Although urban women generally enjoy some advantages over their rural counterparts, a
range of gender inequalities and injustices persist in urban areas that constrain their …

Climate shock‐related water insecurity has a significant impact on poverty, and vice versa,
with poor people adversely impacted by different hazards. Many studies have focused on …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

Develo** regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and
women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South …

New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin
America contain some of the world's most life-and health-threatening human environments …

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban
than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the develo** world is critical …

The article analyzes water access in cities in the global South. We examine two challenges
to water access from the perspective of households: intermittent services and affordability …

It is anticipated that global warming and related climate changes that are predicted to occur
over the next century will significantly increase the weather-related risks facing human …

This desk review asks how the ongoing processes of urban and local government
development in Sub-Saharan Africa can and should benefit the countries, and what …

The global burden of fetching water, particularly its effects on individuals and societies, is
largely unknown because comparative analysis of the global data available is incomplete …