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Using Response Surface Methodology for Economic and Environmental Trade-offs at the Farm Level
Air, Soil and Water Research, 2013 United States farmers typically spend over $10 billion annually on commercial fertilizer. Chemical inputs such as nitrogen (N) are essential for maintaining crop yields; however, farmers often apply excessive N inputs as an insurance policy.
James C. Ascough +2 more
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Community assembly on inland cliffs is context‐dependent
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Under harsh environmental conditions, community assembly processes are expected to drive pronounced functional convergence, with communities dominated by stress‐tolerant species.
Thomas Deola +9 more
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Economics in Times of Crisis. In Search of a New Paradigm [PDF]
, 2014 JEL Codes: B41, B50The relationship between the development of economics and economic performance is not reducible to any set of simple rules. Among the historians of economic thought there is even a handful of those who perceive the progress in ...
Dzionek-Kozłowska, Joanna
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Megatrends and Sustainable Development
Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2013 The last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the third millennium saw the significant acceleration of globalization processes, which has fundamentally changed and is still changing the world order and the face of the Earth.
Konrad Prandecki +3 more
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Effect of Global Energy Price Shocks on Dynamics of World Agricultural and Food Prices
AgriculturePrices and quantities in agricultural commodity and food product markets are subject to constant changes due to evolving supply and demand conditions. Big and sudden shifts in supply or demand may lead to price movements that bring negative consequences ...
Szczepan Figiel +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the rise of impact investment in social housing in an age of entrenched financialization and enduring public underinvestment through the case of philanthropic investors in Southern Ontario, Canada. Social finance scholarship has highlighted tensions between financial and social returns, while overlooking the role of place
Yinnon Geva, Matti Siemiatycki
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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