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Cities’ Health Dimension Post-pandemic: Brazil Urban Planning Aspects
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered great humanitarian challenges, mainly related to the characteristics of today’s cities. This scenario demonstrated...
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Social Inequalities in Health
Differences in health between social groups based on these social determinants are known as social inequalities in health. The findings of empirical...
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Climate change adaptation networks for small and medium-sized cities
Cities are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Many larger cities have identified the potential impacts of different climate...
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Exploring the Determinants of Urban Resilience Against Pandemics: Case of Four Large Indian Cities
Cities are the epicenters of people and economic activities but with Covid-19 affecting both lives and livelihood, all economic activities have been...
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The Enabling Environment for Informal Food Traders in Nigeria’s Secondary Cities
Informal vendors are a critical source of food security for urban residents in African cities. However, the livelihoods of these traders, and the...
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Informal electronic waste recycling in Ghanaian cities: environmental risks awareness and attitudes
This paper examines the awareness and attitudes of electronic waste (e-waste) workers about the environmental risks of e-waste activities in two...
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Cities of the Future
In the previous chapter, we examined the limits of urban micro-interventions from a Jacobsian Market Urbanist framework. Here we use that framework...
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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Response to COVID-19 in Africa: Towards Healthy Cities
The present study aims to ascertain how corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be used to establish and maintain citizen health within African...
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Exploring a Framework for Identifying neighbourhood-based Support Services Catering to the Quality of Life (QoL) of Older Adults: Discussion on Findings from Two Indian Cities
The loss of family-based support services along with the preference of the older adults to age-in-place, have increased the importance of...
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Accessible Tourism in Spain: How Are Smart Cities Performing?
This chapter links the issues of accessibility and smartness in tourism in Spain, taking the study conducted by Ivars-Baidal et al. (Sustainable...
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The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement: From Cholera to COVID-19
The Healthy Cities/Communities Movement (HC/CM) began in Toronto Canada in the 1980s. It was readily adopted by the WHO European Regional Office and...
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Liveability Versus Sustainability in Spanish Cities: First Evidences Using Synthetic Indicators
The aim of liveable, sustainable cities has become one of the major challenges for urban planning. However, achieving both goals at the same time is...
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Temporality and Permanency in the Study of Border Cities and Migration
This chapter synthesises the analytical reflections from three chapters in this volume’s fourth part on Border Cities and Migration (Chap....
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Mechanism of Collecting Urban Data for Application on Smart Cities
Access to a city’s limited resources has been negatively affecting the lives of billions around the world, due to population rapid growth. In the...
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Alleviation of Health Inequity Through Improvement of Health Literacy
The WHO views health systems as all the activities which aim at promoting, restoring, or maintaining health. For the benefit of mankind, WHO’s...
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Health Geography of COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of the Pandemic during its First Phase in the Compact Cities of Barcelona and Madrid, Spain
COVID-19 has affected every aspect of life around the globe. To understand the spread of disease it is essential to record location and place, space...
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Spatial equity in urban facility versus residents’ satisfaction: challenge for the unplanned cities—a case study of Barasat city, India
Spatial equity in urban facilities or service distribution is considered as a critical determinant of the quality of urbanization. Spatial equity...
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Global Health Diplomacy and Commodified Health Care: Health Tourism in Malaysia and Thailand
National governments have reinvigorated health tourism since COVID-19 by promoting health and medical technologies that target global health goals...
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Contextualising Waste Management Operations Towards Low-Carbon African Cities
Waste management in cities is influenced by the rapid increase in population due to rural-urban migration and a growing middle class. This is an...
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The Economic Landscape of Cities and Climate Change
This introductory chapter surveys how climate change, accelerated by an urban demographic boom and rapid urbanisation, impacts people’s livelihoods...