This study quantifies and analyses quality of life in the Gauteng City-Region of South Africa.
First we adapt and extend a method used in research on market regulations to construct …

Using the 2011 South African population census, we provide income and multidimensional
poverty and inequality estimates at the municipal level. We go on to estimate a spatial …

The magnitude increase of Urban Quality of Life studies is directly connected with the
increase of the urban population in the world. Urban Quality of Life is a hierarchical multi …

Quality of urban life (QOUL) has become an important field within urban studies. The
increased level of attention to this topic is due to the increasing importance of QoL studies in …

Human-elephant conflict is an often intractable problem that threatens the contribution of
conservation interventions to human wellbeing and securing livelihoods in Africa and Asia …

Basic urban services refer to the important civic services required for the citizens of urban
areas and for the functioning of cities viz., water supply, sanitation, waste management …

This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic
quality of life (QOL) indices and testing their role on recent migration patterns. Applying the …

A small but growing literature has been concerned about the economic (and environmental)
vulnerability on the level of countries. Less attention is paid to the economic vulnerability of …

It is estimated that by 2050, the world population over the age of 65 will reach 1.5 billion. The
United Nations predicts that the fastest growth will be in Africa, which suffers from extreme …

The time is near where 'therapeutic'bodily assistive devices, developed to mimic species-
typical body structures in order to enable normative body functioning, will allow the wearer to …