Urban governance
- Urban renewal: at whose cost?
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This paper argues that in order to ensure shelter for all, the provisions of the Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act must be strictly implemented, basti sabhas on the lines of gram sabhas must be set up and poor localities should be treated not as encroachments but as service guilds.
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- Developing the Urban Governance Index
- ( United Nations Human Settlements Programme , 2004)
- UN-HABITAT’s Global Campaign on Urban Governance supports the implementation of the Habitat Agenda and contributes to the eradication of poverty through improved urban governance. The Urban Gove...
- Citizens report card to measure governance
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- This article focuses on Citizens Report Card as a techniques to empirically measure governments’ performance. ...
- Globalisation and the impact of macrodynamics on water commodification
- ( P. Bond / Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal , 2008)
- This paper argues that understanding the link between global capitalist crisis macrodynamics and water commodification trends requires a discussion of the crucial intervening public management strateg...
- Is household-centred environmental sanitation planning a new approach to handling urban sanitation?
- ( S. Thammanosouth (ed);M. Duangnouluck (ed);T. Chanthala (ed) / NCCR North South , 2005)
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This paper looks at the Household-Centred Environmental Sanitation Planning (HCES) as an approach to environmental sanitation. The HCES approach is a radical departure from past central planning ap...
- Afghanistan's informal settlements: a prescription for livelihood insecurity and poverty
- ( S. Schutte;B. Bauer / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2007)
- Informal settlements have proliferated in Afghan cities as a result of conflict and drought. The fall of the Taliban in 2001 increased the spread of urbanisation due to returning refugees seeking empl...
- Improving city management: lessons from the Philippines' public governance system.
- ( K. E. Bettcher / Center for International Private Enterprise , 2008)
- Since 1986, the Philippines has struggled to establish a democracy capable of addressing the needs of all levels of society. Political turmoil has shaken public confidence in governing institutions an...
- Understanding urban environmental changes in Latin America
- ( R.S. Rodriguez;A. Bonilla / Inter American Institute for Global Change Research, Brazil , 2008)
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Despite the central role of urban areas in socio-economic and geo-political change processes at the local, regional, and global level, as well as in the regional and global biophysical processes, l...
- Lessons from 'Right to Land' in Rio de Janeiro
- ( P. Pelegrino / Mercatus Center, George Mason University , 2008)
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This paper describes, contextualises and analyses the experience of the Bento Rubião Foundation in relation to its right to land project.
As part of this project, the Foundation ... - Stiffled housing market leads to growth of slums in Africa
- ( K. Boudreaux / Mercatus Center, George Mason University , 2008)
- As Africa’s slums expand, international organisations, NGOs, and governments themselves call for strong public-sector action to deal with the problems in these settlements and to limit their exp...
- How to address and prevent land conflicts
- ( B. Wehrmann / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2008)
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Land conflicts often have extensive negative effects on economic, social, spatial and ecological development. This is especially true in developing countries and countries in transition, where land...
