1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996213086003316

Titolo

American journal on addictions

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : American Psychiatric Press

[Philadelphia, PA], : Taylor & Francis Inc

[New York?], : Wiley-Blackwell

ISSN

1521-0391

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

616

616.86

Soggetti

Substance abuse

Substance abuse - Treatment

Behavior, Addictive - therapy

Substance-Related Disorders - therapy

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Sommario/riassunto

" ... covers a wide variety of topics ranging from codependence to genetics, epidemiology to dual diagnostics, etiology to neuroscience, and much more. Features of the journal, all written by experts in the field, include special overview articles, clinical or basic research papers, clinical updates, and book reviews within the area of addictions."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822128003321

Autore

Huchzermeyer Marie

Titolo

Cities with 'slums' [[electronic resource] ] : from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa / / Marie Huchzermeyer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Claremont, South Africa, : UCT Press, c2011

ISBN

1-920541-62-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

307.336096

307.760967

Soggetti

Squatter settlements - Africa

Slums - Government policy - Africa

Housing policy - South Africa

Urban poor - Housing - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1. The urban context in the new millennium. Informal settlements, global governance and Millennium Development Goal Seven Target 11 -- Urban competitiveness or improving poor people's lives: why 'Cities Without Slums'? -- Informal settlements in the discourse on urban informality -- Pt. 2. 'Slum' eradication in action. 'Slum' elimination in Zimbabwe and Nigeria -- South Africa's drive to eradicate informal settlements by 2014 -- Flagship 'slum' eradication pilot projects: flaws and controversies in the N2 Gateway in Cape Town and Kibera-Soweto in Nairobi -- Pt. 3. The struggle against 'slum' eradication in South Africa. A new target-driven upgrading agenda: space for rights-based demands? -- A challenge to legal regression in the KwaZulu-Natal Elimination and Prevention of Re-emergence of Slums Act of 2007 -- A challenge to the state's avoidance of upgrading: the Harry Gwala informal settlement -- Towards a right to the city.

Sommario/riassunto

"The UN's Millennium Development Target to improve the lives of 100 million 'slum' dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. ... [The book] traces the proliferation of this misunderstanding across several African countries, and explains how current urban policy ... encourages this interpretation. The cases it



presents cover a range of conflicts between poor urban residents and the local and national authorities that seek to curtail their 'right to the city'."--Back cover.