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Urban Water Demand: Income and Price Elasticities

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use bimonthly water consumption data from 580,000 households in the metropolitan region of Western Australia over the period 2015–2020 to analyse urban residential water demand. A generalised two‐stage least squares (G2SLS) approach is used to estimate water consumption as a function of price, household income, weather variables, property ...
Alemken Jegnie, Atakelty Hailu, Md Sayed Iftekhar, James Fogarty   +3 more
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VOC concentrations in houses in Japan: correlations with housing characteristics and types of ventilation

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can cause health problems for residents and are one of the causes of sick building syndrome. Therefore, this study measured VOCs in 116 houses in the winter and 66 in the summer in Japan, including detached and apartment
Sangin Park, Naoki Kagi, Wataru Umishio, Kenichi Hasegawa, Teruaki Mitamura, Jo Tamura   +5 more
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The Politics of Changes in Housing Supply and Tenure: Illustrations from Australia and the Netherlands

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost regardless of the welfare system and market context, the changing housing landscapes in Western countries show a number of similar trends. Households are confronted with decreasing access to homeownership and social renting, and increased reliance on private renting in combination with growing housing shortages and housing affordability
Marietta Haffner, Kath Hulse
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Housing Price Bubbles and their Determinants in the Czech Republic and its Regions [PDF]

This working paper, based on an empirical analysis, discusses factors affecting property prices and tries to identify periods of property price overvaluation by three approaches: using simple ratios related to house prices (price-to-income and price-to ...
Lubos Komarek, Michal Hlavacek
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Housing as the Fifth Pillar of the Welfare State: Why Spain Needs Structural Reform

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Spain's ongoing housing crisis reflects the cumulative effects of fragmented governance, underinvestment and financialisation. Despite recent reforms, structural challenges persist, threatening affordability and social inclusion. This article diagnoses the roots of Spain's housing failures, explores pathways for systemic reform and argues that
Montserrat Pareja‐Eastaway
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Tenement House Conditions in Five Rhode Island Cities [PDF]

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George H. Webb, Commissioner. Carol Aronovici, Special Agent. Rhode Island Bureau of Industrial Statistics. Part I of the Annual Report for 1910. A report commissioned by the Rhode Island Bureau of Industrial Statistics conducted in cooperation with ...
Aronovici, Carol, Webb, George H.
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Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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