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Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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Acesso e uso da água em áreas urbanas – método Delphi na elaboração de uma matriz de componentes.
A água doce, recurso natural de extrema importância para vida, é um bem escasso devido à irregularidade da sua distribuição espacial e às dificuldades de acesso da população ao recurso.
Nilton Ricardo de Oliveira Silva +4 more
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Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Introducción: El objetivo fue describir la geografía del suicidio y su asociación con los niveles socioeconómico y de fragmentación social en la ciudad de Montevideo, Uruguay.
Carlos Leveau +2 more
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Abstract Africa is recognized as the final frontier for urbanization and capitalism. Following a long wave of massive loans to promote state‐led developments, small private foreign and local developers are transforming the urban landscape on the outskirts of Luanda, forging partnerships with Angola's national and local governments and developing an ...
Higor Carvalho
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Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato +2 more
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La dinámica urbana en España: evolución y tipología
El objetivo de este trabajo es el análisis de la evolución de la población durante los últimos cuarenta años (1970-2011) de las 64 principales áreas urbanas españolas con el objetivo de ela- borar una tipología de áreas urbanas en función del crecimiento
Fernando Gil Alonso +1 more
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ABSTRACT Operating cash flows are a critical input to valuation activities. Research and practice indicate that the most common method of presenting operating cash flows, the indirect method, is viewed as overly complex. We experimentally examine whether two theoretically motivated factors represent shortcomings of the indirect method: (1) inadequate ...
Richard Crandall +2 more
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Habitat Features, Coyotes, and Humans Drive Diel Activity Variation Among Sympatric Mammals
We found that multiple mammal species show considerable variation in diel activity in response to several factors, with biotic variables (habitat features and the presence of coyotes Canis latrans) having the strongest overall effects. Our results have important implications for trophic dynamics. Future studies will need to account for these underlying
Nathan J. Proudman, Maximilian L. Allen
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