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Smart cities are addressing infrastructure issues, yet the housing crisis persists. Can digital technology bridge this gap and reshape urban life?
Development studies/Information technology/Sustainability studies

The smart city and the urban housing crisis

Seyedeh Zahra Hosseini Seyed Mostafa Parpanchi Martin Wynn
September 7, 2023

Smart cities are addressing infrastructure issues, yet the housing crisis persists. Can digital technology bridge this gap and reshape urban life?

Asian studies/Development studies/Economic Policy/Economics

Effect of internal and external remittances on expenditure inequality in Pakistan

Waqas Shair Mumtaz Anwar Chaudhry
September 5, 2023

How do remittances, migration, and inequality in Pakistan affect household expenditure?

Volunteers are the lifeblood of nonprofit organisations, and it is important that they are satisfied with their experiences
Development studies/Ethics/Public administration/Social work

How to keep shelter volunteers happy: Insights from a Michigan study

Laura A Reese
May 6, 2023

How can animal shelters create a welcoming environment for their volunteers? Discover the policies and practices that lead to volunteer satisfaction.

Development studies/Education/Public policy/Sustainability studies

Educating sustainability with old tools and new challenges

Frans Kaiser Ana I. Melo Angela Yung Chi Hou
February 13, 2023

How can we assess the learning curriculum with Sustainable Development Goals in mind?

Development studies/Geopolitics

Partnerships perpetuating the global North-South divide

Malgorzata Blicharska Claudia Teutschbein Richard Smithers
January 24, 2023

To accelerate a meaningful delivery of sustainable development by 2030, we need to address the growing existential threats to all our futures.

Development studies/Energy/Environment

The dichotomy between Kenya’s quest for renewable energy and social displacement

Lilian Namuma S. Kongani
January 24, 2023

What actions can countries like Kenya take to create an enabling environment for sustainable development and reverse global warming?

Development studies/Public health/Race & ethnic studies

Digital inclusion for ethnic, elderly and disabled populations is key for social inclusion

Panayiota Tsatsou
January 4, 2023

How can we better include vulnerable populations in the digital domain and make more sense of their cultural and social specificities?

Development studies/Energy/Environment/Public policy

Setting the sun on solar energy: The story of the world’s most successful off-grid renewables programme

Laura Emilia Hellqvist
December 16, 2022

How can we guarantee long-term energy access to the 770 million people in the world living without electricity?

Development studies/Environment/Information technology

Can digital technologies deliver the circular economy?

Martin Wynn Peter Jones
December 13, 2022

Technology is a key enabler of the transition to a circular economy - a complex issue that involves changing the way things have been done for decades.

Development studies/Public administration/Public policy

Seven years into the 17 Sustainable Development Goals: How are we doing?

Lars Carlsen
December 12, 2022

All the sustainable development goals are interconnected, and a change in one goal will create both intended and unintended consequences on other goals.

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