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The City as an Anti‐Growth Machine

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Logan and Molotch's “urban growth machine” remains foundational in urban theory, describing how coalitions of landowners, developers, and politicians promote urban growth to raise land values. This paper argues that under financialized capitalism, the dynamics have inverted: asset appreciation now outweighs productive investment, and urban ...
Petter Törnberg
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Regional Convergence and R&D Investment: Applied investigation in Portugal [PDF]

, 2014
O investimento em I&D apresenta-se na bibliografia como um elemento potenciador de crescimento económico e determinante na posição competitiva das regiões, podendo vir a contribuir, para a convergência económica regional.
Guerreiro, António, Guerreiro, Gertrudes   +1 more
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Accelerating Just Energy Transitions in Brazil: Pathways for Social Development

Latin American Policy, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This critical article analyzes energy poverty in Brazil from the theoretical perspective of distributive justice, proposing the implementation of a new social regulation called Contribution to Social Development. The goal is to support the process of a just energy transition leading to a broader debate on energy planning and social issues ...
Marcio Giannini Pereira, Harriet Thomson, Neilton Fidelis da Silva, Maria Luiza de M. Galvão, Dannyelle de Souza Nunes Vasconcelos, Jamila Lorena de Freitas Pereira Brasil   +5 more
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Atuação do BNDES e disparidades regionais: evidências da indústria de transformação entre 2000-2018

Geosul, 2020
Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a dinâmica territorial de desembolso do BNDES sobre a indústria de transformação, a partir dos padrões setoriais de concorrência, regiões e unidades federativas, no período de 2000 a 2018 no Brasil.
Raphael de Oliveira Silva, Mabel Diz Marques, Henrique Tomé da Costa Mata   +2 more
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Roots of resilience: Assessing child and adolescent nature connectivity in the Mediterranean Region of Murcia (Spain)

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 378-391, February 2026.
Abstract Children today spend less time outdoors than previous generations, with potential consequences for health, learning and pro‐environmental attitudes. We assessed children's connection with and exposure to nature in a Mediterranean setting using the Nature Connection and Experience Index (NCEI), a composite measure that integrates an affective ...
Juan Antonio Ortega‐García, Francisco Díaz‐Martínez, Laura Teresa Cabrera‐Rivera, Carmen Alicia Cánovas‐Conesa, Elena Codina, Rebeca Ramis, Luz Claudio   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multifaceted contributions : health workers and smallpox eradication in India [PDF]

, 2008
Smallpox eradication in South Asia was a result of the efforts of many grades of health-workers. Working from within the confines of international organisations and government structures, the role of the field officials, who were of various nationalities
Banerji D., Basu RN, Bhattacharya S, Bhattacharya S., Bhore J., Bonne W., Bounsulo D., Brilliant L., Chisholm B., Dutta M., Fenner F, Gelfand Henry, Grasset N, Grasset N, Greenough P., Henderson D.A., Henderson D.A., Jezek Z., Maltseva Nelya, Naraindas H., Padture MA, Payne AAM, Peabody JW, Raksa K, Saenz, Sanjoy Bhattacharya   +25 more
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The Limits of Depoliticized Water–Energy Diplomacy: Insights From the UAE–Israel–Jordan Water‐for‐Energy Deal

World Water Policy, Volume 12, Issue 1, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the rise and collapse of the 2021 United Arab Emirates (UAE)–Israel–Jordan Water‐for‐Energy Deal, a landmark initiative that sought to exchange Jordanian solar energy for Israeli desalinated water. Presented as a breakthrough in regional cooperation and environmental peacebuilding, the agreement was brokered under the ...
Majed Abu‐Zreig, Hussam Hussein
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Regional Income Distribution in Portugal [PDF]

, 2012
The structural evolution of the European economy has shown a real convergence between countries and divergence between regions (Mateus et al., 2000), so the economic and social cohesion, namely the approach of the various territories ...
Guerreiro, Gertrudes
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Evidence Use at the Regional Health Agency of Ile‐de‐France: Analysis of Practices, Obstacles, and Needs

World Medical &Health Policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 713-727, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Professionals and decision‐makers in regional or local administrations often face time and resource constraints that hinder evidence‐based decision‐making. This article examines the practices, obstacles, and needs relating to evidence use within the Regional Health Agency of Ile‐de‐France, a decentralized agency of the French Ministry of ...
Tony Zitti, Lola Traverson, Amandine Fillol, Andrainolo Ravalihasy, Christian Dagenais, Aurélie Hot, Valéry Ridde   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interações entre componentes regionais do sistema bancário nacional

GEOUSP: Espaço e Tempo, 2017
Autores pós-keynesianos esperavam que a atividade bancária agravasse a concentração regional no Brasil. Minha hipótese é que “a organização do espaço geoeconômico brasileiro influencia o crédito”, em vez de pressupor que “as finanças vêm influenciando a ...
Fernando Nogueira Costa
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