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Reducing Livability: How Sustainability Planning Threatens the American Dream [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This report posits that sustainability plans are infringing on people's rights and preventing them from securing the type of housing they ...
Randal O'Toole
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Tending to the Particular: Navigating Tensions Around Principles of Alternativity Through an Ethics of Care

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Alternative organizations must continuously address conflicts that emerge regarding diverging prioritizations and interpretations of autonomy, solidarity, and responsibility. We explore how tensions around alternative moral principles can be navigated through relational processes that attune to others' needs, emotions, and concerns.
Jonas Friedrich, Christina Lüthy
wiley   +1 more source

Coupling Coordination Between Livelihood Resilience and Ecological Livability for Farming Households Relocated from Mining-Under Villages in Eastern China

open access: yesLand
The application of livelihood resilience theory in mining-under village relocation areas, coupled with the assessment of the coupling coordination degree between farming household livelihood resilience and ecological livability, is crucial for advancing ...
Peijun Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative evaluation of livability indicators of the metropolitan Tehran’s districts

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2019
The present research intends to analyze the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of livability in Tehran. The research first explores livability from a theoretical perspective and then evaluates the present situation. Secondary data provided by
Reza Shabanzadeh Namini   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban livability across disciplinary and professional boundaries

open access: yesFrontiers of Architectural Research, 2016
This is an analytical study of the intensely debated concept of urban livability. The paper examines different literature or theoretical streams that contribute to the debate related to the notion of livable cities. It juxtaposes academic constructs from
Mohamad Kashef
doaj   +1 more source

Restorative Practices in Buffalo: Building and Rebuilding Community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Restorative practices/restorative justice (RP or RJ) is an alternative approach to our current punitive system of addressing conflict and crime. It is an age-old practice with origins in many indigenous cultures and has become increasingly popular in ...
Franco, Kathryn
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Microlevel Judgments of Organizational Legitimacy: How Validity Cues and Categorical Fit Shape Evaluators' Propriety Beliefs

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study advances research on organizational legitimacy by examining the microlevel mechanisms through which evaluators form propriety beliefs. Building on legitimacy‐as‐perception research, which posits that evaluators rely on validity cues to make judgments, we argue that individual evaluators draw on broader, more nuanced sets of ...
Julia Thaler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Urban Livability through Residential Preference—An International Survey

open access: yesData, 2019
Livability is a popular term for describing the satisfaction of residents with living in a city. The assessment of livability can be of high relevance for urban planning; however, existing assessment methods have various limitations, especially in terms ...
Anna Kovacs-Györi, Pablo Cabrera-Barona
doaj   +1 more source

Production Performance and Economic Appraisal of Broiler Farms in Anand District of Gujarat [PDF]

open access: yes
The production performance of different sizes of broiler farms has been studied by collecting data from 60 broiler producers of Anand district during 2005.
Shaikh, A.S., Zala, Y.C.
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Safe Routes to School Improves the Built Environment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This report focuses on case studies describing how ten states (California, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia) are awarding their SRTS federal funds to support improved infrastructure such
Robert Ping
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