr Gerard Doyle
ABSTRACT Based on case studies in Dublin, Ireland, this paper examines the motives for individuals to establish community gardens therein. The paper also outlines the capacities required for community groups to successfully establish and sustain community gardens in Ireland. These capacities include the involvement of individuals with a range of expertise, the presence of supportive community groups/organisations
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Tenure security and property rights: the case of land titling for ‘slum’ dwellers in Odisha, India International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Shobha Rao P., Jaime Royo-Olid, Jan Turkstra
ABSTRACT India continues to urbanise rapidly tinged with sub-standard living conditions of a growing ‘slum’ population. Improving the living conditions of slum-dwellers remains a gargantuan and intractable challenge requiring solutions at scale grounded on households’ real experience of the process. The State of Odisha, in Eastern India, is currently implementing a state-wide land-titling initiative
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Territorial peace: land governance and sustainable peacebuilding International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Francesca Vanelli, Daniela Ochoa Peralta
ABSTRACT Conflicts have a strong impact on land tenure, use, distribution, accessibility, and governance; consequently, a sustainable strategy for peacebuilding requires the set-up of land-based institutional arrangements from the peace negotiation phase onwards. Based on the concept of territorial peace, these arrangements have a key role in the reconstruction of the collective, productive, and symbolic
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Learning from urban projects: why and how we should unlock the learning potential of urban development projects and programmes International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Forbes Davidson
ABSTRACT Urban projects are developed partly to solve local problems but often have wider aims to influence policy and practise. However, there is very little long-term evaluation carried out, and few systematic efforts to link the experience gained in project development and implementation to wider learning and capacity building. I have written this opinion piece based on my experience both in practise
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The role of network participation in climate change mitigation: a city-level analysis International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Milja Heikkinen
ABSTRACT Cities and networks play an important role in climate change mitigation. Various international, regional, and local networks seek to increase cooperation between cities or between cities and other stakeholders. However, we still have a poor understanding of how these formalised networks help cities to mitigate climate change at different levels of urban climate governance. Here, I analyse
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Culture, territory and action: the Providência favela’s response to Covid-19 International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Giovana Cruz, Clemens van Loyen, Fernanda Sánchez
ABSTRACT This article examines the creation and activities of the Emergency Committee known as SOS Providência – Região Portuária, a community initiative formed during the Covid-19 pandemic by cultural organisations and agents already active in the Providência favela and other neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro’s port area. The aim of this paper is to understand the forms of collective action of the
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Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PGIS) to assess water, energy and food availability in a vulnerable community in Guarulhos (Brazil) International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Carolina Monteiro de Carvalho, Leandro Luiz Giatti, Nora Fagerholm, Ana Maria Bedran-Martins, Marketta Kytta
ABSTRACT Water, energy, and food are a key approach for addressing urban sustainability. The demand for those basic living resources will increase in the coming decades, jeopardising urban sustainability, especially in peripheral urban areas. This makes necessary to apply methods to improve social participation to better assess the availability of urban nexus resources (water, energy and food – WEF)
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Community acceptance studies in the field of vertical farming—A critical and systematic analysis to advance the conceptualisation of community acceptance in Kuala Lumpur International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-12-14 Fatemeh Kalantari, Narges Akhyani
ABSTRACT Vertical farming (VF) is a new idea for supplying food inside the cities. Therefore, there is a lack of academic research concerning community acceptance (CA) of VF. This study aims to identify the CA factors of VF in Kuala Lumpur (KL). The results are based on interviews with experts as well as a questionnaire survey, that says eight factors, Perceived Benefit, Perceived Risk, Location, Demographic
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Parks, plans, and human needs: Metro Manila’s unrealised urban plans and accidental public green spaces International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Czarina Saloma, Erik Akpedonu
ABSTRACT Planned after the City Beautiful Movement and Garden City Movement, Manila City and Quezon City, now among Metro Manila’s 16 cities, did not result in the desired outcomes of their planners. The history of unfulfilled visions that began with Burnham’s 1905 Plan for Manila repeated in similar fashion in Quezon City in its 1949 Frost-Arellano Plan. How do Metro Manila’s public green spaces,
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Pit emptying subsidy vouchers: a two-phased targeting and structuring experiment in Blantyre, Malawi International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-10-21 Wrixon Mpanang’ombe, Billy Bray, Elizabeth Tilley
ABSTRACT The removal of excreta or faecal sludge from full pit latrines – pit emptying – is essential to extend the life of the sanitation technology, especially for the millions of users living in the dense, urban areas of the Global South. Unfortunately, pit-emptying is rarely practiced due to factors related to accessibility, disgust, and importantly, cost. We examined the impact of two different
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E-scooters: competition with shared bicycles and relationship to public transport International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Łukasz Nawaro
ABSTRACT E-scooters have recently emerged as an alternative means of transportation in cities. It remains unclear whether e-scooters compete for users with bicycles – another mode of shared micromobility. Their relationship to public transport can be complementary or substitutionary, and it has not been ascertained which effect prevails. This paper contributes to answering these questions using empirical
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The zero-energy challenge in districts. Introduction of a methodological decision-making approach in the case of the district of Cuesmes in Belgium International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-10-11 Sesil Koutra, Noémie Denayer, Nikolaos-Fivos Galatoulas, Vincent Becue, Christos S. Ioakimidis
ABSTRACT Transforming cities with the aim of achieving cleaner energy targets is a major bet worldwide, dealing with the immense stress of the rapid urbanisation, the depletion of natural resources, the climate change and its impacts during the post-industrialised period. Struggling with this problematic, in this work we develop a horizontal and cross-sectoral process as an integral part of the city
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Evaluation of QoL in cities of diverse neighbourhood typologies: A scientific study of New Delhi International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Shilpi Mittal, Jayprakash Chadchan, Sudipta K Mishra
ABSTRACT Quality of life (QoL) in urban areas is increasingly finding prominence in practice. There are numerous studies interlinking residential built environment and QoL at the city level but very few at the suburban level particularly for neighbourhoods. This research aims to prepare an analytical framework and a mathematical model to evaluate neighbourhood QoL as a function of its varying built
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A method to measure perceived tenure security in low-income settlements in India International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-09-09 Rohit Lahoti
ABSTRACT The nature of tenure ‘contracts’ that exist within the low-income settlements involves more than title deeds. Accordingly, ‘tenure security’ manifests itself beyond legal or de jure construction as it also involves de facto forms of tenure and dweller’s perception of security. The perceived tenure security is in turn a function of people’s lived experiences which shape the trust they may grant
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Chiefs, land professionals and hybrid planning in Tamale and Techiman, Ghana: Implications for sustainable urban development International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Millicent Awialie Akaateba, Abubakari Ahmed, Daniel Kweku Baah Inkoom
ABSTRACT A dual land administration system in Ghana necessitates the adoption of hybrid and locally adaptive planning practices. However, whilst the scholarly discourse on hybrid planning is burgeoning, its implications for sustainable urban development are limited. Using qualitative case studies of data collected from interviews and focus group discussions with key stakeholders in Tamale and Techiman
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Slum Upgrading beyond incubation: exploring the dilemmas of nation-wide large scale policy interventions in Brazil´s growth acceleration programme (PAC) International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Rosana Denaldi, Adauto Lucio Cardoso
(2021). Slum Upgrading beyond incubation: exploring the dilemmas of nation-wide large scale policy interventions in Brazil´s growth acceleration programme (PAC) International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 530-545.
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Bringing the Global to the Local: the challenges of multi-level governance for global policy implementation in Africa International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-08-12 Sylvia Croese, Michael Oloko, David Simon, Sandra C. Valencia
ABSTRACT The New Urban Agenda (NUA) and Agenda 2030’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise the key role of ‘sub-national entities’, including cities, in achieving sustainable development. However, since these global policy agendas were agreed and signed by national governments, implementing them at the local level requires a process of localisation to fit local realities. This paper analyses
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Factors influencing urban environmental sustainability actions─an investigation on urban public space in the study area International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Ssu-Hsien Chen
ABSTRACT What are patterns, outcomes, and factors emerging from the urban environmental sustainability actions? To what extent do the conditions of action arenas facilitate urban environmental actions? In this research, the community-level public space named ‘neighbourhood activity centres’ in Taipei City is observed and investigated. Besides the field observation effort, a data set is established