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Localising the Sustainable Development Goals. A Place‐Based Analysis of Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Areas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are increasing calls for a place‐based approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals that show their territorial diversity at subnational level. Based on 33 indicators, covering 13 SDGs and aggregated in three sub‐indexes (economy, social and environment), this paper develops a Sustainable Development Index for Rural and Urban Areas
Lucas Olmedo, Paul Holloway, John Barimo, Mary O'Shaughnessy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resource redeployment as an entry advantage in resource‐poor settings

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Scarcity of productive factors poses a challenge for firms entering underdeveloped regions. We theorize that incumbent firms can overcome scarcity of skilled human capital in local labor markets by redeploying workers from existing units.
Jasmina Chauvin, Carlos Inoue, Christopher Poliquin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Funding, Facilities, and the Face of Homelessness: Heterogeneous Impacts of Federal Grants on Sheltered and Unsheltered Counts

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the causal impact of federal homeless‐assistance grants on reported homelessness and shelter capacity across 370 Continuums of Care in 2019. We exploit cross‐sectional variation in pre‐1940 housing shares, used in Community Development Block Grant formula allocations, as an instrument for combined CoC and Emergency ...
Luke Maddock, Anita Alves Pena
wiley   +1 more source

Land Tenure Security According to Land Registration Systems in Iraq

, 2015
Land Tenure Security (LTS) is a significant way in which the land users' rights are protected. It can be safeguarded under different forms that are included in various concepts, practices and influences which can be registered and protected officially.
Alossmi, Laith, V. Ahmed
openaire   +2 more sources

Lever L’insécurité Foncière: Une Des Premières Clefs Du Développement?

African Studies Quarterly, 1999
This combination of three short papers discusses afforestation, land tenure, and environmnetal legislation in Madagascar. The second piece on tenure insecurity argues that ultimately the state has been poor at formal land tenure immatriculation ...
Alain Bertrand
doaj  

Dynamic Modelling of Critical Infrastructures for Improved Disaster Habitation Recovery

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Natural disasters damage infrastructure systems that support housing habitability, leading to population displacement. Recovery efforts speed up infrastructure capacity restoration and, thereby, rehabitation by displaced residents. Current recovery policy analysis methods focus on individual infrastructure systems or overall community recovery
Benjamin C. Ozumba, David N. Ford
wiley   +1 more source

Rebound Effects of Digital Textile Microfactories in Fashion, a System Dynamics Study of CO2 Emissions

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fashion industry's high resource use and globalised supply chains generate environmental degradation through overproduction, waste and pollution. Digital Textile Microfactories (DTMFs) are promoted as a more sustainable alternative because they enable fast, digitalised and often localised production, but lower costs and a greener image may
Juan Esteban Martinez‐Jaramillo, Luis Stütz, Meike Tilebein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Many Buds Blooming”: Lived Experience and Insights From Native American Graduate Students

New Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native American graduate students have a unique experience in higher education from their peers and from Native undergraduate students. This article highlights the challenges and triumphs of 12 Native American graduate students, focusing on their unique cultural perspectives and systemic obstacles they encounter in graduate education.
Cori Bazemore‐James, Kelly Collins, Christy Anderson, Thomas J. Barbano, Kelly Berry, Mark Bolin, Charisse Bordeaux, Janelle Cronin, Christina Johnson, Kelley McCall, Deante’ Moore, Jaidyn Probst, Lindsey Willow Smith, Angela Teeple   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Renegotiating customary tenure reform – Land governance reform and tenure security in Uganda

Land Use Policy, 2014
In academic and policy debates on how to effectively secure land tenure, an uncompromising belief inthe need to formalize and title landownership has increasingly given way to an acknowledgement of thecontributions non-state, ‘customary’ or otherwise local institutions may make in securing tenure.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Price Gap in Agriculture‐Based Greenhouse Gas Offset Markets

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, there is a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas net emissions (GHGNE). For economic well‐being, it is important to identify low‐cost means of net emission offsets. Agriculture and forestry have received considerable attention as a means of supplying emissions offsets, as they contribute nearly 20% of global emissions.
Jingyi W. Liu, Bruce A. McCarl, Chengcheng J. Fei   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source