Mapping urban–rural differences in the worldwide achievement of sustainable development goals: land-energy-air nexus by Yunyu Tian, Nandin-Erdene Tsendbazar, Eveline van Leeuwen, Martin Herold

“…We use an Earth Observation approach to map the land-energy-air sustainability nexus and highlight distinct urban–rural gradients worldwide (2000–2015). In the Global South, urban areas perform relatively better in land-energy-air sustainability trends than rural areas, which are the least sustainable in our global comparative analysis. …”
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Prevent the rise of a black messiah: Madness or revolution by Hlulani M. Mdingi

“…This article through Black liberation theology seeks to present the idea of messianism as both an experience of Africans and oppressed peoples in the Global North and Global South. The idea of messianism is part of biblical reception in Africa and the African experience of colonialism. …”
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Influence of demographic characteristics and social network on peri-urban smallholder farmers adaptation strategies - evidence from southern Ghana by Reginald Anum, Daniel Adu Ankrah, Jonathan Nicholas Anaglo

“…AbstractWith a gamut of climate variability and change literature that examines rural spaces in the global south, and in the case of Ghana, rural spaces in the northern part, this article turns focus to a less targeted empirical space of peri-urban geography to examine demographic factors and the extent to which membership of social networks intersect with adaptation strategies. …”
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Thinking beyond Ecology: Can Reskilling Youth Lead to Sustainable Transitions in Agri-Food Systems? by Deborah Dutta, C. Shambu Prasad, Arnab Chakraborty

“…Green and decent work in the Global South is inextricably linked to sustaining rural livelihoods especially in agriculture that has undergone significant deskilling under the top-down, technocentric assemblages of the Green Revolution. …”
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Unpacking the role of transport inequalities among older adults for accessing healthcare in Bengaluru, India by Divya Sussana Patil, Ajay Bailey, Sobin George, Martin Hyde, Lena Ashok

“…However, these often posechallenges for older adults in the global South. This study applies the three concepts of ‘motility’ (access, competence and appropriation), to explore transport inequalities and barriers to access healthcare services for older adults in Bengaluru, India. …”
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Socio-environmental Vulnerability From Community Feminisms: the Disaster Caused by the 19s Earthquake in Tetela Del Volcan, Morelos, Mexico by Alejandra M. González-Ramírez, Frida Güiza, Martha Shirley Reyes-Quintero, María Elena Méndez-López, Pablo Torres-Lima

“…The aim of this paper is to build dialogues among the socio-environmental vulnerability framework influenced by the political ecology, and feminismos comunitarios’ framework based on Epistemologias del Sur to decolonise the western disasters approach in the Global South. This research is based on a disaster that took place in a Mexican peasant community on September 19th, 2017. …”
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Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance by Dina N. Rasquinha

“…However, wood harvesting for subsistence or livelihood dependence is challenged by conservation narratives of forest degradation and loss in many parts of the Global South. Despite a vast network of protected areas that regulate access to resource extraction, forest dependence continues. …”
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Crossref as a bibliographic discovery tool in the arts and humanities by Ángel Borrego, Jordi Ardanuy, Llorenç Arguimbau

“…An analysis of the coverage of ERIH PLUS journals shows that Crossref indexes more sources than Scopus and includes additional journals from Eastern and Southern Europe and the Global South. Crossref limitations arise when analyzing the amount of metadata deposited by publishers. …”
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A CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR CONVERTING OPENSTREETMAP CONTRIBUTION TO GEOSPATIAL MACHINE LEARNING TRAINING DATA by H. Li, A. Zipf, A. Zipf

“…In the recent decade, Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI), in particular the OpenStreetMap (OSM), has helped to fill substantial data gaps in base maps, especially in Global South, thus has become a promising source of massive, free training data together with rich and detailed semantic information for geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) applications. …”
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Smartphone use and well-being in Pakistan: Comparing the effect of self-reported and actual smartphone use by Waqas Ejaz, Sacha Altay, Ghazala Naeem

“…We examined the relationship between both self-reported and actual smartphone use and well-being in Pakistan, a country that is under-researched in the Global South. Additionally, we investigated the moderating effect of the fear of missing out (FoMO). …”
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‘A Better Life for All’: Prefigurative and Strategic Politics in Southern Africa by Larry A. Swatuk, Peter Vale

“…Although located in the Global South, Southern Africa is not immune to these pressures and processes. …”
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‘Why did you return?’: North-South return migration and family ties in the case of Iran by Sara Hormozinejad

“…Adopting a bottom-up approach and drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews with eleven Iranian returnees, this study asks: How do return migrants perceive and articulate what motivated and facilitated their decision to return from a prosperous country in the Global North to the challenging living conditions of their home country in the Global South? How do they explain the role of their stay-behind families in shaping their return migration trajectory? …”
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A framework to assess the role of social cash transfers in building adaptive capacity for climate resilience by Sayanti Sengupta, Cecilia Costella

“…ABSTRACTClimate change is increasingly affecting vulnerable groups and resulting in dire social and economic consequences, especially for those in the Global South. Managing current and emerging climate-related risks will require increasing individual’s and communities’ resilience, including enhancing absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. …”
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Debating Black slavery in management and organizational studies from decolonial and afro-diasporic perspectives by Cíntia Cristina Silva de Araújo, Alexandre Faria, Jair Nascimento Santos, Nidhi Srinivas

“…Abstract This special issue, generously accepted and published by Cadernos EBAPE.BR, emerges from the daily life-preserving struggles in Brazil and other parts of the Global South against the radical invisibility of colonial and racial oppressions at a time of the double pandemic of COVID-19 and white supremacy. …”
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Evolution and Drivers of Energy Embodied in Intermediate and Final Trade Between China and the World by Quanzhi Xia, Mengyao Han, Xiaofang Wu

“…The Global North played a key role in China's trade for final consumption, whereas the Global South had a close relationship with China in production‐driven intermediate trade. …”
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With or without us? An audit of disability research in the southern African region by Judith McKenzie, Gubela Mji, Siphokazi Gcaza

“…Background: Disability research in the global South has not received significant critical consideration as to how it can be used to challenge the oppression and marginalisation of people with disabilities in low-income and middle-income countries. …”
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A Natural-Worker Leaves the Colonial Visual Archive: The Art of Vered Nissim by Sivan Rajuan Shtang

“…Thus, Nissim joins a transnational phenomenon of global south artists who create political conditions enabling the self-imaging of colonized peoples, empowering the reading of colonial imagery and the historical meta-narratives attached to it through their situated knowledge and lived experience and, thus, constructing a counter history communicated visually.…”
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Splitting the South: China and India’s Divergence in International Environmental Negotiations by Stokes, Leah, Giang, Amanda Chi Wen, Selin, Noelle E

“…However, considering environmental cooperation in a North-South dichotomy obscures important variation within the Global South, particularly as emerging economies become more important politically, economically, and environmentally. …”
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Human Code Exchange (HCX) : A Community-Value-Driven Framework for Data Governance in Humanitarian Crises by Vibbi, Leonard Francis

“…With its core focus on the community, HCX aligns humanitarian data initiatives with the intrinsic values of communities, particularly in the regions of the global south. Our work lays the foundation for a refined data governance framework that places emphasis on ethical data collection in vulnerable communities.…”
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Climate resilience in informal settlements: the role of natural infrastructure by Rauf, Hanna A., Wolff, Erich, Hamel, Perrine

“…A large share of urban development in the Global South consists of informal settlements. In addition to multiple everyday risks, informal dwellers face climate-related risks such as flooding and heat waves. …”
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