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The Rights Distribution System for Urban Residents
In the current urbanized areas of China, the dual structure of rights because of residents’ household registration status has historical and...
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Urban Transformational Adaptation: Contestation and Struggles for Authority in the Pilot Barcelona Superblock of Poblenou
Cities’ increasing vulnerability to the effects of climate change calls for greater attention to urban transformational adaptation as a path towards...
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Urban Dynamics and the Challenge of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Africa
The proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW), their illegal use and its threat is felt by the populace, particularly those in the urban...
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Future of Agritech Startups: Perspectives from India and Japan
Global climate change poses many threats, significantly impacting crop productivity and food security. Digitalization in agriculture is envisioned to...
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Co** with COVID-19 Pandemic in Greece: A Joint Effort at the National and Urban Level
In the scenery of the unprecedented global crisis of COVID-19 pandemic, which is still challenging the planet’s social, economic and political...
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Sub-national Political Culture and COVID-19 Pandemic: Governance Response Towards Life and Livelihood Vulnerabilities of Urban Poor in India
The COVID-19 crisis has severely affected lives and livelihoods of the people in India. The most adversely impacted are the urban poor tied to the...
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Institutional Changes of Urban Governance in China
TheUrban governance municipalityMunicipality is a form of local administrative division, mainly used in urbanized areas. In the West, it originated...
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Double Tragedy’! Poverty and Inequality as Sources of Community Fragility During COVID-19 Lockdown in Zimbabwe’s Urban Spaces
Influenza pandemics are not a new phenomenon in the world today. Amongst many that affected parts of the world were the Spanish flue of 1918–1919...
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Russian experience of land reforms
The paper aimed to study land reforms in the Russian Federation from the abolition of serfdom to the present time. The research was carried out by...
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Service Learning and Stakeholder Action: Technology and Education for Urban Agriculture in Johannesburg, South Africa
This chapter reports on an ambitious action research and service-learning programme that aims to address urban food insecurity through food systems...
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The Impact of India’s Lines of Credit on the Future of India-Africa Partnership in Agriculture
Despite its abundant resources, the African continent still lags behind the rest of the world in terms of agricultural output and productivity, and...
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An Overview of Urban Associated Labour in Brazil: Positive and Negative Aspects of Self-Management in the Productive Microcosm
A structural crisis of capital has plagued workers in all parts of the world since the 1970s and brought far-reaching consequences: bankruptcy of the...
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Political Economy of Development: From Critique to Reconstruction
The discourse of development is premised on an analytical structure of ‘economic dualism’. Taking off from a class-focused perspective, this chapter...
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The Urban–Rural Gulf in American Political Behavior
Urban–rural differences in partisan political loyalty are as familiar in the United States as they are in other countries. In this paper, we examine...
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An Empirical Analysis of Sustainability Indicators in an Administrative Complex Design from Urban Planning Perspective
Afghanistan Government Administrative Complex (GAC) is a component of a new district that will relocate 30 governmental offices from the city center...
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Land Rights, Industrialization, and Urbanization: China in Comparative Context
What do studies of land rights in China contribute to the broader discipline of political science? First, the Chinese case challenges orthodox...
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Spatial Patterns and Shift in the Components of Work Participation
Before merging with the city’s expansion, the rural peri-urban region mainly relies on primary economic activities. Among the major transformations...
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India
The valley of the Indus and its tributaries is divided today between India and Pakistan. Some 7,000 years ago the valley was one of the cradles of...
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Integration of LCZ to Planning Strategies
Facing ongoing urbanization and climate change, urban dwellers are expected to suffer from an increasing number of extreme weather events with...
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Reimagining Urban Development in a Tribal Region: Readings on a Fifth Schedule Area of India
In this chapter, I examine the modes and practices of urban planning and governance in the city of Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand state, with...