This book serves as a comprehensive examination of the challenges and best practices encompassing access to adequate housing in BRICS+ nations. It provides insights into the initiatives that can empower BRICS+ countries to build resilient, inclusive, sustainable cities and communities for the future, relevant to the UN SDG 11.
The book is written in a non-technical style in order to be accessible to various actors including non-specialists. In addition, it takes into account perspectives from various stakeholders, including governments, NGOs, academic institutions, financial institutions and citizens. It consults international frameworks and standards for housing, including treaties, declarations, and conventions on the right to housing. With this, it also provides solutions to creating sustainable cities to realise SDG11 and thereby dignify communities with adequate housing.
Part I: Introduction to Sustainable Housing Development.
Chapter 1:
Overview of the Right to Housing and Sustainable Development Goal 11
Impetus.- Part II: Housing Laws, Policy Frameworks and Strategies.
Chapter
2: International, Regional and Domestic Legal Frameworks Pertinent to
Housing: A Legislative Overview of the BRICS Nations.
Chapter 3: Sustainable
Social Housing Challenges in Global South: the Role of BRICS+ in Promoting
Sustainable Social Housing Policy.- Part III: Environmental Considerations
and Technological Innovations.
Chapter 4: The Environmental Aspects of
Social Housing and Its Welfare Analysis.
Chapter 5: Energy-Efficient Systems
for Low-Income Houses: Towards Achieving Sustainable Goal Number 7.- Part IV:
Economic Implications on SDG11 and Sustainable Social housing.
Chapter 6:
Right to Housing: Forced Sales Threatening the Security of Tenure in China
and South Africa.
Chapter 7: Economic Implications for Sustainable Housing:
Advancing Technology and SDG 11 in South Africa.- Part V: Case Studies and
Best Practices.
Chapter 8: Housing in a Modern Developing City: Driving the
Sustainable and Smart Future: A Case Study of Moscow, Russia.
Chapter 9:
Innovative Modular Houses: Promoting Sustainability with Customization in
Affordable Housing. Part VI: Conclusion and Future Directions.
Chapter 10:
Concluding Remarks and Future Avenues for Further Research.
Soraya Beukes is a human rights lawyer and social justice advocate with a LLD in Public Law from the UWC. She lectures at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and at the Dullah Omar Institute at UWC in socio economic rights. Her research career is enriched through her multiple Erasmus Mundus international research scholarships.
Marzieh Asaadi is a researcher with a PhD from Glasgow University specialising in international macroeconomics, with a focus on sustainable development and the knowledge-based economy.
Pfano Mashau is a Professor with a PhD in Management Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Management, IT and Governance. He lectures at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in Economics, Local Economic Development, International Business and Research Methodology.
Marina G. Shilina is a Professor with a PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics and Lomonosov. She holds a post-doctoral degree (D.Sc.) from St. Petersburg State University.
Nazreen Shaik-Peremanov is a human rights lawyer with a LLD from UNISA and has taught at universities spanning from Columbia to Fort Hare to Siberia. She is a visiting academic teaching international law at the Tyumen University.
