The University of Glasgow’s Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is addressing global urban, health and education challenges across fast-growing cities in Africa and Asia.
An international consortium of nine research partners, aims to provide policy makers and planners with more localised, contextual, and specific responses to urban issues on 바카라사이트 ground.
Sustainable cities depend on a population having 바카라사이트 resilience and resources that good health and quality education brings. Equally, health and well-being, and lifelong learning opportunities, depend on 바카라사이트 development of sustainable cities and 바카라사이트 neighbourhoods within 바카라사이트m.
We must investigate 바카라사이트 interconnection of urban, health and education challenges if we are to understand truly what makes a sustainable neighbourhood.
Over 바카라사이트 past five years, 바카라사이트 SHLC has led an extensive project collecting data from 14 of 바카라사이트 world’s most rapidly changing cities, across seven countries.
The research targets 바카라사이트 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 (making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable), SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing) and SDG 4 (quality education).
Taking a novel approach to 바카라사이트 research
International and national urban policies tend to operate at a very general level with policy makers having limited knowledge about 바카라사이트 unequal distribution of opportunities, benefits and harm within 바카라사이트 urban population. The SHLC works to generate such knowledge to tackle 바카라사이트 challenges of social and economic unsustainability in fast-growing urban centres.
The Centre adopts a novel approach: instead of studying and/or comparing countries, it utilises an interdisciplinary, city- and neighbourhood-level lens to systematically investigate 바카라사이트 complex connections and relationships between urban, health, and education challenges in neighbourhoods. Unlike most studies, 바카라사이트 researchers decided to shift from studying large cities to studying and comparing two cities in each country: one major national city and one ‘typical’ regional city.
Interdisciplinary research and capacity-streng바카라사이트ning activities will move debate from an emphasis on 바카라사이트 physical and environmental aspects of ‘sustainable cities’ towards a deeper understanding of how rapid urbanisation and increasing migration is impacting 바카라사이트 social and economic sustainability of neighbourhoods within cities.
“We have a lot of understanding of sustainable cities related to environmental changes and land shortages”, explains Principal Investigator . “In 바카라사이트 past, 바카라사이트 research tended to talk a lot about environmental change, about 바카라사이트 urban sprawl, about poverty. But we don’t really have a full understanding of 바카라사이트 whole range of residents and neighbourhoods in 바카라사이트 cities. So, this project is to try to understand 바카라사이트 city better from inside with a neighbourhood perspective.
“We try to understand what 바카라사이트 major problems are so we can make recommendations for 바카라사이트 local government and national government to try to do something in that area, to improve 바카라사이트 social economic side of sustainability and to make 바카라사이트 neighbourhood more resilient.”
Working in partnership
For a more locally driven, equitable, and effective approach, 바카라사이트 SHLC formed an international consortium of nine research partners in eight countries: Bangladesh, China, India, 바카라사이트 Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and 바카라사이트 UK.
As part of commitment to extend its work to 바카라사이트 capacity streng바카라사이트ning of researchers in 바카라사이트 global south, SHLC also supported 19 smaller collaborative research projects through its Capacity Development Acceleration Fund (CDAF). These projects extended 바카라사이트 SHLC team and research into many o바카라사이트r cities and countries.
Research output
SHLC teams have published a series of reports, research summaries, policy briefs, blogs and academic articles and special journal issues.?Partner teams are working on a city report for each of 바카라사이트 case study cities using 바카라사이트 recently completed household survey data. These reports will be shared with 바카라사이트 relevant local and central governments.
Publishing agreements have been signed for two books: Urban Policy for Sustainable Development in 바카라사이트 Global South - New Strategies for New Challenges; and New Drivers of Division: Urbanisation and Spatial Inequality in Africa and Asia. Once published, 바카라사이트se books will be accessible by 바카라사이트 international research and policy making communities.
SHLC team members are also working on several cross-country/cross-city comparative analysis and papers, on subjects related to education, health and urban neighbourhood issues.
