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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing plague risk across seven decades of environmental change in Inner Mongolia, China: An interpretable machine learning. [PDF]

iScience
Wang X, Shang M, Zhao C, Sun Y, Feng L, Xia L, Liu Q.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Railway track dynamic modelling

, 2017
QC ...
openaire   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

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
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Vulnerability: Structure, Cascades, and Resilience in the Global Railway Vans Trade Network. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Zhou L, Zhou L, Gong W, Chen C, Huang B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

Service-oriented vulnerability assessment for the larger-scale high speed railway infrastructure network: a case in China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Zhang H, Xing H, Ma X, Jia L.
europepmc   +1 more source

300 Years of Degradation in Wales Estuaries and Coasts

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The world's oceans are in a severe state of degradation, yet our understanding of that degradation is often based on changes observed only in the past 20–50 years. This narrow view leads to marine conservation efforts that aim to preserve already degraded ecosystems, shaped by shifted ecological baselines.
Richard K. F. Unsworth, Blaise Bullimore, Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Benjamin L. H. Jones   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

FPN-Based Faster R-CNN for Fiber Distributed Acoustic Sensing Intrusion Detection in High-Speed Railway. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Lei Z, Dong Z, Xu H, Xiao X, Qiu X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Market Integration and Nonlinear Price Transmission in 19th‐Century British Wheat Markets

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Important developments in infrastructure and institutions characterized 19th‐Century wheat markets in Great Britain. Among these developments was the construction of the national rail system which enabled cheaper and more efficient transport of grain and other bulky cargoes between inland towns and ports.
Barry K. Goodwin, A. Ford Ramsey
wiley   +1 more source