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Giovanni Vinti and Mentore Vaccari
Almost three billion people rely primarily on inefficient and polluting cooking systems worldwide. Household air pollution is a direct consequence of this practice, and it is annually associated with millions of premature deaths and diseases, mainly in l...
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David M. Frohlich,Ramnath Bhat,Matt Jones,Mounia Lalmas,Maxine Frank,Dorothy Rachovides,Roger Tucker,Kiriaki Riga
Pág. pp. 19 - 36 pgs.
Mobile and Web 2.0 technology have the very real potential to democratize the creation and sharing of multimedia content in developing communities, even beyond the levels currently seen in community radio and television. In this article, we report the fi...
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Giovanni Vinti and Mentore Vaccari
Solid waste management (SWM) in rural areas of many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) represents a critical and underrated topic. However, almost half of the world?s population still lives in rural areas and an adequate SWM is crucial in reducing ...
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Babu R. Dawadi, Danda B. Rawat, Shashidhar R. Joshi and Daya S. Baral
The software defined networking (SDN) paradigm with enhanced features of IPv6 offers flexible network management and better network visibility for enhancing overall network performance, network manageability, and security. Thus, along with the IPv6 netwo...
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Lay Shien See, Luke Calo, Benjamin Bannon and Aaron Opdyke
Urban flooding in developing countries represents a growing threat to sustainable development efforts, yet the tools needed to study these infrastructure systems in data-scarce environments are woefully inadequate. This study seeks to propose a standardi...
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Patrizia Riganti
Pág. 16 - 27
This paper discusses the potential of current advancements in Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for cultural heritage preservation, valorization and management within contemporary cities. The paper highlights the potential of virtual environme...
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Mohamed Hesham Madbouly Hussein Khalil, Heba Abdelghani Ismail Elsaay, Ayman Ahmed Ezzat Othman
Pág. 132 - 145
Heritage communities in Egypt have continuously developed to sustain a history of millenniums. Developments have been focused on sustaining the physical heritage such as buildings and cities, yet ignoring the intangible heritage such as stories, memories...
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SAPIA ABDUL RACHMAN,ABDULLAH SUMRAHADI,BADRIYA P MAKOL
This research concludes that development of Muslim communities in the Philippinesprimarily relies on local initiatives and people?s assertive character to institute behavioralreform. It entails a transformation process involving all sectors of the societ...
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Tafadzwa Makonese, Christopher M. S. Bradnum
AbstractThe design of products for developing communities often excludes the end-users in the decision making process. The study aims to investigate public participation and engagement in the design and development of the Tshulu woodstove. Results of thi...
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Edward Jaser
Pág. pp. 38 - 45
Rural communities in developing countries, due to its geographical and demographic conditions, are faced with many challenges. One of the most pressing challenges which affect the life and welfare of citizens in these communities are health awareness and...
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G. Ayorkor Korsah,Jack Mostow,M. Bernardine Dias,Tracy Morrison Sweet,Sarah M. Belousov,M. Frederick Dias,Haijun Gong
Pág. pp. 1 - 19 pgs.
This paper describes Project Kan é , a research endeavor aimed at exploring the role that technology can play in improving child literacy in developing communities. An initial pilot study and a subsequent four-month-long controlled field study in Ghana i...
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José C. Ferreira, Renato Monteiro, Lia Vasconcelos, Cláudio M. Duarte, Filipa Ferreira and Euclides Santos
Marine litter has been considered one of the most serious global challenges, requiring urgent action by governmental bodies, especially in African Small Island Developing States (SIDS), where resources and research are limited. In addition to this, waste...
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Hazem Rashed-Ali
Pág. 59 - 66
The integration of cogeneration systems in residential and mixed-use communities has the potential of reducing their energy demand and harmful emissions and can thus play asignificant role in increasing their environmental sustainability. This study inve...
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Basant Maheshwari, Maria Varua, John Ward, Roger Packham, Pennan Chinnasamy, Yogita Dashora, Seema Dave, Prahlad Soni, Peter Dillon, Ramesh Purohit, Hakimuddin, Tushaar Shah, Sachin Oza, Pradeep Singh, Sanmugam Prathapar, Ashish Patel, Yogesh Jadeja, Brijen Thaker, Rai Kookana, Harsharn Grewal, Kamal Yadav, Hemant Mittal, Michael Chew and Pratap RaoaddShow full author listremoveHide full author list
Sustainable use of groundwater is becoming critical in India and requires effective participation from local communities along with technical, social, economic, policy and political inputs. Access to groundwater for farming communities is also an emotion...
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Juan Fernando Mendoza Ledezma
Pág. 207 - 216
RESUMEN: El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) lleva a cabo el Proyecto Hidroeléctrico El Diquís PHED) el cual se desarrollará entre los cantones de Buenos Aires, Osa, y Pérez Zeledón, ubicados en la Zona Sur de Costa Rica, con el objetivo de ...
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Juan Fernando Mendoza Ledezma
Pág. 207 - 216
RESUMEN: El Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) lleva a cabo el Proyecto Hidroeléctrico El Diquís PHED) el cual se desarrollará entre los cantones de Buenos Aires, Osa, y Pérez Zeledón, ubicados en la Zona Sur de Costa Rica, con el objetivo de ...
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Arshad Khan Khalafzai and Niru Nirupama
In the contemporary world, a revolution in digital technologies has changed our way of life?for better. The role of women is expanding in socio-economic, political and physical spaces; hence their empowerment will contribute toward resilience and capacit...
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Henerica Tazvinga, Oliver Dzobo, Maxwell Mapako
Access to modern energy services is one of the pre-requisites to improved livelihood, yet the poor, particularly in developing countries, remain tied to unhealthy and inefficient traditional fuels. Renewable energy technologies are increasingly popular e...
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Wei Liu, Liyuan He, Jie Xu and Dingde Xu
To reduce the threat of natural disasters, protect natural resources, and promote human wellbeing, Shaanxi Province, China has implemented the largest disaster resettlement project since 2011. It has moved 2.4 million people in three prefectures over 10 ...
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Jessica Rodwell, James H. Williams and Ryan Paulik
Despite the importance of critical infrastructure for the effective functioning of communities, their vulnerability to tsunamis remains unstudied. This study addresses this issue by developing empirical fragility curves for infrastructure components curr...
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