Using GIS in constructing area-based physical deprivation index in Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Habitat International

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 264-272

  Khadr, Zeinab ^a,b   Nour el Dein, Mohamed ^a,b   Hamed, Ramadan ^a,b  

^a Social Research Center of the American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cairo; GIS; Informal settelment; Slums

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; GIS; INDEX METHOD; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LIVING STANDARD; MODEL VALIDATION; POVERTY DETERMINANT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANKING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR;

CAIRO [CAIRO (GVR)]; CAIRO [EGYPT]; EGYPT;

EID: 73149101846     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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