Water security: the “new normality” of informal settlements. Nature-Based Solutions as sustainable mitigation and adaptation strategies

Formalizing the Informal: Understanding the Position of Informal Settlements and Slums in Sustainable Urbanization Policies and Strategies in Bandung, Indonesia

Sustainable urbanization policies and strategies are posited as a major tool by which to achieve the sustainable development of growing towns and cities. A major challenge for sustainable urbanization policies and strategies is how to address the complexity of urbanization, especially the ongoing growth of informal settlements and slums in developing countries. It is acknowledged that those liv...

a fundamental study of "histiriographic metafiction", and "literary genres", as introduced in "new historical philosophy", and tracing them in the works of julian barnes.

abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...

Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas

the effect of explicit teaching of metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies on recall and retention of idioms

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Image-Based Reconstruction of Informal Settlements

The improvement of living conditions in informal settlements (IS) is one of the most complex and pressing challenges facing developing countries. In this paper we report on progress towards the automated generation of geospatial databases of informal settlements from large scale, low cost, digital still-video imagery. We focus on shack extraction as the predominant data requirement. In contrast...