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Slums are home to a large fraction of urban residents in cities of developing nations, but little attempt has been made to go beyond a simple slum/non-slum dichotomy, nor to identify slums more quantitatively than through local reputation. We use census data from Accra, Ghana, to create an index that applies the UN-Habitat criteria for a place to be a slum. We use this index to identify neighborhoods on a continuum of slum characteristics and on that basis are able to locate the worst slums in Accra. These do include the areas with a local reputation for being slums, lending qualitative validation to the index. We show that slums also have footprints that can be identified from data classified from satellite imagery. However, variability among slums in Accra is also associated with some variability in the land cover characteristics of slums. 相似文献
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Julia Meschkank 《GeoJournal》2011,76(1):47-62
The paper seeks to contribute to the recent slum tourism-debate. On the basis of an empirical field study conducted in Mumbai
in 2009, this article investigates how Indian slums are observed by different actors within the communication context of this
(emerging) form of tourism. Taking into consideration that slums are defined in public discourse nearly exclusively by poverty
and sordidness, it is interesting to examine how the tour agency’s objective of correcting the negative connotations of poverty
is achieved. Accordingly, the study aims, by means of a second order observation, to observe how the tourists and the tour
agency simultaneously perceive and charge poverty. Following the epistemological premise that reality is an observer-dependent
construction, it seeks to outline which different images or realities of the investigated slum, Dharavi, are created by the
different observations. The findings will then facilitate a discussion of the extent to which poverty can be defined as the
dominant mode of observation of the slum tourism context as a whole. 相似文献
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In many megacities of the global south, the combination of rapid population growth and high pressure on space for housing,
results in urban growth taking place in areas particularly prone to natural hazards. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is
no exception to this rule. Many marginal settlements or slums are located on low-lying land at high risk of flooding. This
paper analyzes the vulnerability of slum dwellers in Dhaka and highlights the major factors behind their sensitivity to floods
and their ability to adapt to the related changes. The empirical findings presented are based on a questionnaire survey covering
625 households in five slum areas of Dhaka. Our data suggests that social capital plays an important role with regard to the
ability of slum dwellers to find ways to live with the floods. Regardless of how strongly people are affected, mutual help
and support are dominant features in times of crises. While poorly educated and resourced slum dwellers are highly vulnerable
to external shocks, they still show a surprising capacity to cope with natural calamities. 相似文献
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Fiona Paumgarten 《GeoJournal》2005,64(3):189-197
Poor, rural communities are vulnerable to adversity. To secure their livelihoods, people adopt multiple livelihood strategies,
including using non-timber forest products (NTFPs). NTFPs have been identified as important to rural livelihoods, as an alternative
land-use option as well as in fulfilling an important safety-net function although empirical evidence on the latter’s strength
is limited. Whilst NTFPs may contribute towards alleviating poverty, this safety-net function needs more critical and quantitative
investigation. This includes the establishment of an applicable definition so this function can be communicated to policy
makers and taken into account in national poverty alleviation strategies and, in attempts to promote resource-conserving behaviour
by highlighting the value of natural resources (including NTFPs) compared to alternative land-use options. Poverty in rural
households is complex and households are vulnerable to a range of shocks. During adversity households can turn to a range
of possible safety-nets. What determines the use of NTFPs as a safety-net, how this safety-net function manifests and the
strength of this function is poorly understood and there is need for further investigation. 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2015
This paper examines the relationship between spectacle and worlding. Using Dharavi as the site (cite) of analysis, the paper considers how slum tours, art and television documentaries produce particular narratives and imaginaries of the slum. We move beyond the discussions of voyeurism and the aestheticisation of poverty and suggest that the knowledge of the slum is entangled with the motives, preconceptions and experiences of multiple actors, giving the slum a relation with the “world” that holds opportunities to disrupt hegemonic views of urbanism, while centering its own position as a locus of knowledge on urban poverty. The paper suggests that analysing the spectacle of the slum through the lens of worlding offers ways to think critically of how urban space is reordered and urban knowledge is produced and circulated. 相似文献
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This study investigates how physical urban environments affect academic performance of urban public elementary schools in the Philippines by analysing the physical environment of school facilities and slum areas. Global, local, and semi-parametric regression analyses indicate that there is disproportionate provision of resources among the government schools and that lower academic performance is associated with the provision of fewer clinics rather than the proximity to poverty hotspots. Semiparametric, geographically weighted regression modelling outperformed global and local modelling, and estimated up to 30 % of the variation in math scores where the semi-parametric regression model is based on each school’s number of teachers and rooms, building conditions, availability of health clinics, and the location of slum areas near the school. On the basis of the research findings, it is concluded that the current state of school buildings is adequate and is a lower priority than the provision of health care support and smaller pupil–teacher ratios. Hence, government programs that aim to enhance the academic performance of children from the deprived physical urban environments should prioritize the provision of health clinics as well as maintaining few large schools with small pupil–teacher ratios. 相似文献
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Yuting Liu 《Geoforum》2006,37(4):610-626
Since the transition of the economic system in the early 1990s, urban poverty has become a prominent social problem and attracted attention among Chinese officials and academics. However, there have been few studies on the spatiality of urban poverty. The purpose of this paper is to examine the spatial pattern of urban poverty in China and the mechanism of spatial concentration. Urban poverty has begun to concentrate in specific locations, mainly in three types of poverty neighbourhoods: inner-city dilapidated residence, degraded workers’ villages and rural migrants’ enclaves. We argue that the emergence of concentrated poverty is rooted in the state-led urban development and the socialist housing provision system. Based on fieldwork in typical poverty neighbourhoods in the city of Nanjing, the concentration of poverty is examined, and its creation mechanism is analysed. Further discussion indicates that poverty concentration in particular neighbourhoods is different from slums or ghettoes in advanced western economies. 相似文献
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The study examines the relationship between poverty and forest cover degradation in rural areas of Pakistan. The area selected for the study District Upper Dir is a rural and relatively backward region located in northwestern Pakistan, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The study area is undergoing severe deforestation and natural disasters in the recent past. The study consists of two stages, in first stage the traditional Geographical information system image was used to analyze the spatial–temporal situation of the surroundings. In the second stage, well-designed questionnaire was used to collect the primary information from 420 randomly selected households of research areas. A multidimensional poverty index has been used to measure the poverty profile of the population. It has been found that 55% households were below the poverty line. Almost, 95% households are using wood for cooking purposes. High dependence on natural resources causes forest cover degradation while burning off too much wood causes CO2 emission and leads to environmental degradation. A major portion of population is living on steeply sloped areas with certain risks. It is found that frequency of flash flood is 53% and agricultural land (54%) is at high risk and often flows with flash floods. It is concluded that there is strong correlation between multidimensional poverty and forest cover degradation which leads to climate and environmental risks.
相似文献9.
Poverty tourism: theoretical reflections and empirical findings regarding an extraordinary form of tourism 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Manfred Rolfes 《GeoJournal》2010,75(5):421-442
During the mid-1990s, a new form of tourism was established in metropolises of several developing countries or emerging nations. This type of tourism consists in visits to the most disadvantaged parts of the respective city. Poverty tours or slum tours
are offered on a relatively large scale in the South African cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil,
as well as in Indian metropolises, to name some important examples. The target group of these tours consists primarily of
international tourists. It is estimated that 40,000 such tourists visit favelas in Rio de Janeiro each year, around 300,000
the townships in Cape Town. This contribution refers to and comments on these developments and insights regarding poverty
tourism or slumming, based on empirical research and experiences in South Africa, Brazil, and India. It will be shed light
on the phenomenon from an observational-theoretical perspective. It is aimed to open a discussion on the ways poverty tours
or slumming observes and simultaneously programmatically charges poverty. And, it will be considered in which way poverty
tourism is observed. 相似文献
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R. A. Olu Sule Prof. Dr. 《GeoJournal》1990,22(1):81-91
Conclusion The sporadic application of ‘slum clearance’ programmes served only to exacerbate the already intransigent problem of urban
housing shortage, as the example of Lagos has demonstrated. The continued application of Western assumptions in urban development
(whereas they have since been modified in those countries) has inhibited a reassessment of issues in the Nigerian context.
Some of the issues at stake have been considered in this paper. Conventional Western concepts have not only proved inappropriate
to the realities of rapid urban growth and limited resources in Nigeria and most of tropical Africa, but have intensified
the problems still further. In the context of Maroko slum clearance exercise as contained in this paper, they must be seen
as an unsuccessful attempt to control rather than resolve the housing problems of the urban poor.
I terms of planning five procedural steps are necessary to be followed to accomplish a desirable urban renewal exercise for
the community. They are (1) to acquire land in accordance with the plan, consisting of purchase of land and the structures
on it. (2) Relocation of residents from the acquired buildings into satisfactory quarters. The relocation exercise must be
made not only mandatory on the government (local or state) undertaking renewal but made a legal requirement. (3) Site clearance
— the razing of the structures on the land may be carried out only after the quality of such structures have been determined.
This exercise also assumes that a process of data collection and analysis have been accomplished (social and physical). (4)
Site improvements and supporting facilities and services are undertaken by the agency. Site improvements include streets,
sewers, lightiing etc. Others may include parks, play ground, schools etc. (5) Land may be built upon by agency or sold to
original owners if compensations have been paid. They may also be given back to owners with loans to rebuild either through
self-help or cooperative venture. Amortization and interest on such loans should be made generous for the poor.
Since demolition of housing must precede new construction in the project area, the existing stock of housing is decreased,
forcing the displacees to seek shelter in the remaining housing in the city or erect squatter housing. This is especially
likely at the low-quality end of the housing market, since the greatest reduction in the housing stock occurs there. The condition
may remain depending on government’s degree of responsiveness. Perhaps the only way to avoid the problem of a reduced housing
stock in any urban renewal project, thus curbing the incidence of the spiral process of slums among the poor, as the Maroko
example has demonstrated in Lagos, is by building new dwelling units for relocatees before demolishing their present homes.
Such policy would merge with general attempts to relocate the poor in suburbs, seeking a reduction in the concentrations of
poverty in central cities of Nigeria. 相似文献
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Raymond Asare Tutu 《GeoJournal》2013,78(4):709-725
A number of young people from the north of Ghana migrate to live in the slums of the city of Accra, the administrative capital. These slums, characterized by poor quality housing, and inadequate sanitary facilities, make the young migrants vulnerable to the effects of economic, social, political and environmental insecurities and stressors. One of such slums is Old Fadama, which is located in the heart of the city. The main objective of this paper is to explain how resilient a sample of young migrants are to the stressors encountered at the slum through a self-rated level of resilience. Drawing on resilience thinking, the Youth Resilience Framework and Social Resilience perspectives are discussed and variables for analysis are considered from their synthesis. A survey questionnaire instrument is used to collect data from 104 young migrant residents in the slum. The methods of analysis include: analyses of variance, Chi-square test, and ordinal regression. From the multivariate analyses (that is, the ordinal regression analyses), it is suggested that significant predictors of resilience among the sampled young migrants in Old Fadama include type of employment, social capital, number of stressors experienced, and ability to afford medicine. Specific social capital constructs such as having a boy or girlfriend and strong leadership are predictors of resilience among these young migrants in the slum. 相似文献
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This study investigated the association of flood/stagnant water (FSW) with various health outcomes among respondents living in urban slums of Dhaka and adjacent rural areas. We also assessed the differences of individual-, household- and area-level characteristics between the FSW-affected and non-affected areas. Bangladesh as a whole and slums in the megacity of Dhaka in particular are severely affected by the FSW. Data were collected from 3,207 subjects (aged 10+ years) through baseline surveys conducted in March 2008 and 2009. Twelve big slums in Dhaka and three adjacent villages were selected as study areas. Face-to-face interviews using a multidimensional pre-tested questionnaire were conducted by the trained university graduates. We performed various types of analyses ranging from the simple frequency analysis to the multivariable-adjusted logistic regression modelling. Our empirical findings suggest that slums were more affected by the FSW as compared to the rural areas. People living in the FSW-affected areas were more vulnerable in terms of individual-, household- and area-level characteristics than non-affected people. Age was also significantly associated with various health outcomes. According to multivariable analyses controlled for various factors, the FSW-affected people reported significantly higher likelihoods of health symptoms (namely fever, cold/cough, weakness), communicable diseases (namely diarrhoea and gastric disease) and poor mental well-being as compared to the non-affected people. Only the burden of non-communicable diseases was lower in the FSW-affected areas than the non-affected areas. Our findings lead us to conclude that the FSW-affected area is an independent risk factor for various physical and mental health problems. Urban slums are more affected than rural areas by the FSW. Therefore, we underscore the necessities of well-designed and comprehensive public health interventions focusing on individual, community and higher levels of interventions to reduce the FSW-related health and other consequences among the people living in the FSW-affected areas and urban slums in the rapidly growing city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. 相似文献
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Mariama Awumbila 《GeoJournal》2006,67(2):149-161
Poverty trends in Ghana show a decline over the last two decades. However, the period also shows evidence of the intensification
of vulnerability and exclusion among some groups, including women. Among several variables accounting for women’s vulnerability
to poverty are gender inequalities, which it is argued, undermines development and the prospects for improving standards of
living. Therefore it has been suggested that policies, which aim at reducing poverty and promoting sustainable development
must integrate gender equality, equity and women’s empowerment in its goals. Despite these, the interconnections between a
reduction in gender inequality and a reduction in poverty are complex. The paper explores the gender dimensions of poverty
in Ghana, and how gender inequalities are manifested and implicated in the reproduction of poverty. It also assesses the extent
to which these have been taken into account in poverty reduction strategies and policies to enhance the situation of women.
It concludes that if strategies to engender poverty reduction programmes are to be sustainable it is important to recognize
unequal gender relations and the structures of power that women confront at all levels in Ghana and how these increase women’s
vulnerability to poverty. 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2013
Processing of environmental products by rural households in developing countries is often considered a way to lift poor natural resource-dependent households out of poverty by increasing the returns to labour of their harvesting activities. Still, the bulk of environmental products in developing countries is commercialised unprocessed. This paper examines the factors enabling and constraining the processing of shea nuts into shea butter in Burkina Faso. Our analysis is based on socio-economic survey data collected from 536 households in the Zoundwéogo and Cascades provinces of Burkina Faso, as well as qualitative interview data collected from 74 shea butter producers in the province of Sissili. The factors affecting the selection of shea butter production as a livelihood activity as well as the economic success of this activity are analysed using a Heckman selection model. Moreover, we study the effect of locality of residence, defined as place of residence along the rural–urban continuum, on shea butter processing and income. We demonstrate that, among members of a shea butter producer Union, women living in urban areas produce significantly larger quantities of shea butter for sale to the Union and earn superior revenues from these sales than their rural counterparts. We relate these urban–rural discrepancies to the physical and socio-economic conditions that characterise life in different localities and propose policy recommendations based on our findings. 相似文献
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While hotspots of alcohol-related incidents have been associated with alcohol outlet density, few studies have considered other environmental factors. We aimed to characterise the environment of hotspots outside of outlet density areas in Amsterdam. Using geographical information systems, we identified hotspots of alcohol-related health incidents outside of outlet density areas based on the registry of alcohol related ambulance attendances. While quantitative data and methods were used to analyse victim profiles (including age, sex and home address) and temporal profiles (time of incident), we combined quantitative and qualitative information to develop environmental profiles of these hotspots. We identified 11 hotspots with 242 incidents outside outlet density areas. Results indicate substantial differences between incidents in these hotspots and incidents in high outlet density areas. Victims in these hotspots are older, more often male and live closer to the incident location compared to victims in high outlet density hotspots. Incidents are less likely to take place during the night and at weekends. In-depth analysis of four hotspots showed different combinations of contributing environmental factors, including (a) public parks bordering deprived neighbourhoods, (b) dance event facilities close to a traffic black spot, and (c) residential services for disadvantaged groups near ‘hang-outs’. The study shows that hotspots of alcohol-related incidents can arise outside outlet density areas at locations where several other environmental factors cluster, particularly in more deprived areas. Such hotspots can be addressed in urban planning and urban design. 相似文献
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Bolivia is a country with high levels of poverty and inequality among its peoples and regions. For the nation and its urban
and rural areas, trends in the social and spatial distribution of poverty (and extreme poverty) are identified from 1976 to
2003 using UBN data with minor support where appropriate from poverty lines. The main survey between 1992 and 2001 uses composite
and selected UBN to track detailed poverty change for the country’s nine departments, its ten largest cities and a selection
of other smaller urban and rural municipalities. Because of rising background increases in population in the various surveyed
administrative units, many instances of relative reductions in poverty are accompanied by rising absolute increases. Marked
spatial variations in poverty and development in the country over the last several decades are identified as the main driver
for the country’s quickening pace of rural–urban migration. As a result, the paper concludes by assessing two different but
closely related views. One investigation tests the notion that because more poor people have been living in Bolivia’s cities
than in its rural areas since the mid to late 1990s, rapid rural–urban migration has simply shifted the locus of poverty from
the countryside to the cities in a process called, the ‘urbanisation of poverty.’ A second, more challenging, investigation
assesses the view that the flow of poor rural people to the better serviced urban areas of Bolivia has actually acted to alleviate
national poverty levels. 相似文献
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Alice Atieno Oluoko-Odingo 《GeoJournal》2009,74(4):311-331
Poverty and food security are twin concerns of Kenya in a manner similar to many affected developing countries. It is characterized
by the inability of the affected households in the country to acquire and retain sustainable livelihoods. The picture in Kenya
is bound to be complicated by the projected changes in climate, as well as by population increase and environmental degradation,
all which will put pressure on the natural resource base and militate against the achievement of sustainable development.
The poverty picture in Kenya has hardly changed since independence over four decades ago despite the enormous resources and
efforts which have been directed at tackling it. The current national poverty level remains high at well over 70% in some
pockets which remain particularly vulnerable. Following the recent post-election violence, there is now a fear that the situation
could degenerate into famine conditions and further hopelessness for a sizeable proportion of the rural population. Government
efforts to eradicate poverty and food insecurity spelled out in a thirty year development plan are unlikely to succeed unless
underlying causes of inequality are properly addressed. The paper contains suggestions for new approaches to addressing the
twin problems. 相似文献
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GeoJournal - A key contributor to the growing levels of morbidity, mortality and poverty in slum settlements has been attributed to lack of basic sanitation services. To curb this menace, various... 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2016
Energy poverty – or the condition of households that cannot adequately heat their homes – is produced at the confluence of multi-scalar processes, from regional labor market restructuring, to urban disinvestment, to geopolitical and geoeconomic struggles over extraction. Critical theorization of the concept is in its nascent phase and the notion itself has received relatively little attention in the United States. Our paper aims to address these lacunae by mobilizing an urban political ecology framework to consider a community-based campaign that targeted residential energy conservation funds in Buffalo, New York. We analyze how the community campaign drew upon the “network crisis” of the energy-poor home to frame critical justice demands that foregrounded energy poverty as the product of uneven socionatural development. Through spatial claims and scalar strategies, the campaign highlighted the contribution of neoliberal conservation programs to deepening patterns of uneven development, and demanded redress of disinvestment in urban housing stock through funding of weatherization for low-income households. We argue that contests over urban energy metabolism offer a fruitful area to explore the possibilities of transforming uneven development from below. 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2017
Mumbai’s Dharavi slum occupies a plot half the size of Central Park. It is home to one million people, with almost half of residents living in spaces under 10 m2, making it over six times as dense as daytime Manhattan. Using ethnographic fieldwork and online analysis, this article examines slum tourism and the perceptions and experiences of western visitors. Local tour operators emphasize the productivity of the slum, with its annual turnover of $665 million generated from its hutment industries. Its poor sanitation, lack of clean water, squalid conditions and overcrowding are ignored and replaced by a vision of resourcefulness, hard work and diligence. This presentation of the slum as a hive of industry is so successful that visitors overlook, or even deny, its obvious poverty. Dharavi is instead perceived as a manufacturing hub and retail experience; and in some cases even romanticized as a model of contentment and neighbourliness, with western visitors transformed by ‘life-changing’, ‘eye-opening’ and ‘mind-blowing’ experiences. This article concludes that the potential of slum tours as a form of international development is limited, as they enable wealthy middle-class westerners to feel ‘inspired’, ‘uplifted’ and ‘enriched’, but with little understanding of the need for change. 相似文献