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Assessing vulnerability to climate variability and change: participatory assessment approach and Kenyan case study
van de Sand, Isabel - 2012
resource for the city of Nairobi. Participatory approaches have been applied in the development community for years through the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020618
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Family migration: a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama - 2008
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268526
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Urbane Landwirtschaft in Nairobi – Bericht zum Geländeseminar 2021
Kulke, Elmar; Sonntag, Christian; Suwala, Lech; Baur, Nina - 2022
Fokus von gesellschaftlichen, politischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskursen. Auch in Kenia und in Nairobi hat die Urbane ….B. traditionelle Märkte und moderner Lebensmitteleinzelhandel) bzw. verwandten Aktivitäten (z.B. Community Gardens) in Nairobi. … agriculture is increasingly becoming the focus of social, political and scientific discourse. Also in Kenya and Nairobi, urban …
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Political islam in Kenya
Møller, Bjørn - 2006
In the paper, commissioned by Hussein Solomon and Akeem Fadare for their forthcoming anthology on Political Islam and the State in Africa, the focus placed on the political role of Islam in Kenyan politics. Prevalent fears (e.g. in the United States) of the country becoming a hotbed of Islamist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323487
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Incumbent upgrading in den Slums von Nairobi: Jugendliche gestalten Transformationsprozesse
Eberth, Andreas - In: Räumliche Transformation: Prozesse, Konzepte, …, (pp. 130-139). 2019
Forschungsmethoden das Engagement von Jugendlichen in den Slums von Nairobi als erstarkende Zivilgesellschaft sowie deren Beitrag zu …The paper shows examples for youth led development in the slums of Nairobi by presenting results of a research project …
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Incumbent upgrading in Nairobi's slums: How young people contribute to local spatial transformation
Eberth, Andreas - In: Spatial transformation: Processes, strategies, research …, (pp. 120-128). 2022
This article summarises the results and findings of a study of young people in the slums of Nairobi based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013165133
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Prices and Constant Quality Price Indexes for Multi-Dwelling and Commercial Buildings in Sweden
Berg, Lennart - 2001
The purpose of this paper is to estimate constant quality price trends and analysing factors determining market prices for MDCBs (multi-dwelling and commercial buildings) in Sweden. We use high quality data for housing and municipality attributes and our database consists of almost 8500...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321787
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Determinants of residential space heating expenditures in Great Britain
Meier, Helena; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2008
In Great Britain several policy measures have been implemented in order to increase energy efficiency and to reduce carbon emissions. In the domestic sector, these targets can be achieved by improving space heating efficiency and, hence, decrease heating expenditures. However, before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263511
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Housing, Health and Happiness
Cattaneo, Matias; Galiani, Sebastian; Gertler, Paul; … - 2008
Despite the importance of housing for people’s well-being, there is little evidence on the causal impact of housing and housing improvement programs on health and welfare. In this paper, we help to fill this gap by investigating the impact of a large-scale effort by the Mexican Government to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429280
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The Dynamics of Housing Demand in the Philippines: Income and Lifecycle Effects
Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2001
This paper examines the housing consumption pattern of households in the Philippines given their socioeconomic characteristics and the existing conditions in the land and housing market. Two basic issues are examined: one, how is housing adjustment and expenditure associated with income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429656