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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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The presence of extreme feather peckers in groups of laying hens
Animal, 2017 Feather pecking is a serious economic and welfare problem in laying hens. Feather damage occurs mainly through severe feather pecking (SFP). Selection experiments have proved that this behavior is heritable and lines have been divergently selected for ...
H.-P. Piepho +5 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Oregon's wave of data center and semiconductor projects shows how cloud capitalism reorganizes resource systems and territorial governance. Examining Amazon, Google, and Intel, the article traces how fiscal incentives, utility programs, and land‐use instruments are recalibrated to secure hyperscale loads.
Justin Kollar
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FACTOR THAT INFLUENCING CAPITAL EXPENDITURE: PERSPECTIVE PECKING ORDER AND MANAGERIAL HYPOTHESES
Manajemen dan Bisnis, 2017 The objectives of this study are to observe the impact of internal cash flow, insider ownership, investment opportunity, investment opportunity and firm size on the capital expenditure in two different theories.
Synta Sutanto +2 more
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PLACE‐FRAMING URBANITY: The Case of Kalasatama, Helsinki
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Narratives, visuality and symbolic representations are increasingly important in contemporary urban planning and development. This article seeks to understand how urbanity, one of the key goals of Helsinki's recent planning, has been constructed in the Kalasatama regeneration area. The construction of urban image and identity is viewed as soft
Tuomas Ilmavirta
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have widely discussed integrating local administrations into climate governance networks, focusing on networks such as the Global Covenant of Mayors or C40, whose members are mostly in the European Union or countries of the global North and premium cities managed by engaged administrations. Relatively little is known about urban‐scale
Alejandra Irigoyen Rios, Rosa Lehmann
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Is the Alternative Exchange achieving its objectives? A capital structure perspective
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2019 Orientation: Despite their significant contribution to the South African economy, the majority of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) fail because of lack of access to appropriate types of capital.
Avani Sebastian, Andres Merino
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Metropolises are rapidly becoming spaces of stark inequalities. While much literature has emphasized the metropolitan scale as a driver of agglomeration economies, recent scholarship highlights either the ungovernable nature of large metropolises or the weak redistributive capacity of their governments as key causes of increasingly unequal ...
Lucía Cerrada Morato +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
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Dynamic capital structure determinants: Some evidence from South African firms
Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2013 This study uses a sample of 49 manufacturing, 24 mining and 23 retail firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange during the period 2005-2010 to investigate the relationship between leverage and the firm’s key financial performance variables ...
Vusani Moyo +2 more
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