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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"peri-urban"”.
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Spatial urban and peri-urban biodiversity patterns
Urbanisation is one of the major drivers of land use change, habitat fragmentation and biodiversity loss. However, urban areas should not be considered as “ecological deserts”. Instead, they have the potential to support diverse communities, on condition that suitable habitat patches occur. To …
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Peri-urban development in Africa: a Kenyan case study
Studies of African urban development have used the term “peri-urban" to refer to residential development at a city’s edge. No one, however, has developed a precise definition of peri-urban areas which guides this research. This study attempts to define peri-urban areas using an urban economic model …
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Assessing customary land administration systems for peri-urban land in Ghana
… Colonization, increased population, rapid urbanisation has placed enormous pressure on customary tenure, especially in peri-urban areas. This study investigates customary administration in peri-urban Ghana. Using critical realism and multimethodology, peri-urban customary tenure in Accra …
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Integrating land administration systems in peri-urban customary areas in Ghana
Dual land administration systems operate in many peri-urban customary areas in subSaharan Africa (Burns, 2007), yet the rationality behind them is different, and possibly conflicting (Watson, 2003). The conflicting rationalities between the dual systems have created binaries in land administration …
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Unreliable water supplies and household coping strategies in peri-urban South Africa
… per month. This thesis examines household experiences of unreliable water supplies and in particular, explores the question as to what constitutes a reliable water supply, and household responses to unreliable water supplies. The analysis draws on literature reviews and a household survey …
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Community mobilization and ecological outcomes in peri-urban Mexico City, 1989-1992
… City developed swiftly, thus engendering rapid urbanization and a demographic boom. The majority of population growth occurred on peri-urban agricultural and ecological conservation lands and manifested as irregular settlements: illegal and structurally precarious urban developments without …
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Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised, South African youth
… they face. To evaluate what South African peri-urban youth desire in their education and futures, as well as the challenges they experience, a seven-part survey was conducted with 250 youth from five townships in South Africa. Responses showed that whilst participants strongly value and …
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Visualizing and modeling Peri-Urban drinking water supply and planning in Pune, Maharashtra
As cities grow and rural fringes are urbanized, an in-between village state is emerging, that scholars are attempting to categorize as "Peri-Urban". Yet there are no existing models to quantify the population movements, infrastructure needs, and social characteristics of this rapidly emerging …
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Stakeholder-engaged peri-urban trail development at Swiss Valley Park: perspectives of stakeholder organizations
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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Quantitative measurement of spatial accessibility to locations both in urban and peri-urban environments
Last-mile delivery in the context of transportation and supply chain refers to the final stage of the product delivery process. The last mile is often the most challenging part of transporting packages to their final destinations. It is essential to have easily accessible infrastructure so that …
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Accessing land in the city s peri-urban areas: The case of Lilongwe, Malawi
… is arguably key to the attainment of sustainable urbanisation and development. Studies show that high urbanisation rates have resulted in a high demand for serviced land and housing in the face of a slow rates of formal provision of the same. This is particularly true in Lilongwe's peri-urban …
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The growth and characteristics of peri-urban communities: a case study in Jakarta, Indonesia
… characteristics and the composition of peri-urban communities, and explains the determinants of intrametropolitan mobility associated with peri-urban growth in Jakarta, Indonesia. In the first part of the analysis, the findings suggest that most of peri-urban residents are migrants …
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Determinants of participation of Msunduzi local municipality’s peri-urban households in the digital finance economy
… of the degree of Master of Accounting, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Assessment of Waste Battery Management in Peri-Urban Settlement, Case Study of Kigamboni/ Temeke District
… study assessed the Waste Batteries Management in Peri-Urban Settlement, Case study Kigamboni/Temeke District. Specifically the study was done at Kisalawe II ward, Tumaini and Kichangani Mtaa jurisdiction area. A total of 57 respondents from Tumaini and Kichangani Mtaa as well as officials from …
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Interrogating the 'crisis of fatherhood' : discursive constructions of fathers amongst peri-urban Xhosa-speaking adolescents
Mass media as well as academic literature frequently refer to the high prevalence of paternal non-residence in South Africa as a 'crisis of fatherhood'. To interrogate this apparent 'crisis', this study explored how Xhosa-speaking adolescents - whose voices have been predominantly ignored in …
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Suffering for water: infrastructure, household access and its fluid negotiations in peri-urban Tamale, Ghana
… has focused on practices, strategies and experiences of everyday water access. This study engages with this issue in two neighborhoods, Kpanvo and Katariga, in Tamale, Ghana, exploring the ways in which residents negotiate to access water services in practice. Through participant …
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The environmental and social impacts of modes of transport: a case study of Chilanga peri-urban
… on the environment. A study was conducted in peri-urban of Kafue District, Lusaka Province. Transport facilitates movement of people, goods and services from one place to another, thereby bringing about development. Though transport is vital to development it affects the environment …
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Hungary’s peri-urban middle-class – How households without real estate wealth realize social and personal aspirations
… society: middleincome persons who live in peri-urban, not residentially zoned neighbourhoods. These areas, usually former allotment gardens or recreational zones for second homes, lack the residential infrastructure and amenities – paved roads, street lights, access to shops and services …
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An assessment of the contribution of peri-urban agriculture on household food security in Tongaat, eThekwini Municipality
… have not decreased as one would have expected. Urban and peri-urban agriculture have been introduced as a livelihood strategy to alleviate poverty and ensure household food security. Food insecurity is conventionally theorized as a rural development problem and the current theoretical tools to …
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Impacts of Household Credit on the Poor in Peri-urban Areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
… has not considered all settings, especially the peri-urban areas of rapidly industrialising Asian countries. In these areas human capital is the main asset of the poor, so it is important to understand the input of credit on human capital. Therefore, this thesis begins with Chapter 2 showing the …
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