In the next twenty years, urban populations in Africa are expected to double, while land cover could triple. An often-overlooked dimension of this transformation is growth small towns and medium-sized cities. paper, we explore ways which straddling rural life, consider how insights into in-betweenness can contribute our understanding Africa’s transformation. particular, examine urbanism produce...

STUDY OBJECTIVE In a previous study a higher than expected prevalence of asthma was found in Lake Munmorah, a coastal town near two power stations, compared with another coastal control town. This study aimed to compare atopy, bronchial hyperreactivity, and reported symptoms of asthma in the power station town and a second control area with greater socioeconomic similarity. DESIGN A cross sec...

Land degradation is one of the significant issues the human beings are confronted with, which has become a bottleneck of restricting the sustainable development of the regional society and economy. In order to ascertain the root causes contributed to the land degradation and characteristics of land degradation, Bijiang watershed, the most important Lead-Zinc mine area of Lanping county of Yunna...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper looks at the role of spatial proximity of other towns' decisions to hold an override vote on the decision of a Massachusetts town to hold an initial override vote under Proposition 2½. We find that if a neighboring town has already held a vote at some point in the past, a town's likelihood of holding an initial vote increases by 10– 15%. A prior vote being succe...

In 1965 the Apartheid government of South Africa followed through on a decision to rezone the District Six area of Cape Town as a whites-only zone. Subsequently, the region was almost completely destroyed, resulting in a huge loss of South African Heritage. All that remains today are a handful of artifacts and an archive of photographs, all of which are housed at the District Six Museum in Cape...

Stephen D. Lawn and Mark P. Nicol Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom; Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Division of Medical Microbiology and Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Healt...

In this paper, we present a virtual heritage application called MHEX (Mobile Heritage Exploration for George Town) that provides a technologyintegrated environment that allows users to gain knowledge of various heritage sitesthrough gaming on mobile platform. With this application, everybody can learn about the significance of various heritage sites through a game that combines the games of mon...

Robert J. M. Crawford*, Azwianewi B. Makhado, Philip A. Whittington, Rod M. Randall, W. Herman Oosthuizen and Lauren J. Waller 1 Branch Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Animal Demography Unit, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa 3 Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Eli...

1 School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 3 Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 4 Ghana Health Service/School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, 5 School of Public Health, Makerere Univers...