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Toward a community resilience assessment: exploring fertile soils in the spanish context
(2017-05-18)
Over the last few years, the concept of resilience has been increasingly used in scientific and policy circles. In particular, the focus on the potential role played by communities in enhancing resilience ...
Rehumanising refugee camps through sustainable environmental interventions: exploring the need for green initiatives in and around refugee camps in Lesvos
(2019-05-20)
‘68.5 million displaced people worldwide’ is a common phrase, known to most in the humanitarian field to emphasize the importance of the attention the refugee crisis needs (UNHCR, 2018). What we are ...
The scales of attachment: exploring territory attachment at Nahr el-Bared refugee camp and the mechanisms to overcome transience
(2018-05-22)
Refugee camps, as emergency responses, embodies a hall of characteristics marked by the permanent temporariness. However, they gradually evolve, becoming informal urban settlements. Nahr el-Bared, the ...
Immigrants’ employment and integration in Barcelona: a qualitative study
(2017-05-18)
The research addresses the role played by employment in the Integration process of immigrants in Barcelona, Spain. It regards two main identified aspects of Integration: 1) legal insertion (related to ...
Integrative refugee housing: the efficacy of adaptative reuse in the United States and Germany
(2017-05-25)
The combination of recent refugee crises and related anti-immigration political sentiment has led an increasing number of countries to enact restrictive refugee policies. For instance, despite a long, ...
Are we exporting problems or solutions? A model for Transitional Field Hospitals in Natural Disasters
(2019-05-20)
Natural disaster and conflict scenarios present challenging environments for healthcare treatment. In remote or underdeveloped areas where already scant healthcare services exist, this need is exacerbated ...
Social and physical integration of refugees: comparing models of urban integration in Barcelona and Athens
(2018-05-28)
The current humanitarian crisis in the Middle-East has enhanced the long process of forced migration over the last decades. The effect of this massive emigration has affected the physical nature of the ...
Where are the NGOs? A case study of State-Led urban upgrading processes in Medellin, Colombia
(2019-05-20)
The focus of this thesis is the role NGOs have taken in response to government led urban upgrading processes in the context of Latin America. As more local governments in the region have adopted integration ...
Female consciousness and social activism: a gender análisis of the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca de Barcelona
(2018-05-22)
This thesis examines the role of women in the Plataforma de los Afectados por la Hipoteca de Barcelona (PAH BCN), a movement fighting for the right to housing. While the female presence in the PAH BCN ...