Agriculture is an important engine for economic growth and a vigorous driver of poverty reduction in developing countries. In Pakistan, rice production is one of the most essential sectors. However, it has been underperforming, largely because of low women’s participation, which is often a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy. Unfortunately, previous studies have seldom recognized and emphasized the role of women in triggering agricultural and rural development.

Topsoil is required to be stripped and reused to maintain land productivity in mining and construction activities. However, as a great threat to unprotected soil, wind erosion on topsoil replacement sites has not received enough research attention, which hinders the efficient implementation of wind erosion control measures in the right time and place on a national scale. This study aims to evaluate wind erosion on unprotected topsoil replacement sites (WEUTRS) in mainland China, examining its spatiotemporal pattern and demonstrating its significance for the relevant research and industry.

Land cover patterns in sub-Saharan Africa are rapidly changing. This study aims to quantify the land cover change and to identify its major determinants by using the Drivers, Pressures, State, Impact, Responses (DPSIR) framework in the Ethiopian Gozamin District over a period of 32 years (1986 to 2018). Satellite images of Landsat 5 (1986), Landsat 7 (2003), and Sentinel-2 (2018) and a supervised image classification methodology were used to assess the dynamics of land cover change.

Despite the growing attention on uncontrolled and unprofitable urban sprawling in many African countries, few pragmatic solutions have been raised or effectively implemented. While uncontrolled and unprofitable urban expansions happened primarily due to poor land use management and dysfunctional land market, the cost of land management enforcement and reform is high. This paper suggests that the recently re-emerging special economic zones (SEZs) in Africa could be a practical way of using government intervention to reduce uncontrolled urban expansion and optimize urban land use.

Rapid urbanization has led to the influx of people into urban areas as people seek better life opportunities This migration has however largely not been planned resulting in population explosions in the cities Relying on existing research on the topic and government reports this study finds that many middle and lowincome families in Kenya have ended up living in informal settlements in urban areas due to housing unaffordability The study further determines that the problem of housing is more pronounced in developing countries Studies related to this issue establish that the housing crisis c

Despite the rise to prominence of sustainable planning the state of urgency and the pressure imposed by the extreme competition between metropolitan territories reduce sustainability to a marketoriented doctrine for deregulated urban development The aim of this article is an exploration of the current Athenian urban crisis by centring on sustainable urban development plans territorial planning institutions and urban policies To this end the phenomenon of urban crisis is explained as a derivative of the failure of sustainability reforms By establishing a link between the institutional framew

Green Infrastructure GI facilities have the capacity to enhance health and mitigate Environmental Sustainability Challenges ESC However the extent of the mitigation and health benefits is unclear in developing countries This study examined the impact of GI on ESC and Perceived Health PH of urban residents in Lagos Metropolis Nigeria Multistage sampling technique was used to select 1858 residents of Lagos Metropolis who completed semistructured questionnaires Descriptive statistics and chisquare test were used to explore data distributions and assess the association of the availability of GI

The starting point of this study is the fact that every production system entails a specific spatial organization and changes its physical environment This research is an attempt to understand the industrialization period of Turkeys Early Republican Period 1930s and the spatial effects of the new production system Right after the Turkish War of Independence The Republican Government of Turkey had aimed to establish an independent country and started to carry out a modernization and contemporization project This project had different dimensions appealing to the institutional economical socia

Urban spaces reflect the reality of city life like a mirror This research aims to examine and analyze the advanced aesthetic functional and environmental performance of urban public spaces by assessing the current situation and highlighting the role of creativity in developing these spaces To clarify the research scope ihane Park in stanbul Turkey was studied to define the requirements of creative standards evaluate these competencies and choose the appropriate architectural style and urban furniture In addition to learn ways of preserving those elements for longer life The analytical descr

This article investigates the relationship between the transformation of cities and the right to the city To be able to do this the problems that are created by contemporary urbanization such as social exclusion poverty and environmental degradation are discussed in the first part After that with a special focus on the period starting with the industrial revolution up until today the article explains economic and political motivations behind the urban transformation This part emphasizes how urban change under different forms of capitalism creates and deepens social inequalities in cities Th

Urban renewal of the coastal area has regained importance in recent years The main problem with the citys coastal area is often the insufficient utilization of its potential The paper analyzes the process of urbanization and treatment of the waterfront through the three historical periods 1 traditional city 2 during Modernism and 3 contemporary urbanism Belgrade is chosen as a case study because it is located on the banks of the two rivers the Sava and the Danube and throughout history rivers had a significant role in the urban development of the city A polygon for the methodology of urban

The architecture without an architect in Cappadocia has always been fairy due to its volcanic stone formations and transforming silhouettes In 1973 French architect Jack Avizou highlighted the essence of cave houses as vernacular building types and their potentials for local tourism beyond conventional notions of architectural heritage Upon completing the restoration of cave houses in Uhisar and transforming them to boutique hotels he was nominated for Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 On the other hand Aga Khan Award winner Turkish architect Turgut Cansever had also been advising for