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Abstract How hot is too hot for people? This is a question that human thermal physiologists are asked often by a variety of knowledge users across the public and private sectors, who have grown aware of the negative impact of global warming on people's health and quality of life.
Davide Filingeri, Nuno Koch Esteves
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Dry Bean Cocoa Production in Papua New Guinea: Do IPDM Inputs Pay Off?
ABSTRACT Cocoa is Papua New Guineaʼs (PNG) third‐largest agricultural export, supporting about two million smallholder farmers. Despite integrated pest and disease management (IPDM) systems to improve yields, adoption remains low. We surveyed two cocoa‐growing households—one near Balima (Madang Province) and the other near Manetai (Bougainville)—and ...
Tom Swan +4 more
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ABSTRACT The issue of gender (in)equality occupies an important place in sociological research, but there is still a lack of empirical studies that focus on rural areas. Based on the research approach of qualitatively guided sequential mixed‐methods research design (QUAL → quan), this study analysed 53 semi‐structured in‐depth interviews conducted with
Vladimir Ivanović +2 more
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Abstract This paper examines the intensified conflict over sexualities education curricula brought about by anti‐(trans)gender and anti‐Muslim policy and political discourse transnationally. Backlash against inclusive sexualities education has taken shape across several policy territories, driven in part by de‐democratising right‐wing populist ...
James Sutton +2 more
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Housing Conditions, Neighbourhood Area and Life Satisfaction in Older Age
ABSTRACT This study contributes to the literature on environmental influences on individual life satisfaction in older age, by offering novel empirical evidence from Italy, a country marked by rapid population ageing, a difficult homeownership regime and pronounced territorial inequalities.
Elena Pirani +3 more
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Abstract This paper frames migrant makeshift camps as mobility infrastructures, bridging scholarship on informal dwellings and migration infrastructures with the case of Bihać, a transit city on the Bosnia–Croatia border. The central idea is that grassroots makeshift camps assembled in abandoned buildings or tents play a key infrastructural role in ...
Martino Zibetti (He/Him)
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Sustainability versus development: Mudanya's war of survival as a liveable city [PDF]
Sustainable development assumes that the natural and historical resources of a city which constitute to its local characteristics, will not yield to urban and regional pressures.
Dundar, Ozlem +2 more
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Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
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Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]
The purpose of this article is to provide an overall image of what a liveable city is. Starting from the theoretical aspects presented in the first part of this work, and ending up with the practical ones, an attempt was made to provide an answer to the ...
Daniela Antonescu
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'It'll get worse before it gets better': Local experiences of living in a regeneration area [PDF]
The negative consequences of living in deprived neighbourhoods for residents’ quality of life are well documented. Area-based regeneration initiatives are invariably concerned with improving local quality of life over the long term.
Braidford, Paul +4 more
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