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NOT ALL GLITTERS IN THE BLACK GOLD: UNCERTAINTIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS OF THE BRAZILIAN PRE-SALT [PDF]
Ambiente & Sociedade, 2017 Technologies used for offshore oil exploration, in increasingly remote and extreme environments, potentiate new environmental threats in contemporary societies.
JOSÉ EDUARDO VIGLIO +2 more
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Back and forward to the future: an explorative study of public responses to urban groundwater contamination [PDF]
, 2013 The objective of this case study is to explore responses by residents confronted with groundwater contamination in their community. Using a mail-survey design, self-administered questionnaires were collected (N = 170) that included questions about risk ...
Vandermoere, Frédéric +1 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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VertigOThis special issue is composed of contributions from a seminar on the greening of agriculture and food and offers a collective assessment of the construction of this subject by environmental sociology.
Marie Jacqué, Claire Lamine
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INCOME INEQUALITY AND CARBON EMISSIONS IN POST-SOVIET NATIONS, 1992–2009
Ekonomika, 2018 We assess the relationship between national-level income inequality and carbon dioxide emissions for a sample of eleven post-Soviet nations during the 1992 to 2009 period.
Andrew Jorgenson +2 more
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The Sociology of Global Warming: A Scientometric Look
Studia Humana, 2021 The theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) enjoys considerable consensus among experts. It is widely recognized that global industrialization is producing an increase in the planet’s temperatures and causing environmental disasters.
Campa Riccardo
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Ski areas, weather and climate: Time series models for New England case studies [PDF]
, 2007 Wintertime warming trends experienced in recent decades, and predicted to increase in the future, present serious challenges for ski areas and whole regions that depend on winter tourism. Most research on this topic examines past or future climate-change
Brown, Cliff +2 more
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Growth of Omnichannel Grocery Retailing and Food Prices
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of the growth of omnichannel grocery retailing on food prices. We first develop a conceptual model of consumer choice and retailer pricing that allows us to evaluate changes in equilibrium prices, quantities, and profits with online channel growth and alternative pricing strategies.
Xiangwen Kong +2 more
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Facilitators and barriers to neighborhood social integration
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of community and belonging. Yet, most existing research centers on fostering close personal relationships within family and friend networks.
Joelle Fuchs +6 more
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TRANSFORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN MOSCOW: SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSION
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2016 The paper assesses transformation of environmental situation in Moscow and citizens’ attitude toward those changes. It analyzes a mass poll of 800 Moscovites conducted in June–July 2015.
Viktoria R. Bityukova +3 more
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