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Cost–benefit analysis of landfill emergency securing: Two applications in Southern Italy

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The systematic use of landfills as a method of waste disposal is leaving a heavy legacy in terms of environmental pollution, especially in the case of illegal or non‐compliant disposal sites. When no environmental precaution is adopted, harmful substances' release imposes relevant health risk to the surrounding population.
Nicola Comincioli, Ilenia Gaia Romani, Sergio Vergalli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Advanced Technologies for Environmental Valuation in Legacy Mining Sites: The Role of Digital Twins at Lavrion Technological and Cultural Park. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Maté-González MÁ, Sáez Blázquez C, Camargo Vargas SA, Peral Fernández F, Herranz Herranz D, González González E, Protonotarios V, González-Aguilera D.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Micro- and nanoscale effects in biological and bioinspired materials and surfaces. [PDF]

Beilstein J Nanotechnol
Büscher TH, Ferreira RG, Rebora M, Gorb SN.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Socioeconomic Adaptation Through Ethnic Business: Chinese Migrant Ethnoburb Formation in Nishi‐Kawaguchi, Japan

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Nishi‐Kawaguchi Chinatown, a Chinese ethnic enclave in suburban Tokyo, functions as a ‘socioeconomic emergency elevator’ for Chinese migrants. The enclave serves a dual purpose: offering refuge from social exclusion and facilitating upward socioeconomic mobility.
Hiroya Takamatsu
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural distortion risk and tourist loyalty at silk road heritage: The mediating roles of perceived value and satisfaction. [PDF]

PLoS One
Wu K, Su L, Zhang S, Yang S, Xing A, Zhou J.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
wiley   +1 more source

To Be Bicultural Is to Be Friends? Associating Early Adolescents' Cultural Identities and Behaviors With Friendship Networks in Minority-Only Schools. [PDF]

J Community Psychol
Hillekens J, Stark TH, Phalet K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This study aims to better understand activism in the Romanian post‐socialist society during a struggle to preserve the socialist industrial heritage of Carbochim, in Cluj‐Napoca, Romania. From an urban activist perspective, we present a failed heritagisation process because of commercial‐oriented real estate development, but that enables
Oana‐Ramona Ilovan, Adriana Măgeruşan, Paul Mutică, Smaranda Todoran   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thing-Human-Emotion-Beauty model for multi-dimensional perception of cultural relics' values from the design perspective. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Niu X, Ye J, Yu S, Chen L.
europepmc   +1 more source