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Beyond ‘peer pressure’: rethinking drug use and ‘youth culture’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The study of drug use by young people in the West has been transformed over the last decade by the development of sociological approaches to drug use which take serious account of the cultural context in which young people encounter drugs.
Applebaum   +41 more
core   +1 more source

Letting People in: Redefining Collaboration in Wildland–Urban Interface Governance

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intensifying wildfire regimes and expanding human settlements into wilderness areas have heightened concerns about the wildland–urban interface (WUI) due to the associated increase in fire risk. However, the WUI presents broader social‐ecological challenges that go beyond wildfire risk and remain understudied.
Clara Mosso   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land Use Patterns and Small Investment Project Preferences in Participatory Budgeting: Insights from a City in Poland

open access: yesLand
This article presents a spatial analysis of projects selected by city residents and implemented in five successive editions (2015–2019) of the participatory budgeting in Częstochowa, Poland.
Katarzyna Groszek   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public and private use of open space in a densely urbanized context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The boundary between the Flemish urban and rural areas has faded in recent years and a fragmented spatial structure has emerged. The ‘open space’ is evolving from an agricultural production area to a semi-urbanized consumption area.
Allaert, Georges   +4 more
core   +1 more source

The Global Epilepsy Needs Study (GENS): A mixed‐methods, multi‐country exploration of the unmet psychosocial and everyday needs of people with epilepsy

open access: yesEpilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective While epilepsy research has largely focused on medical management and clinical outcomes, less attention has been given to the unmet psychosocial and everyday needs of people with epilepsy (PWE), particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries.
Gus A. Baker   +52 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taking the High Road: Protecting Open Space Along America's Highways [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Examines the environmental impacts of road construction and the spiraling of land prices along new roads, and promotes best practices for linking land use and road construction.
Preston L. Schiller
core  

Tourism in Moscow after the ‘Perestroika’ transformations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Moscow seems indeed to be a centre of world tourism. On the one hand, its tourism attractiveness for Russians and foreigners, as well as the wide opportunities it offers to its own inhabitants, stimulates trips for tourism and recreational purposes.
Aleksandrova, Anna
core   +1 more source

How Does Vulnerability Framing by Microfinance Institutions Leverage Funding Success in Crowdfunding?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study draws on framing theory to investigate how microfinance institutions (MFIs) strategically construct a vulnerability‐oriented organisational identity and how this framing influences their funding decisions during the pre‐campaign phase of prosocial crowdfunding.
Ana Paula Matias Gama   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CHARACTERISTICS OF SPORTS RECREATIONAL TOURISM IN MONTENEGRO [PDF]

open access: yesSport Mont, 2010
Basic for realization of tourist movements lays in meeting cultural and recreational needs of potential customers. If we know that largest number of tourists represents part of recreational ones, than is not hard to realize how large potential lays in ...
Ognjen Jovović   +2 more
doaj  

Involvement of Park and Recreation Professionals in Pedestrian Plans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Professionals from many different disciplines are finding innovative ways to work together to increase physical activity to help create healthier communities.
Aytur, Semra   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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