Since the First Malaysia Plan (1966–1970), there is an emergence development of low-cost housing construction in Malaysia that intentionally acts as an approach to resettle of squatters or illegal residential. In the current economic situation, there is a growing demand from residents for a better and safer housing. Evidence shows that safety is a major problem in low cost housing and it is app...

Milan is an increasingly safe city. Despite this, the insecurity perceived by citizens growing. Particularly in social housing districts, squatting considered institutions, public opinion, but also most regular residents, as one of principle causes urban insecurity. Based on ethnographic research conducted between 2015 and 2017, this article proposes anthropological analysis policies, norms, pr...

Abstract Micro‐organisms have long been implicated in the construction of stromatolites. Yet, establishing a microbial role modern stromatolite growth via molecular analysis is not always straightforward because DNA stromatolites can multiple origins. For example, genomic material could represent microbes responsible for (i.e., “builders”), that inhabited structure after it was built “tenants”)...

In the 1980s, the Thai government tried to legalize squatters living in certain geographical areas by issuing special titles that allowed for cultivation but restricted the sale and rental of the land. Using data from 2,874 farming households collected in 1997 and a differences-in-differences empirical strategy, we compare the differential rental rates between secured and unsecured plots in ref...