Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums

Ecology and Quality of Life in Urban Slums

Author: Rekha Sinha

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9788180693731

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This book attempts at upgradation of slums and squatter settlements in the cities of Munger and Bhagalpur with a view to highlight the socio-economic life of the urban society in terms of environmental pollution.


Multidimensional Approach to Quality of Life Issues

Multidimensional Approach to Quality of Life Issues

Author: Braj Raj Kumar Sinha

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-08-27

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 9811369585

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This comprehensive volume provides a broad overview of quality of life issues covering a wide geographical region: North America, Europe, parts of Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. Spread over more than 25 chapters, it includes the latest findings from these regions to provide a multidisciplinary account of the major dimensions of quality of life, and therefore has a vast scope. The volume is divided into four thematic parts: theoretical dimension; Demographic dimension; socio-cultural and economic dimensions; and urban and environment related dimensions. Extensive maps, diagrams and tables accompany the discussions and facilitate understanding. This is an indispensable reference and serves the interest of students and scholars of human geography, economics, demography, sociology, anthropology, social work, and philosophy. It is particularly useful for those engaged in further research on quality of life issues.


Slum Health

Slum Health

Author: Jason Corburn

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0520962796

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Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. Slum Health exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy; reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents; and suggests how slum dwellers, scientists, and social movements can come together to make slum life safer, more just, and healthier. Editors Jason Corburn and Lee Riley argue that valuing both new biologic and “street” science—professional and lay knowledge—is crucial for improving the well-being of the millions of urban poor living in slums.


Handbook of Global Urban Health

Handbook of Global Urban Health

Author: Igor Vojnovic

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 1096

ISBN-13: 1315465434

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Through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions across the globe, this collection examines advanced and cutting-edge theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the health of urban populations. Despite the growing interest in global urban health, there are limited resources available that provide an extensive and advanced exploration into the health of urban populations in a transnational context. This volume offers a high-quality and comprehensive examination of global urban health issues by leading urban health scholars from around the world. The book brings together a multi-disciplinary perspective on urban health, with chapter contributions emphasizing disciplines in the social sciences, construction sciences and medical sciences. The co-editors of the collection come from a number of different disciplinary backgrounds that have been at the forefront of urban health research, including public health, epidemiology, geography, city planning and urban design. The book is intended to be a reference in global urban health for research libraries and faculty collections. It will also be appropriate as a text for university class adoption in upper-division under-graduate courses and above. The proposed volume is extensive and offers enough breadth and depth to enable it to be used for courses emphasizing a U.S., or wider Western perspective, as well as courses on urban health emphasizing a global context.


India's Reluctant Urbanization

India's Reluctant Urbanization

Author: P. Tiwari

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-25

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1137339756

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Through a close examination of India's policies, economic system, social systems and politics, this study explores the numerous perspectives and debates on India's urbanization. The authors link contemporary urban issues with emerging challenges associated with policies and city management.


Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors

Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors

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Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13:

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4th-7th eds. contain a special chapter on The role and function of the thesaurus in education, by Frederick Goodman.


Routledge Handbook of Environmental Security

Routledge Handbook of Environmental Security

Author: Richard A. Matthew

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-21

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1351607537

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The Routledge Handbook on Environmental Security provides a comprehensive, accessible, and sophisticated overview of the field of environmental security. The volume outlines the defining theories, major policy and programming interventions, and applied research surrounding the relationship between the natural environment and human and national security. Through the use of large-scale research and ground-level case analyses from across the globe, it details how environmental factors affect human security and contribute to the onset and continuation of violent conflict. It also examines the effects of violent conflict on the social and natural environment and the importance of environmental factors in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Organized around the conflict cycle, the handbook is split into four thematic sections: • Section I: Environmental factors contributing to conflict; • Section II: The environment during conflict; • Section III: The role of the environment in post-conflict peacebuilding; and • Section IV: Cross-cutting themes and critical perspectives. This handbook will be essential reading for students of environmental studies, human security, global governance, development studies, and international relations in general.


The Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals

Author: Fantu Cheru

Publisher: Zed Books

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9781842777350

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How can the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) be made a reality by 2015? This is an up-to-date overview of the funding proposals and mechanisms now under discussion. The contributors have contributed their analyses as part of the Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy--an inter-governmental initiative to develop new approaches to global problem-solving. Key resource flows examined include ODA, foreign direct investment, remittances by migrants, commodity export prices, and new ideas to secure sustainable debt relief, including debt cancellation, revaluation of IMF gold reserves, debt arbitration, and other proposals.