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Geography of Homelessness, Part 4: Examining Urban Homelessness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
While homelessness exists in all places, a majority of people experiencing homelessness are experiencing it in urban areas. Approximately 77 percent of the U.S.

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For the Few, Not the Many: Tracing the Residualist and Compensatory Nature of British Energy Support

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on extensive documentary analysis, this article traces the evolution of British energy policy support since World War II. It analyses shifts in policy design through two interpretive lenses: eligibility (residualist vs. universalist) and function (compensatory vs. preventive).
T. M. Croon   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

American Families, Punished for Poverty: The Criminalization of Homelessness in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Criminalization takes a toll, not only on adults, but also on the growing numbers of families, children and unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness.
Heather Maria Johnson, Maria Foscarinis
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When Policy Is the Hazard: Institutional Legitimacy and Climate Risk Attribution Among Farmers in Water Stressed California

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how farmers perceive and respond to climate policy risk in the context of drought and argues that understanding such responses is as important as understanding farmer reactions to the biophysical impacts of climate change.
M. Anne Visser   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Snapshot of Homelessness in the Bay Area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Regional Steering Committee (RSC) has focused for over two decades on estimating the number of homeless people in each county and the region. We have often discussed the challenge of finding data to back the trends that providers see every day in ...

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The future of epilepsy care in the United Kingdom: A roadmap for technology‐enabled transformation

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Epilepsy is recognized to be a significant cause of premature mortality, socio‐economic distress and poor quality of life in economically developed countries. Despite clear clinical guidelines, epilepsy care is marked by delayed diagnosis, fragmented management, high emergency admission rates, and pronounced health inequalities affecting rural
John R. Terry, Rohit Shankar
wiley   +1 more source

Finding the Fit: A Review of Three Intervention Models for Working with HIV/AIDS Impacted Substance Users who are Homeless [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
This report reflects research on three different models of services for people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) who are also low-income, substance users and are homeless or at risk of becoming ...
Amy Rynell, Maryann Mason
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

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