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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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Visual power and urban prospective: Doha’s post – 2022 stadiums
Journal of Architecture and UrbanismThis paper examines the FIFA 2022 World Cup stadiums, understanding their role as urban artifacts that extend beyond sports infrastructure. It aims to evaluate whether these mega-structures function as active urban nodes or as symbolic objects within ...
Emina Zejnilovic +2 more
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World Development Indicators 2006
, 2006 The developing world has made remarkable progress. The number of people living in extreme poverty on less than $1 a day has fallen by about 400 million in the last 25 years.
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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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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how sustainability is mobilized as a governance strategy in large‐scale urban redevelopment. Focusing on the RIVUS Mall project in Cluj‐Napoca, alongside comparative cases from Bratislava and Gdańsk, it traces how environmental objectives are translated into institutional practices, planning rationales, and financial ...
MIHAI IACOB
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Adapting the world to the needs of its growing population [full issue]
, 1965 [31] p.Second World Population Conference (Belgrade, September 1965 ...
World Health Organization
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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Demand Networks and Informal Volunteering
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Patterns of volunteering have predominantly been explained by focusing on the supply side in terms of volunteers' resources and motivations. We shift the focus to the demand side of volunteering and develop the concept of demand networks.
Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Jonas Toubøl
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transnational due diligence regulations, such as the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products (EUDR), are reshaping sustainability governance by transforming voluntary norms into binding global rules. Yet, their effectiveness depends on how well they align with domestic governance systems and on the power asymmetries that ...
John James Loomis +2 more
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Strengthening Bolivian Competitiveness : Export Diversification and Inclusive Growth
, 2009 Bolivia's trade liberalization, launched in the mid-1980s, has resulted in a relatively open trade regime; but the results have been mixed.
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