Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Social Justice and Social Sustainability in Public Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects in Nigeria: Case of the Eko Atlantic City Project
Acute financial crises in Nigeria have compelled governments to implement various Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects to address huge infrastructure gaps. Such PPP projects however, have not always been popular with the local community who are directly affected by this infrastructure, with ‘social justice’ as a critical concern. This paper analyses issues of public perceptions …
Climate Change and Cities: Are People the Solution?
Climate change has emerged as a significant urban planning and policy issue. Cities have been identified to play a significant role in forming sustainable urban adaptation strategies for climate change mitigation. One of such sustainable strategies is the utilization of stakeholder participation (bottom-down approach) in the decision making process. This ideology has been argued by …
Research and Pedagogy: Aspiring English Teachers’ Perspectives on the Role of Educational Research. A Philippine University Context
Inspired by the notion of promoting research-engaged teachers, this research follows the footsteps of Simon Borg (2009) in his works in relation to encouraging teachers to engage in and with research; with teacher-trainees in mind, rather than experienced in-service teachers. This research sees the advantage of the Educational Research module in the curriculum of teacher …
Identification of Water Quality by the Assessment of Heavy Metals in Ground Water From Selected Auto-Workshop Areas of Rawalpindi And Islamabad,Pakistan
The automobile workshops are pervasive across many cities in Pakistan and most of them are existing even close to the residential areas. Activities which are being carried out within these enterprises, use and release many heavy metals with stern consequences for human health. Rawalpindi and Islamabad are among the main cities of Pakistan where automobile …
The Influence of School Contextual Factors on the Implementation of Sexuality Education to Secondary School Learners in Kwazulu-natal, South Africa
In a bid to reduce rates of HIV and AIDS, teenage pregnancy and STIs in the high-risk age group of adolescence, the sexuality education programme in the Life Orientation (LO) curriculum is aimed at providing standardised prevention of risky sexual behaviour to all school-going youth in South Africa (SA). The programme is dependent on LO …