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Demographic Research, 2010 This study investigates the disproportionate impact of mortality among United States troops in Iraq on rural communities. We advance scholarly research and popular accounts that suggest a non-metropolitan disadvantage by disaggregating the risk of ...
Katherine Curtis, Collin Payne
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Barriers to English Language Learners in the Chicago Metropolitan Area [PDF]
, 2001 Immigrants from all over the world are continuing to move to Illinois in large numbers. As they settle into an increasingly diverse range of communities within metropolitan Chicago, this expansion of ports of entry creates new challenges for the state ...
Jody Raphael, Lise McKean, Melissa Ford
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the role of social capital in designing and implementing more effective governance strategies to improve the state of the Tagus River's significantly deteriorated middle reach (Spain). We employed social network analysis (SNA) to evaluate the bonding, bridging and linking social capital and the quality of stakeholder ...
Leticia Blázquez +2 more
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The differential impact of mortality of American troops in the Iraq War: The non-metropolitan dimension [PDF]
This study investigates the disproportionate impact of mortality among United States troops in Iraq on rural communities. We advance scholarly research and popular accounts that suggest a non-metropolitan disadvantage by disaggregating the risk of ...
Collin Payne, Katherine Curtis
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Endangered by Sprawl: How Runaway Development Threatens America's Wildlife [PDF]
, 2005 Estimates the growth of land consumption in metropolitan areas over the next 25 years, investigates locally implemented strategies to protect natural lands from overdevelopment, and offers "smart growth" as an option for reducing suburban ...
Bruce Stein +4 more
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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 +3 more
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Economic Development Benefits of Preschool Expansion in Kalamazoo County [PDF]
This paper examines the effects of preschool expansion in Kalamazoo County on the county’s economic development. Effects on the county’s economic development are defined as effects on the employment and earnings of county residents. The estimated effects
Timothy J. Bartik
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Atlanta\u27s Thriving Air Transportation Industry: Employment and Wages, 1990-2010 [PDF]
, 2012 Air transportation is a popular form of travel in the United States and a thriving industry in the Atlanta metropolitan area, primarily Fulton County. Fulton County’s employment concentration for air transportation is higher than any other industry, and ...
Dotson, Matthew
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Infrastructure‐led development in rapidly urbanizing economies often generates accessibility gains that fail to translate into balanced urban outcomes, particularly when local fiscal institutions redirect those gains toward revenue‐generating land uses. Filling this gap, especially in fiscally constrained county‐level cities where land finance
Ming Xie, Xiaoxiao Liao, Zhenlin Xie
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Discover Applied SciencesThis study explores how intercity rail transit reshapes spatial structures, which underpins the optimization of regional resource allocation. Taking 54 county-level units in the Guanzhong region as research subjects, we constructed a dual-model ...
Chunjie Cai, Pei Zhang
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