Third World Cities: Sustainable Urban Development II—Population, Labour and Poverty

Drakakis‐Smith, David

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“…Thus, it has become quite common to encounter expressions such as "planning sustainable cities", "sustainable urbanisation", "sustainable land use planning", "sustainable urban development" among others (Berke and Conroy, 2000;Drakakis-Smith, 1995, 1996, 1997Kruger, 2014;Rapoport, 2014;UN-Habitat, 2009. It may be argued that the popularity of the concept emanates from the high level political platform it enjoyed, its core proposition for integrating economic and social development with environmental issues as well as its future-centredness regarding development discourse (De Wit and Verheye, 2003).…”

Section: Conceptualising Sustainable Development In Urban Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

A review of spatial planning in Ghana's socio-economic development trajectory: A sustainable development perspective

2015

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Section: Conceptualising Sustainable Development In Urban Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

A review of spatial planning in Ghana's socio-economic development trajectory: A sustainable development perspective

2015

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“…One specific concern relates to growing populations outstripping provision of urban services and infrastructure (Drakakis-Smith, 1996). Urban exploitation of key Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. natural resources has been flagged as a significant problem for African cities in the future (Main, 1995), and such concern has prompted interest in the dynamics of population-driven environmental change in and around cities.…”

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Sustainability under threat? The dynamics of environmental change and food production in peri‐urban Kano, northern Nigeria

Maconachie

Binns

2006

Land Degrad Dev

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In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, peri-urban livelihood strategies have increasingly become recognized as important survival mechanisms for a wide range of actors in the context of rapid urban population growth. Based on field research, which illuminates local actors' knowledge and perceptions of land degradation, this paper identifies some of the key forces that are currently shaping the process of peri-urban change. The paper seeks to examine the social, economic and cultural contexts of land degradation in peri-urban areas, with specific reference to recent developments in and around the bourgeoning city of Kano in northern Nigeria. Particular issues of concern include the competition for key resources and its impact on the environment, together with related implications for levels of poverty, livelihoods and peri-urban food security. Since the concept of land degradation is a social construction, with different meanings for different individuals, a more critical evaluation of how the knowledge, understanding and perceptions of local actors drive behaviour and affect land-use decisions at the micro-level is essential if sustainable environmental policies for the future are to be initiated.

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“…by Drakakis [15], [16], [17]). Therefore, and considering the call for universal access to public utilities in the Global Charter-Agenda, the author believes that this should be covered by the Global Charter-Agenda.…”

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“…Therefore, and considering the call for universal access to public utilities in the Global Charter-Agenda, the author believes that this should be covered by the Global Charter-Agenda. The author also believes that elements of the right to work should be introduced into the Global-Charter, since this has been proven to directly affect poverty rates [16]. It is clear that municipal administrations cannot directly create labor markets, and it is not their responsibility, but they can act indirectly through policies and initiatives.…”

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Measuring the Standardized Definition of “smart city”: A Proposal on Global Metrics to Set the Terms of Reference for Urban “smartness”

Marsal-Llacuna

2015

Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015

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Abstract. Since the end of 2014 a definition on "smart cities" agreed by international standardization bodies exists. ' (H. James Harrington). Therefore, if we want to understand what the smart cities initiative is all about we have to start measuring its brand new definition. After that we'll be able to monitor and control the performance of cities in terms of smartness, and this will lead to the possibility of improvement. In this research we present a set of indicators that specifically serve to measure the newly agreed and acknowledged international definition on smart cities. This set of indicators will be now tested to measure the smartness of the city of Girona, a small-medium sized city in Spain. At the completion of this pilot we'll be able to design an index summarizing the set (or subsets) of indicators, as a future steps of this research. A summarizing index will help to get an overview and to understand the overall performance of a city in terms of smartness. Then, targeted actions should be undertaken according to the results revealed by the specific indicators so that the overall smartness can be improved.

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Third World Cities: Sustainable Urban Development II—Population, Labour and Poverty

Cited by 37 publications

References 50 publications

A review of spatial planning in Ghana's socio-economic development trajectory: A sustainable development perspective

A review of spatial planning in Ghana's socio-economic development trajectory: A sustainable development perspective

Sustainability under threat? The dynamics of environmental change and food production in peri‐urban Kano, northern Nigeria

Measuring the Standardized Definition of “smart city”: A Proposal on Global Metrics to Set the Terms of Reference for Urban “smartness”

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