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Geography and Development [PDF]
Journal of Economic Geography, 2000 The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, including the coexistence of economic development and underdevelopment. High-income regions are almost entirely concentrated in a few temperate zones, half of the world's GDP is produced by 15 percent of the world's population, and ...
Henderson, J. Vernon +2 more
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Biodiversity and Geography [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Abstract We combine a new economic geography model of agglomeration and dispersion of economic activity with an ecological–economic model of species diversity to examine optimal policies of biodiversity conservation in a two-region world. Species diversity is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact.
Edward B. Barbier, Michael Rauscher
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 We study the residential choice of siblings who are altruistic towards their parents. The firstborn child's location choice influences the behavior of the second-born child and can shift some of the burden of providing care for the parents from one child to the other.
Julio R. Robledo +5 more
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Student Learning Behaviour and Social Interaction in The Time of The Covid-19 Pandemic in Geographic Education Department and S1 IPS Education Study Program [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 The implementation of online learning is one of the learning models carried out during the pandemic, because the principle of educational policy during the Covid-19 pandemic is to prioritize the health and safety of students, educators, education staff ...
Sumilat Grystin Dj.
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The Geography of Medicare [PDF]
Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 1999 There is a great deal of geographic variation in Medicare spending. For example, while the average Medicare cost per beneficiary was around $5200 in 1996, Medicare spending, adjusted for differences in regional prices and demographic composition, was about $8000 per person in Miami, but only $3500 in Minneapolis. In this paper, we explore the source of
David M. Cutler, Louise Sheiner
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Future geographies and geography education [PDF]
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015 Futute geography education is discussed from different perspectives: the discipline, the student and the ...
Tine Béneker, J.A. van der Schee
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The Island Name Krk, Croatia, in its Mediterranean and European Context [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2020 Krk is one of the two largest islands in the Adriatic archipelago of Croatia, along with Cres. Its name has been discussed most recently by Dubravka Ivšić Majić (Voprosy Onomastiki 16.1, 2019) in the context of an analysis of the survival of the pre ...
Richard Coates
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021 Background The American Heart Association and Healthy People 2020 established objectives to reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke death rates by 20% by the year 2020, with 2007 as the baseline year.
Adam S. Vaughan +4 more
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Philosophy and religion, two foundations of social thought of the Ikhwan al-Safa society [PDF]
Kom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2016 In the X century, when numerous representatives of scientific and cultural life of Muslims appeared, a secret philosophical-political group Ikhwan al-Safa was formed whose members tried to ideologically oppose the central caliphate leading political set.
Halilović Muamer
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Alla ricerca di un metodo: Open Space Technology
Geography Notebooks, 2021 Il confronto da cui hanno preso forma alcune delle riflessioni presentate in questo numero è stato promosso attraverso uno strumento di lavoro partecipativo: l’Open Space Technology 2. Si tratta di un metodo d’interazione che scommette sulla spontaneità,
Lorena Rocca, Martino Mocchi
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