Recent times have seen a significant increase in the amount of readily available SAR data, with many current and historic SAR data holdings now adopting an open distribution policy. As more regular SAR observations are becoming available, the use of a hyper-temporal SAR change detection framework (utilizing a stack of potentially hundreds of SAR images) is now becoming significantly more feasib...

OBJECTIVES A large share of the urban population in developing countries lives in informal settlements or "slums" today. This study investigates the association between slum residence and health among adult Ghanaian women residing in the Accra Metropolitan Area. METHODS Health data collected as part of the Women's Health Study of Accra round II (WHSA-II) was combined with data from the Househ...

this study is a descriptive - survey and objective evaluation analysis of creation causes on informal settlement shadgholi-khan town of qom city. answer questionnaire by 200 protector of household in shadgholi-khan tow, economic, social and physical variables affective creation of informal settlements in the shadgholi-khan its spatial and local effects are investigated. research findings show t...

Following an increase in Roma migration under the European “freedom of movement” laws, Swedish municipalities initiated more than 80 evictions of informal Roma settlements on the grounds of poor sanitation between 2013 and 2016. These evictions echo policies from earlier in the 20th century, when Roma living in Sweden were often marginalized through the denial of access to water and sanitation ...

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