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More than half of the human population will be living in urban areas in 2008, of which 81 percent will be in poor areas of towns and cities of the developing world. Governments of most African cities are unable to provide the urgently needed sanitation facilities amongst other s…

In spring 1994, a survey covering a total of 300 households was carried out to study the effect of rural-to-urban migration on nutritional status of recent migrants in Islamshahr, a peri-urban area of Tehran, Iran. The sample consisted of 97 long term migrant, 96 short term migr…

The issue of development-induced displacement (DID) has become one of the glaring social problems of recent times. This study investigated the coping and adaptive strategies of displaced individuals and households as a result of a real estate development project in Yeka Tefo, a …