This epidemiological study examines links between dust exposure and cardiopulmonary hospital admissions in Kuwait and southern Iraq, analysing 752,299 cases. It estimates exposure-response relationships and models potential health benefits from reducing fine particulate pollution and dust events to support public health preparedness and mitigation.

This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines how urban citizenship, civic participation and community engagement have evolved in Ukraine, and what they mean for inclusive and democratic urban recovery. It explores the influence of Soviet-era governance, post-independence political transformations, decentralisation reforms, the…

This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines the evolution and current state of Ukrainian university education in urban development and planning, considering its historical legacies, institutional reforms and the impact of war. It finds that higher education has diversified beyond traditional architecture and engineering…

​​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines the past, present and future of Ukraine’s built environment professions, arguing that architects, planners, engineers and related specialists are central to the country’s reconstruction and European integration. It traces their evolution from the centralised Soviet system through…

​​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines the evolution of Ukraine’s social housing policy, from Soviet-era public housing provision and post-1991 privatisation to recent efforts to expand social and affordable housing in response to the war. It finds that the near-disappearance of public housing provision, limited…

​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines how Ukraine’s housing system has evolved from its Soviet and post-Soviet legacy to the current context of war, displacement and reconstruction. It looks at housing stock, affordability, tenure, rental markets, social housing, finance, planning, energy efficiency and building…

​​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines Ukraine’s spatial planning system at a major point of transformation, shaped by decentralization, European integration and the demands of post-war reconstruction. It traces the evolution of the planning system from its imperial and Soviet legacies through post-independence reforms,…

​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. The paper examines how Ukraine’s decentralization reform has shaped local governance and recovery planning, tracing the evolution from highly centralized Soviet-era governance through post-independence devolution and the formal decentralization reforms initiated after 2014. It finds that the transfer of…

​​This paper is one of nine drafted by national entities in Ukraine as part of a UN-Habitat-commissioned collection entitled Thematic Paper Series Informing Urban Recovery Approaches in Ukraine. Municipal governance is central to Ukraine’s recovery because many of the country’s most important recovery decisions and service-delivery challenges are managed where people live: in territorial hromadas through local self-government bodies (LSGBs). Decentralization reforms since 2014 expanded local…