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Stakeholder Input and Meeting Summary Report [PDF]

, 2009
The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) is part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Estuary Program, which is a joint local/state/federal program established under the Clean Water Act.
D. B. Truslow Associates
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Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
wiley   +1 more source

Eyes Wide Open: Deciding When to Launch a Community Initiative [PDF]

, 2003
Based on the experience and evaluation of Irvine's Community Foundations Initiative. Provides a guideline to use in the important due diligence that should come before giving any initiative the green ...

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Do robots boost productivity? A quantitative meta‐study

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This meta‐study analyzes the productivity effects of industrial robots. More than 1800 estimates from 85 primary studies are collected. The meta‐analytic evidence suggests that robotization has so far provided, at best, a small boost to productivity. There is strong evidence of publication bias in the positive direction.
Florian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Addressing cultural, social and environmental sustainability in architecture. The approach of five contemporary Australian architects [PDF]

, 2007
Regionalist architecture offers a promising and conscientious response to the present scenario of growing trend toward cultural, social and technical globalization.
Paolella, A, Quattrone, G
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Polanyi on crisis: The United States, fascism and ecological break‐down

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses Karl Polanyi's understanding of the crisis inherent in liberal economics to analyse a contemporary crisis—Trump's global tariff agenda. It argues that Trump's tariff agenda conforms to Polanyi's interpretation of how the crisis of liberal economics can disintegrate into more malignant forces.
ROWAN ALCOCK
wiley   +1 more source

On critical levels of ecological status for macrozoobenthic communities in Peter the Great Bay of the Japan Sea: field studies

Izvestiya TINRO
Relationship between the environmental stress index (PES) and the mean total explained variance of biotic parameters (MEV, as a measure of the environmental factors influence on macrozoobenthic communities) is determined using the methods of multiple ...
А. V. Moshchenko
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reducing Livability: How Sustainability Planning Threatens the American Dream [PDF]

, 2013
This report posits that sustainability plans are infringing on people's rights and preventing them from securing the type of housing they ...
Randal O'Toole
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Future Life Plans and Relationship Formation: A Bidirectional Approach Based on Evidence From Finland

Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines the prospective and bidirectional association between personal identity processes and relationship formation using longitudinal survey data from Finland. Background Although psychological factors have increasingly been studied as determinants for family formation processes, the role of identity exploration and ...
Steffen Peters, Rasmus Mannerström, Katariina Salmela‐Aro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unveiling Propriety, Validity and Consensus: A Multi‐level Examination of Legitimacy Following the Global Financial Crisis

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Previous work on legitimacy has conceptualized its multi‐level nature, encompassing individual‐level propriety and collective‐level validity. Recently, scholars have introduced the construct of consensus, the degree to which evaluators agree in terms of their propriety beliefs.
Patrick Haack, Jost Sieweke, Michael D. Pfarrer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source