In the present paper, we argue that the relative location of peripheral spontaneous settlements is dynamic and changes with the growth of the city. The periphery is a place under constant mutation, always reproducing new extensions of land while the old peripheries are gradually incorporated to the city and occupied by new inhabitants. It focuses on the process of consolidation within the urban...

This paper deals with the study of Holocene geomorphic evolution of rivers around Songshan Mountain in relation to human frequentation in Prehistoric periods. The investigations were performed by means of an integration of GIS data processing; field surveys and particle size analysis. In 8000–3000 aBP; in the Songshan Mountain Region, large-scale river sedimentation occurred. This increased the...

The earliest members of genus Homo were surely bedeviled by blood-feeding arthropods, some of which doubtless carried zoonotic pathogens. However, the phenomenon of vectorborne human epidemic disease began only after humans began building settlements 15,000 years ago. Settlements offered pathogens not only host density but also opportunities for their vertebrate reservoirs and arthropod vectors...

Foreign exchange transactions are subject to a unique type of settlement risk. This risk ultimately stems from the difficulty of coordinating separate settlements in two different currencies. Settlement of foreign exchange transactions through the proposed CLS (“Continuous Linked Settlement”) Bank has been discussed as a potential solution to this problem. This paper describes the CLS proposal ...

extended abstract 1. introduction urbanization is a process which leads to the growth of cities and urban changes due to industrialization and economic development. in other words, urbanization is an inevitable and demographic force and movement which should not be neglected. informal settlements, which took place in europe after the industrial revolution at the time of the transition from the ...

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www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 5 March 2017 e240 Community-based bundled health interventions are complex and challenging to implement, monitor, and assess in informal settlements (slums). Such settlements in urban areas are generally characterised by congestion, squalid conditions, deprivation, violence, crime, and poor sanitation. In Asia and Africa, the numbers of informal settlements have g...

A significant public policy trend is the increased use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) procedures, such as mediation and arbitration, in a variety of settings. Mediation is the most utilized, yet least analyzed, of these procedures. This article proposes a general equilibrium framework to analyze mediation. Mediators function as Walrasian auctioneers by altering tradeoff among bargainin...