A5055827746- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Regional resilience and development
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
- Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions
- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Social and Economic Development in India
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
- Smart Cities and Technologies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Institute of Development Studies
2014-2022
Institute of Development Studies
2012-2021
National Institute of Urban Affairs
2021
Malden Public Schools
2021
University of Sussex
2014-2020
UK Research and Innovation
2020
IILM Institute for Higher Education
2010-2011
This paper highlights the major challenges and considerations for addressing COVID-19 in informal settlements. It discusses what is known about vulnerabilities how to support local protective action. There heightened concern urban settlements because of combination population density inadequate access water sanitation, which makes standard advice social distancing washing hands implausible. are further do with lack reliable data social, political economic contexts each setting that will...
COVID-19 is a global challenge that demands researchers, policy makers, and governments address multiple dimensions which go far beyond the implications of this pandemic for health wellbeing. Just as UN Sustainable Development Goals call focus on connections between development sectors, has exposed complex interdependencies underpin economies highlighted fault lines in societal structures perpetuate ethnic, economic, social, gender inequalities. Here, we highlight pandemic's emerging...
The aim of this paper is to analyse the emergence concept 'urban resilience' in literature and assess its potentials limitations as an element policy planning. Using a systematic review covering period 2003–2013 combination techniques derived from narrative analysis, we show that diverse views what urban resilience means how it best used (as goal or conceptual/analytical framework) compete literature. Underlying these are various (and sometimes diverging) interpretations main issues forms...
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases nears 27 million, there is a rush to answer (what next) and act (to solve immediate problems COVID-19). This paper discusses, with specific focus on urban areas in global South, what missing date from this response. That includes an identification things that are too much of, not being done at all, unbalanced. There has been enormous upsurge academic research papers opinions COVID-19. “Technological” “scientific” solutions tend overshadow other...
This article analyzes the determinants of household riot victimization, based on a unique survey collected in Maharashtra, India. We adopt multilevel framework that allows neighborhood and district effects to randomly influence victimization. find economically vulnerable households, households living close unsafe areas, shop owners are more prone suffer from riots. Households report lower levels victimization if they live further police stations, exhibit higher trust, able rely outside help...
• We analyse wellbeing priorities and satisfactions in seven informal settlements three Bangladeshi cities (Dhaka, Chittagong, Bogra) Wellbeing are similar across but satisfaction with achieved outcomes differs by site socio-economic groups People's subjective assessments of how they fare on consistent relevant objective indicators their substantively mediated site-specific governance arrangements for essential services Urban policy makers lack methodologies metrics to support interventions...
Abstract Motivation Urban areas are growing as is urban poverty, yet few countries have developed comprehensive programmes for social assistance in areas. Those that exist, moreover, often extensions or duplicates of rural schemes. protection needs to reflect the distinct characteristics and vulnerabilities poor, especially they usually work informal activities face higher living costs than dwellers. Purpose This article addresses two questions: what current evidence on effective areas? How...
This paper systematically reviews the evidence on what capacities state requires to leverage agriculture for nutrition in fragile contexts, maintaining a focus South Asia (especially India). It uses framework of ought do (in terms pathways), can relation parts enabling environment it is able deliver) and willing (addressing constraints political choices). The results search were sorted into three further themes: capacity intervene systemically intersectorally; engage with participatory...
This article contributes to the growing literature on spatial dynamics of urban violence in developing world. It highlights dialectic between form, and security provision as vernacular nature, shaped by hyperlocal processes actors. And yet, this is dominated state military-centred terminology, continually underpinned state's imposition order constitute city a site for legitimate control. materialises often arbitrary recognition one area 'at margins', not another, group people 'slum dwellers'...
How will security in cities be understood the future? For whom it provided? What are ways by which urban provision governed? And, what impact violence and order have on processes of state-building fragile contexts This article reports a foresight study that addresses these questions. A key finding is there multiple overlapping forms violence, interact important consequences for understanding future cities.
The public health containment measures in response to COVID-19 have precipitated a significant epistemic and ontological shift �bottom-up� �action-oriented� approaches development studies research. �Lockdown� necessitates physical social distancing between research subject researcher, raising legitimate concerns around the extent which �distanced� action-research can be inclusive address citizens� lack of agency. Top-down regimes control urban spaces through lockdown India not stemmed...
Over a 50-year span, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) research has not focused on cities or urbanisation to the extent it might have. We find that there is good reason for now be described as 'new frontier' international development. In particular, violence increasingly defining characteristic urban living in both conflict and non-conflict settings. This important consequences relatively under-researched links between violence, processes state building, wider development goals....