Patrick Wakely's scientific contributions

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This paper briefly reviews recent and current approaches to the formulation and implementation of urban housing policies in towns and cities in the global South, with emphasis on local government-community participation and partnerships. It looks ahead into the implications of the lasting impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and tenets of climate chang...
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Community participation and the engagement of urban low-income households in the planning and management of their neighbourhoods and the improvement and maintenance of their domestic environment and services are now firmly lodged in the international rhetoric of urban poverty alleviation and slum improvement, under the general banner of ‘good gover...
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Urban housing policies, in the opening decades of the 21st Century are in disarray. The objectives and targets set for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2015–30 and the United Nations New Urban Agenda call for comprehensive urban housing policies, based on inclusion and participation. This paper argues for housing policies and implementation...

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... Its value has impacted the gross domestic product (GDP) of some advanced economies (Anthony, 2022: Chien & Liu, 2022 and is a major source of employment and satisfaction for citizens in developing countries (Adabre et al., 2022). This may not be unconnected to the reason successive housing policies in developing countries in Asia (Wakely, 2022), Africa (Odoyi & Riekkinen, 2022) and Europe (Shahab et al., 2021) have centred on how their citizens can have unrestricted access to a qualitative housing environment. The quality of housing environment, as one of the key elements of housing, has been recognised to have a substantial influence on the well-being of residents, their living standard and productivity, as well as environment sustainability (Coley et al., 2013;Li & Wu, 2013;Tao, 2015). ...
... Engaging a diverse community of stakeholders in dialogue around sustainable development goals has proved to be a successful strategy to advance sustainable development outcomes [1][2][3][4]. Without the engagement of local stakeholders, and especially those most impacted by planned development initiatives, development efforts can fail to accomplish their objectives and may even exacerbate existing disparities and socially and environmentally unsustainable outcomes [5][6][7]. ...