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Segregation and Strategic Neighborhood Interaction [PDF]
We introduce social interactions into the Schelling model of residential choice. These social interactions take the form of a Prisoner's Dilemma game played with neighbors.
Jason Barr, Troy Tassier
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Unraveling the impact of dog‐friendly spaces on urban–wildland pumas and other wildlife
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.As the most widespread large carnivore on the planet, domestic dogs Canis lupus familiaris can pose a major threat to wildlife, even within protected areas (PAs). Growing human presence in PAs, coupled with increasing pet dog ownership underscores the urgency to understand the influence of dogs on wildlife activity and health.
Alys Granados +3 more
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Residential segregation of socioeconomic variables and health indices in Iran
International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2013 Background: Measures of segregation are essential tools for evaluation of social equality. They describe complex structural patterns by single quantities and allow the comparison of inequalities over time or between residential places. In many countries,
Seyed Saeed Hashemi Nazari +2 more
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EPJ Data ScienceSocial segregation in cities refers to the uneven spatial distribution of individuals from unequal social groups, such as affluent and economically vulnerable people. Social segregation may, in turn, produce social inequalities through contextual effects,
Clémentine Cottineau-Mugadza +4 more
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Ontogeny of foraging behaviour in an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban marine ecosystems
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Urbanization affects ecosystems by reducing biodiversity and displacing species from native habitats. While some suffer, others, like urban wildlife, adapt through innovative feeding and behaviours that improve their fitness in human‐altered settings. Despite research on wildlife in urban areas, the development of foraging behaviour in urban species is
Joan Navarro +7 more
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Data in BriefRacial or ethnic residential segregation is the physical separation of individuals into different neighborhoods by race or ethnicity. This selective sorting process has a large impact on the social, economic, political, and health outcomes of populations,
Cyanna McGowan +2 more
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.Partial seasonal migration is rarely considered in a metapopulation context. Here, Haaland et al. use an eco‐evolutionary model revealing how partially migratory metapopulations may arise and be maintained, and how seasonal migrants may cause effects of local extreme climatic events to percolate through metapopulations across diverging temporal and ...
Thomas R. Haaland +7 more
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De Jure School Segregation as the Result of Racist Housing Policies [PDF]
, 2018 It is no secret that African Americans have been and continue to be marginalized in American society. A revival of racial justice movements and protests have brought the issue back into the public eye across the country and even here at UVM.
Kane, Devin C.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Cidades, Comunidades e TerritórioIn the field of urban studies, residential segregation has traditionally been viewed as closely linked to social inequality. However, recent research in the European context has empirically demonstrated that this relationship is much more complex.
Maria Ángeles Rodriguez Domenech +1 more
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