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ABSTRACT Objectives This study explores how perceived safety influences sleep quality among Wixárika individuals in Mexico. We compared the sleep quality of those living in a rural town in northern Jalisco with those living in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (GMA).
Leela McKinnon +7 more
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Urban Waters, Unseen: The Hydrology of Informal Settlements Must Not Be Ignored
Abstract Informal settlements—home to more than 1 billion people worldwide—remain largely invisible in urban hydrological science. Despite their density, structural complexity, and distinctive water pathways, these neighborhoods are routinely omitted from flood models, drainage assessments, and water‐resource analyses due to data gaps and limitations ...
Augusto Getirana
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Expansión urbana en el municipio de Jamundí, camino al modelo de ciudad difusa y fragmentada. [PDF]
Está investigación se desarrolló, desde el enfoque de la geografía crítica y del desarrollo sostenible, con el objetivo analizar los planes parciales y los beneficios de la ciudad compacta, en el marco del tratamiento urbanístico de redesarrollo que le ...
Lopez Restrepo, Daniela
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O texto trata das principais discussões levantadas no XII Simpósio Nacional de Geografia Urbana (SIMPURB) ocorrido ano passado. Dispõe sobre o meio frutífero propiciado no encontro para o avanço teórico-prático da problemática urbana e as estratégias de ...
Eudes André Leopoldo de Souza
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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ABSTRACT Climate disasters are currently changing territory around the world by showing large inequalities that exist in infrastructure systems, governance arrangements, and development pathways. In many cases, climate risk response strategies like managed retreat have been framed as practical approaches to respond to increasing climate disasters ...
Chick Edmond
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A URBANIZAÇÃO CRÍTICA NA METRÓPOLE DE SÃO PAULO A PARTIR DE FUNDAMENTOS DA GEOGRAFIA URBANA
As metamorfoses de concepções da geografia urbana havíam assumido o tom da agitação dos conteúdos da realidade urbana. Este contexto nos aproxima de uma atualização da bibliografia geográfica, sem simplificações extremas, nem o desdenhar de todas as suas
Amélia Luisa Damiani
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Trade and Domestic Distortions: The Case of Informality
We examine the effects of international trade in the presence of a set of domestic distortions giving rise to informality, a prevalent phenomenon in developing countries. In our quantitative model, the informal sector arises from burdensome taxes and regulations that are imperfectly enforced by the government.
Rafael Dix‐Carneiro +3 more
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Sustentabilidad urbana y resiliencia social: retos y oportunidades para la geografía y la ordenación territorial [PDF]
En esta conferencia se describe la relación entre geografía y sustentabilidad urbana enfocando conceptos asociados a la geografía radical y el desarrollo ambiental, la ordenación territorial y la resiliencia social, para destacar las posibilidades que ...
Mendo-Gutiérrez, Alejandro
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Edward W. Soja. Seeking Spatial Justice
La urbanización ha tomado un curso dramático a nivel mundial durante los últimos veinte años. El crecimiento demográfico, el acelerado cambio tecnológico, los amplios flujos migratorios desde América Latina, Asia y África, hacia Europa y Estados Unidos ...
Steven Navarrete Cardona
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