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Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Area to be Avoided (ATBA) Education and Monitoring Program [PDF]
, 2000 The National Marine Sanctuaries Act (16 U.S.C. 1431, as amended) gives the Secretary of Commerce the authority to designate discrete areas of the marine environment as National Marine Sanctuaries and provides the authority to promulgate regulations to ...
Galasso, George
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Climate Change and (Mal)Adaptation in Tourism‐Intensive Alpine Regions
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Tourism, especially in winter, accounts for a large share of economic income in Alpine regions. At the same time, these regions are more severely affected by climate change, leading to shorter winter seasons and reduced snow cover. This presents a pressing issue for areas reliant on income from winter tourism through activities such as skiing.
Valentina Ausserladscheider
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, 2005 As host of the Olympic Games, China seeks to increase national economic and socialdevelopment and "display to the world a new image of China", and presents the Games as an opportunity to foster democracy, improve human rights and integrate China with the
Amy Tai, Elisabeth Wickeri, Ellen Payne
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Do Former Elite Athletes Live Longer? New Evidence From German Olympic Athletes and a First Model Description [PDF]
, 2020 Lutz Thieme, Michael Fröhlich
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Olympic participation and performance since 1896 [PDF]
We analyze the decision to participate and Olympic performance at the country level. We use an unbalanced panel of 118 countries over 24 editions of the Olympic Summer Games.
Kuper, Gerard, Sterken, Elmer
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Mechanism of formation of competitiveness of non-Olympic sports
Слобожанський науково-спортивний вісник, 2019 The article analyzes the competitiveness of non-Olympic sports in Kharkiv. A mechanism for the formation of competitiveness non-Olympic sports are proposed. Purpose: develop a mechanism for the formation of competitiveness of non-Olympic sports. Material
Nataliiya Sereda
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Similarity and attraction effects in episodic memory judgments [PDF]
In the decision-making literature, it is known that preferences between two options can be influenced in different ways by the introduction of a third option.
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