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How hot is too hot for people? A review of empirical models of perceptual, physiological and functional limits of human heat tolerance

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Dry Bean Cocoa Production in Papua New Guinea: Do IPDM Inputs Pay Off?

open access: yesAsia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 13, Issue 2, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

‘You Had to Obey Your Husband; He Worked, You Raised the Children. Today, Things Have Changed’: A Mixed Methods Study on Gender Equality in Rural Croatia

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 2, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

School spaces of dissensus: Protecting sexualities education in anti‐gender, anti‐Muslim and de‐democratising times

open access: yesThe Curriculum Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 107-123, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Housing Conditions, Neighbourhood Area and Life Satisfaction in Older Age

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Springboards Before the Fence: Urban Makeshift Camps as Mobility Infrastructures on the Bosnia–Croatia Border

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
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)
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability versus development: Mudanya's war of survival as a liveable city [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
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

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Liveable City from an Economic Perspective [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Urban and Landscape Planning, 2017
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
doaj  

'It'll get worse before it gets better': Local experiences of living in a regeneration area [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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
core  

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