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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2021
    China, Turkey, United States of America, Russia, Mexico

    Paris Agreement of December 2015 was the last official initiative led by the United Nations UN as the driver of climate change mitigation Climate change was hence linked with an increase in the occurrence of natural hazards A variety of initiatives were consequently adopted under different themes such as sustainable cities climatefriendly development and lowcarbon cities However most of the initiatives targeted by global cities with urban areas being the focus in terms of taking action against global warming issues This is due to the structural and environmental features of cities character

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2022
    Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, France

    The empirical investigation of which risk factorpolitical or financialis the optimal driver of country risk in emerging economies in the twentyfirst century has grown into a significant and volatile issue in recent decades This paper investigates the linkages between political risk and financial risk in four Balkan economies ie Greece Albania Bulgaria and Romania from 1984 Q3 to 2018 Q4 using nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag cointegration NARDL and wavelet coherence approaches As a result findings from the links between political risk and financial risk are being used to provide sig

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2019
    Bangladesh, Portugal

    The paper analyses a community development project based in Jhenaidah Bangladesh which evolved through broadening social capital among slum communities and formal institutions in order to bring positive sociospatial changes in the neighborhoods Till date nine disadvantaged communities have formed a network for citywide community development have started to build and manage their own funds built better houses for themselves and through this process have managed to draw attention and support from the local government The positive impacts brought with the project were a result of a continuous

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2021
    Lithuania

    Participation in decisionmaking processes foreshadows enabling citizens communities nongovernmental organizations and other interested parties to influence the formulation of policies and laws affecting them The purpose of this study is not only to review Lithuanian legal documents but also to analyse recent processes in Kaunas city planning Kaunas city is undergoing various urban processes which do not always meet the needs of the community This study presents an analysis of the forms of community involvement in the urban planning processes and survey data on the effectiveness of community

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2018
    France, United States of America, Switzerland

    Currently there exists a disturbing urban problem exemplified by the excessive luxury apartments and glamorous office towers being built in cities around the world in the face of the increasing unaffordability of housing and lowcost work trade or craft space Seeking to address this complex problem this paper proposes a theoretical framework that uniquely addresses both the capitalist economic structure that drives the development process and the Marxistbased urban theory by which the socioeconomic outcomes are currently evaluated This framework takes as its metatheory the approach of Thomas

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2020
    Greece, United States of America, Canada

    Despite the rise to prominence of sustainable planning the state of urgency and the pressure imposed by the extreme competition between metropolitan territories reduce sustainability to a marketoriented doctrine for deregulated urban development The aim of this article is an exploration of the current Athenian urban crisis by centring on sustainable urban development plans territorial planning institutions and urban policies To this end the phenomenon of urban crisis is explained as a derivative of the failure of sustainability reforms By establishing a link between the institutional framew

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2022
    Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, France

    The empirical investigation of which risk factorpolitical or financialis the optimal driver of country risk in emerging economies in the twentyfirst century has grown into a significant and volatile issue in recent decades This paper investigates the linkages between political risk and financial risk in four Balkan economies ie Greece Albania Bulgaria and Romania from 1984 Q3 to 2018 Q4 using nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag cointegration NARDL and wavelet coherence approaches As a result findings from the links between political risk and financial risk are being used to provide sig

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2021
    China, Turkey, United States of America, Russia, Mexico

    Paris Agreement of December 2015 was the last official initiative led by the United Nations UN as the driver of climate change mitigation Climate change was hence linked with an increase in the occurrence of natural hazards A variety of initiatives were consequently adopted under different themes such as sustainable cities climatefriendly development and lowcarbon cities However most of the initiatives targeted by global cities with urban areas being the focus in terms of taking action against global warming issues This is due to the structural and environmental features of cities character

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2022
    Egypt, United States of America, Norway

    A revolutionary book by De Soto to formalize land tenure by changing dead capital to life capital has become the trademark in Egypt of issuing a temporary reconciliation law of 2019 and its amendment to approve a legal certificate to the violators against a certain fee The question is does this law legalize informal housing Is it enough to introduce a legal certificate to secure land tenure for the violators How would this law apply on the ground Depending on the deductive methodology this paper traces sociotechnical transitions concerning legalizing the status quo of buildingland tenure se

  10. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    January, 2023
    Libya, France, United States of America, Lebanon, Greece

    North African cities have been undergoing major transformation over the past two decades following protracted instability civic uprising and conflicts changing their perception from havens to territories of displacements with social psychological and physical problems Historic public spaces in those cities in particular form a critical part of urban environments as they have the identity livelihoods and crosscommunity engagement in a healthy and fulfilling urban fabric and culture Whilst there have been several studies on the characteristics of open spaces in urban environments there is ver

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