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Espace populations sociétés, 2018 Since most of researches on economic metropolization have until then concentrated on "high added value" workers on both sides of the border, little place is left neither for analysis of the less valued categories in the process of metropolization, nor ...
Jianyu Chen +2 more
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Land use and food security in 2050 – the agrimonde-terra scenarios analysis in Guadeloupe [PDF]
, 2016 Land use and global food security are major issues because of uncertainties about the planet's capacity to feed a growing population (set to reach 9.7 billion in 2050) in a context of climate change and ongoing debates regarding land use change ...
De Lattre-Gasquet, Marie +2 more
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Land use and food security in 2050: a narrow road [PDF]
, 2018 After a first foresight study on "World food security in 2050" (Agrimonde), CIRAD and INRA have turned their attention to a new foresight exercise on 'Land use and food security in 2050' (Agrimonde-Terra).
De Lattre-Gasquet, Marie (ed.) +2 more
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Rural Sociology, Volume 90, Issue 1, Page 46-63, March 2025.Abstract The dynamics of contemporary rural depopulation have been explained and addressed mainly as a result of structural transformations brought about by economic globalization. The influence of cultural/relational aspects has been less present in the scientific literature, where much of the analysis has been concerned with questions such as the ...
Germán Jaraíz‐Arroyo +2 more
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Sustainability and change in the institutionalized commute in Belgium: exploring regional differences [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines regional differences in commute-energy performance in Belgium, and explores their relationships with spatial characteristics such as the distribution of population and housing, the metropolitan influence of the Brussels agglomeration,
Boussauw, Kobe +5 more
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Governance, Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract This paper adds to the literature on urban diplomacy by focusing on the role of smaller cities with an active international engagement in migration matters. What are the motives driving the involvement of these “ordinary” cities in international groupings?
Amandine Desille, Thomas Lacroix
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Water Resources Research, Volume 60, Issue 8, August 2024.Abstract Evapotranspiration (ET) plays a critical role in water and energy budgets at regional to global scales. ET is composed of direct evaporation (E) and plant transpiration (T) where the latter is regulated via stomatal conductance (gsc), which depends on a multitude of plant physiological processes and hydrometeorological forcings.
Pushpendra Raghav +2 more
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Medium-Sized Cities and the Dynamics of Creative Services [PDF]
This paper examines the development of “creative” services (research, information, art etc.), located in medium-sized areas. Insofar as urban dynamics lead to extend the advanced services outside metropolises, particular attention is given to issues ...
Claude LACOUR (GREThA) +1 more
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, 2013 Common algorithms for computationally simulating Langevin dynamics must discretize the stochastic differential equations of motion. These resulting finite time step integrators necessarily have several practical issues in common: Microscopic ...
Daan Frenkel +5 more
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Dangerous demographics? The effect of urbanisation and metropolisation on African Civil wars, 1961–2010 [PDF]
, 2015 Whether urbanisation promotes or inhibits the risk of civil war is disputed: while case studies usually support the former, quantitative investigations have found either the latter or no significant correlation at all.
Schulz, Nicolai
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