ABSTRACT Population decline and aging pose growing challenges to economic vitality and labor market sustainability, particularly in remote regions. In Japan, national park‐related municipalities increasingly rely on tourism as a strategy for regional revitalization, yet attracting young residents to participate in the local tourism workforce remains a ...
Huixin Wang, Katsunori Furuya
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Family Migration: A Vehicle of Child Morbidity in the Informal Settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya? [PDF]
Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural
Konseiga, Adama
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Climate-induced vulnerability and health outcomes in urban Bangladesh: the mediating role of psychological stress. [PDF]
Xunda Y +4 more
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Tracking SDG‐7 in China, India, and Japan
ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of clean energy consumption on environmental quality, supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, which aims to ensure access to clean, affordable energy for all. The Auto‐Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model is used for Japan, and the Fourier ARDL for China and India, followed by a Granger ...
Arvind Goswami +3 more
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Financial protection failure among urban poor populations in Karachi, Pakistan: a cross-sectional household survey of catastrophic health expenditure prevalence, determinants and insurance effectiveness. [PDF]
Khan A +4 more
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ABSTRACT Declining natural resources, rising production costs, and diminishing returns from input‐intensive practices threaten the sustainability of smallholder rice systems in Bangladesh. Using a primal system approach and survey data from 1869 rice‐producing households, this study evaluates technical and allocative inefficiency across major agro ...
Limon Deb +3 more
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Cohort Profile: Kinship, nuptiality and child well-being in Africa-the JAMO study. [PDF]
Madhavan S +10 more
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ABSTRACT The adoption of geospatial and digital technologies, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modelling (BIM), Digital Twins, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), is increasingly recognised as key enablers of sustainable development.
Monica C. M. Parlato, Andrea Pezzuolo
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Environmental Implications of Peri-urban Sprawl and the Urbanization of Secondary Cities in Latin America [PDF]
This paper examines the environmental and social implications of peri-urban growth in small to medium sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean and proposes approaches to address this challenge.
Haroldo da Gama Torres
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Network science reveals the structure and lasting impact of the Roman road system. [PDF]
Pažout A +9 more
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