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Ethical Governance and the Olympic Movement
Governance determines the possibilities and boundaries of what sports organizations do and the public perceptions of their values. While often opaque...
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Only Rape! Human Rights and Gender Equality for Refugee Women From Refugee Camps to the United Nations
This book charts the roller coaster ride taken by the authors over the past 33 years, in the ongoing fight to acknowledge, prevent, and respond to...
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Geoprivacy, Convenience, and the Pursuit of Anonymity in Digital Cities
Cities demand spatial efficiencies that can be achieved only through sharing of information. Current technologies support collection, processing, and...
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Jews, Jewish Institutions, and the Construction of Identity in Changing American Cities and Urban Neighborhoods
The restructuring of the American economy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has implications for the local geographies and...
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Capturing the Role of Civil Society for Urban Sustainability in Nepal
Rapid urbanisation and urban population growth raise problems for sustainability. The unplanned and haphazard patterns of urbanisation, with a...
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Religious and Ethical Orientations of Muslim Refugees
The heavy influx of refugees into Austria in 2015 rendered the integration of newcomers a particular challenge at the top of the political agenda. On...
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Cultivating Virtue: Neo-Aristotelian Concepts in Public Space Development
In this chapter we demonstrate how the insights from contemporary Aristotelian ethical and political thought might inform urban planning and...
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Gender, ethnicity and residential discrimination: interpreting implicit discriminations in Lagos rental housing market
Housing discrimination is an element of urban housing markets responsible for social sorting, exclusion, segregation and marginality. However,...
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Building Circular Economy Cities
With cities demanding around two-thirds of global energy and producing nearly 80% of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as generating significant...
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The Methodology and Methods of the Research
A qualitative approach was adopted as the research method to understand the health constraints and access to health services among rural–urban...
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Gangs, Methodology and Ethical Protocols: Ethnographic Challenges in Researching Youth Street Groups
Gangs have been described as an episodic phenomenon comparable across diverse geographical sites, with the US gang stereotype often acting as the...
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Armed Conflict and Urbanization in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique: A Methodology for a Critical Inquiry
Mainstream urban theory fails to encompass urbanization in Africa. Among its many drivers, armed conflicts displace rural populations to cities,...
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Fairness and Tax Morale in Develo** Countries
This paper investigates the relationship between individuals' attitudes towards fairness and their views about tax compliance in develo**...
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Strees in the streets. Gendered engagement with the urban space in Hindi films: a quantitative study
Cities represent intense battlefields where patriarchal norms are simultaneously defied and reinforced. In India, as elsewhere, the presence of strees ...
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Charting Access and Inclusion in Future Cities
How can access and inclusion become an integral part of the cities of the future? Initiatives such as Smart Dubai hold the answers to making...
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Urban marginality: Everyday practice of building resilience to flood in the informal Settlement of Dar es Salaam
Over decades now, urban scholars have highlighted the limitations of floods control measures in facilitating resilience especially in the cities of...
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Capabilities and Beyond: Towards an Operationalization of Eudaimonic Well-Being in a Public Space Context
In this chapter I discuss and attempt to operationalize the concept of human well-being in cities based on the Aristotelian view of human flourishing...
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Interlinkages Between Urban Metabolism and Sustainability: An Overview
Urban metabolism is a concept in which the city is examined using biological principles that relate to the internal mechanisms by which living...
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Rethinking the city resilience: COM-B model-based analysis of healthcare accessing behaviour changes affected by COVID-19
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has been influencing people’s lives and the cities. Not only people’s physical and mental health have been...
