Search for dissertations about: "urban poverty"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 63 swedish dissertations containing the words urban poverty.

  2. 16. Urban types in rapidly urbanising cities

    Author : John Modestus Lupala; KTH; []
    Keywords : urban types; hourse forms; densily; plot characteristics; spaces and space use; spatial quality; formal and informal settlement; dar es salaam;

    Abstract : One of the challenges confronting cities innon-industrialised countries today is the fact that cities aregrowing at unprecedented rates, sizes and densities. Growthtrends in these cities are largely unregulated. READ MORE

  4. 17. From Public Pipes to Private Hands : Water Access and Distribution in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Author : Marianne Kjellén; Gunilla Andrae; Matthias Finger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; leakage; poverty; privatization; public utility regulation; spaghettization; urban water management; water vending; Human geography; economic geography; Kulturgeografi; ekonomisk geografi;

    Abstract : In cities around the world, public water systems have increasingly come to be operated by private companies. Along with an internationally funded investment program to refurbish the dilapidated water infrastructure, private operations were tested also in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. READ MORE

  5. 18. Urban-Based Agriculture and Poultry Production : The Case of Kisumu and Thika in Kenya

    Author : Samuel Omondi; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Urban agriculture; urban-based rural agriculture; poultry production; poultry value chain; food security; Kenya;

    Abstract : Kenya’s population is rapidly growing and urbanising. Poverty and problems of food insecurity are equally urbanising at an unprecedented rate. Formal employment has not kept pace with the job demand of the growing population. READ MORE

  6. 19. Essays on Labor Supply and Poverty: A microeconometric application

    Author : Nizamul Islam; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor Supply; State Dependence; Unobserved Heterogeneity; Poverty persistency;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers in applied micro econometrics. The first paper evaluates the discrete choice labor supply Model by Monte Carlo experiment. The 2nd paper investigates the relationships between participation decisions and both the fertility decision and women's non-labor income. READ MORE

  7. 20. Postcolonial Nature Conservation and Collaboration in Urban Protected Areas : Everyday relations at Macassar Dunes/Wolfgat reserves, Cape Town, South Africa

    Author : Marnie Graham; Henrik Ernstson; Thomas Elmqvist; Sandie Suchet-Pearson; Richie Howitt; Michael Adams; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; collaborative conservation; co-management; postcolonial identities; urban nature; ways of knowing nature; Southern cities; Indigenous methodology; Macassar Dunes Wolfgat reserves; Cape Town; South Africa; politics of nature conservation; naturresurshushållning; Natural Resources Management;

    Abstract : Protected areas and nature conservation are profoundly shaped by Western ideas, and are embedded within powerful discourses and colonising practices. This thesis examines how colonialism and apartheid shape contemporary practices of nature conservation in Cape Town in South Africa - its institutions, geographies and peoples. READ MORE