ion, and the like. The science of climate change and its impacts is very uncertain, though this does not distinguish it from the science of water and sanitation. A more obvious distinction is that whereas progress on water and sanitation is often inhibited by a tendency to turn to outdated models of improvement, progress on adaptation to climate change is inhibited by the lack of models to turn...

One of the land development problems of developing countries is to provide readily available land for new urbanization demands. Compensation based procedures are mostly used land provision methods around the world in urban land development applications but it is both expensive and mandatory. To provide new settlements and built-up areas, there should be a more effective land redistribution proc...

This article is a review of the PhD thesis undertaken by Joanna Vearey that explores local government responses to the urban health challenges of migration, informal settlements, and HIV in Johannesburg, South Africa. Urbanisation in South Africa is a result of natural urban growth and (to a lesser extent) in-migration from within the country and across borders. This has led to the development ...

This paper describes the impacts of unplanned urban expansion and land surface change in the city of Bamenda in Cameroon, the underlying causes and the ecological and social implications. This expansion has placed great stress on forest, land and water ecosystems. Much of the city’s rapid growth in population has been accommodated in informal settlements on steep slopes and flood plains, with l...

mashhad, as the second metropolis of iran with a population of 2.5 million, now hosts 820,000 people who are unauthorized residenrts of 60 informal settlements spread over 3200 hectares. kuye nohdarreh is one of such settlements with a population of 27,000 people, in an area of 80 hectares, located in the 9th district of mashhad municipality and selected as case study in this research. this art...