Impact Initiative - Urban/Rural: Recent submissions
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Sustainable Development through Diversifying Pathways in India
(Economic and Political Weekly, 2019)From groundwater depletion to toxic air pollution, modernising development pathways are linked with grave unsustainability challenges, as they extend the unbridled extraction of “goods” from nature while carelessly dumping ... -
Uncertainty
(Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)Environmental appraisal presents deeper and wider problems than are typically conceded in policy. Strong political pressures for decision justification routinely force the closing down of due deliberation over the real ... -
Frontiers of Urban Control: Lawlessness on the City Edge and Forms of Clientalist Statecraft in Zimbabwe
(Wiley, 2019)This article develops the concept of “urban frontier” to explore conflicts over state regularisation of city edge informal settlements in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare. It conceptualises the presence of “lawless” urban frontiers ... -
Partisan Citizenship and its Discontents: Precarious Possession and Political Agency on Harare City's Expanding Margins
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)On the margins of Zimbabwe’s expanding capital Harare, the ruling ZANU–PF party promotes a view of access to urban land, housing and security as ‘gift’, conditional on demonstrations of party loyalty. This article discusses ... -
Environmental Associated Emotional Distress and the Dangers of Climate Change for Pastoralist Mental Health
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa are among the most vulnerable populations to climate change yet little is known about how environmental change shapes their wellbeing and mental health. This paper presents a formative ... -
A Framework for Targeting Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Interventions in Pastoralist Populations in the Afar Region of Ethiopia
(Elsevier GmbH, 2019)Globally, many populations face structural and environmental barriers to access safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Among these populations are many of the 200 million pastoralists whose livelihood patterns ... -
Emotional Wellbeing as a Proxy Indicator for Water Security Among Pastoralists in Afar, Ethiopia
(WEDC, 2018)Recent thinking proposesa more holistic approach to measuring household water security. In addition to conventional service-level based indicators, assessments should account for broader social, political and culturalstructures ... -
Insights into the Importance of Ecosystem Services to Human Well-being in Reservoir Landscapes
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)Smallholder famers in West Africa use multiple ecosystem services (ES) in their day-to-day lives. The contribution that these services make to human well-being (HWB), and therefore to development outcomes, is not well ... -
Safe and Sustainable Cities: Migration, Security and Wellbeing
(Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), 2019)By 2050 more people of Bangladesh will be living in urban areas than rural areas. Therefore, instead of viewing migrants as source of urban problems, long term planning is required to create sustainable cities for all. ... -
The Need for Bottom-up Assessments of Climate Risks and Adaptation in Climate-sensitive Regions
(Springer Nature Limited, 2019)Studies of climate change at specific intervals of future warming have primarily been addressed through top-down approaches using climate projections and modelled impacts. In contrast, bottom-up approaches focus on the ... -
Mobile Worlds: Choice at the Intersection of Demographic and Environmental Change
(Annual Reviews, 2018)Research on environmental change has often focused on changes in population as a significant driver of unsustainability and environmental degradation. Demographic pessimism and limited engagement with demographic realities ... -
Sugar Industry in the Lower Omo: Exploring Different Scenarios of Privatization
(OTuRN, 2019)The Ethiopian governmenthas pursued over the past decade a strategy of expanding sugar production to meet local demand and to generate foreign revenue. To date this has been mostly state-led, ... -
Violent Conflict Implications of Mega Projects in Nyangatom Woreda, Ethiopia
(OTuRN, 2019)This briefing note explores conflict in the past 10 years in the Nyangatom Woreda of South Omo Zone, South-ern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ region, Ethiopia. The Nyangatom are one of the 16 ethnic groups indig-enous ... -
Flood Retreat Agriculture in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia
(OTuRN, 2019)Flood retreat farming is a technique of farming that relies on the annual flood of rivers to provide irrigation water. It has been practiced in many river basins in Africa, including the Awash, Niger, Nile, and Zambezi. ... -
How the Urban Poor Define and Measure Food Security in Cambodia and Nepal
(SAGE, 2019)Urban food security, or its lack, is attracting growing interest in global policy debates. Glaringly missing in these conversations, however, are the voices of the urban poor. To fill this gap, grassroots community ... -
Integrating Participatory Methods and Remote Sensing to Enhance Understanding of Ecosystem Service Dynamics Across Scales
(MDPI, 2019)The value of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) for informing resource management has long been recognized; however, its incorporation into ecosystem services (ES) assessments remains uncommon. Often “top-down” approaches ... -
Multiple Environmental Shocks Impacting Livelihoods and Food Security in Nyangatom, the Lower Omo, Ethiopia
(OTuRN, 2019-08)This briefing note presents preliminary results from the research project ‘Shifting In/equality Dynamics in Ethiopia: from Research to Application’ (SIDERA), which aims to understand the links between envi-ronmental change, ... -
Narratives of Scarcity: Framing the Global Land Rush
(ScienceDirect, 2018-06-09)Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a result justify actions to harness ... -
Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area
(SAGE Publications, 2012)The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; ... -
Prostitution or Partnership? Wifestyles in Tanzanian Artisanal Gold-mining Settlements
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)Tanzania, along with several other African countries, is experiencing a national mining boom, which has prompted hundreds of thousands of men and women to migrate to mineral-rich locations. At these sites, relationships ...