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Building Resilient Urban Infrastructure and Innovation for Urban Public Health: A Case Study of Bloemfontein, South Africa

Posted on November 27, 2024November 12, 2024 by CASAS

CASAS’ member, Johannes Bhanye and his colleagues Siphokazi Rammile, Timothy Lehobo, and Mareli Hugo has published this chapter in the book “Sustainable Development Goals and Urban Health”. Abstract: This chapter examines the relationship between SDG 9 and urban public health, refecting on successes, pitfalls and inherent gaps in attaining this goal and how they affect…

Pandemics and the specter of hunger in Brazil: a multidimensional crisis and a negationist president

Posted on April 30, 2020November 1, 2020 by Dibe Ayoub

The COVID-19 pandemic arrives in Brazil at a time of political and economic crisis, deepened by the fact that the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is one of the few remaining world negationist leaders – frequently minimizing the gravity of the pandemic and urging for the end of social isolation measures so that economic activity may…