Urban Slums: Reason for Concern? The definition of a slum varies from one form to another depending on the background or country from which an individual comes from. Someone from a rich country may define slums as old run-down buildings‚ whereas someone from a poor country will define slums as un-serviced haphazard constructions. The universal definition of a slum as found in the dictionary is said to be a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and filth. Slums are seen
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Climate Change in Uganda: Understanding the implications and appraising the response Scoping Mission for DFID Uganda July 2008 S 0 INTERNATIONAL LTS International LTS International has been supporting sustainable development worldwide for 35 years. We offer dynamic‚ multi-disciplinary teams of experienced professionals to meet the bespoke requirements of the assignment‚ be it poverty reduction‚ commercial viability‚ improved equity and governance or any other facet of sustainable resource
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10 URBAN ENVIRONMENT Suneel Pandey‚ Shaleen Singhal‚ Pragya Jaswal‚ and Manraj Guliani Great cities are planned and grow without any regard for the fact that they are parasites on the countryside‚ which must somehow supply food‚ water‚ air‚ and degrade huge quantities of wastes. —Eugene Odum Six to seven million people are added annually to urban India. At the beginning of this millennium‚ 285 million Indians lived in its nearly 4400 towns and cities (Census 2001)
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URBAN POVERTY Sociology 300 April 27‚ 2013 URBAN POVERTY This paper will describe strategies for dealing with massive urban poverty‚ joblessness and poor housing. I will also address how to make cities productivity increase and in particular how to do so in a way that creates more jobs‚ increase incomes and business opportunities. Low-income families and communities will benefit the most from these changes and hopefully improve their quality of life. The reduction of Urban Poverty requires
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1 CLIMATE CHANGE I have decided to talk about climate change for my first topic – as the weather at the moment is changing. There has been a hurricane overseas and we are getting some of it so the winds are very strong they say it can be up to 70mph some airports have been shut. Windy rainy days but still very humid. Sunny and windy days but cold. Climate measures the average pattern of variation in temperature‚ humidity‚ atmospheric pressure‚ wind‚ precipitation. Climate is different from weather
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Urban Spaces Living within a unicultural community is quite the norm for many reasons. It serves a plethora of benefits to be surrounded by individuals who share the same lifestyle as you. The corner grocer may stock ethnic foods particular to your own culture that could not be found in major chain stores. Your neighbors may speak your native tongue if you’re not from that particular part of the world thus eliminating language barriers. All these small conveniences associated with living in unicultural
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Urban Problems This year has been an exciting and always educational experience in Social Problems. Although I did not know at first what I was fully getting into I did know the course description drew me in. Cover a variety of topics in such a small amount of time I feel that by presenting we really get a deeper understanding for our area of expertise. However when it comes to group work I am a very busy person and I personally found it hard to incorporate group time into me time. It is for that
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Scheduled Areas and Tribal Areas : Scheduled Tribes live in contiguous areas unlike other communities. It is‚ therefore‚ much simpler to have an area-approach for development activities and also regulatory provisions to protect their interests. In order to protect the interests of Scheduled Tribes with regard to land alienation and other social factors‚ provisions of ‘‘Fifth Schedule" and ‘‘Sixth Schedule"have been enshrined in the Constitution. The Fifth Schedule under Article 244(1) of Constitution
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Climate change is one of the biggest problems facing the world today. Climate change refers to the changes of the climate in which bad phenomena that caused directly or indirectly by human activities. Global warming is one of the main factors that contribute to the climate change. Global warming occurs when heat trapped in the earth’s atmosphere that caused by excess greenhouse gases such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2)‚ Methane (CH4) and Nitrous Oxide (N2O). All of these gases form a layer in the atmosphere
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Urban morphology is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation. The study seeks to understand the spatial structure and character of a metropolitan area‚ city‚ town or village by examining the patterns of its component parts and the process of its development. This can involve the analysis of physical structures at different scales as well as patterns of movement‚ land use‚ ownership or control and occupation. Typically‚ analysis of physical form
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