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Cities and population health. [PDF]
, 2005 A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007 and cities are exerting growing influence on the health of both urban and non-urban residents. Although there long has been substantial interest in the associations between city living
Freudenberg, Nicholas +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Access to (urban) nature is vital for people's wellbeing, but this accessibility is not evenly spread across socio‐demographic groups, nor across the European continent. This paper fills a research gap by exploring the use patterns and accessibility of forests and parks across European cities, based on a standardised online survey of 10,462 ...
Ivana Živojinović +17 more
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Sliding Doors: Frame Uptake and Rejection by Learners in a Museum‐Based Climate Learning Experience
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Science education efforts that support public understanding of modern climate change are critically needed. However, implementing climate‐related learning experiences can be challenging, as public audiences tend to experience a wide range of understandings of and emotions around the issue. In light of these challenges, many scholars have posed
Lynne Zummo +7 more
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Modes d’habiter urbains et ruraux : entre continuité et rupture
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2011 The metropolization process marked the advent of a postmodern society in which the growing polarization of agglomerations on local space would lead to a levelling of lifestyles.
Samuel Carpentier
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Minimum Wages and Homelessness
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Economic theory offers competing predictions about how minimum wage policies might affect homelessness. While minimum wages might reduce homelessness by raising incomes, they could also trigger employment disruptions and negative income shocks identified in the literature as proximate causes of homelessness.
Seth J. Hill
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African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
Southern Spaces, 2006 One of the most striking developments in recent southern history has been the pace and scale of African American suburbanization. Delving into the history of black organizations, civic politics, race-based policies, class economics and neighborhood ...
Andrew Wiese
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Measuring the geography of opportunity [PDF]
, 2016 Quantitative segregation research focuses almost exclusively on the spatial sorting of demographic groups. This research largely ignores the structural characteristics of neighborhoods – such as crime, job accessibility, and school quality – that likely ...
Lens, Michael C
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.As human‐modified landscape and climate changes proliferate, maintaining biodiversity and understanding the function and quality of available habitat is imperative. As anurans (frogs/toads) such as Pseudacris crucifer, can be an indicator species of habitat quality and ecosystem productivity, studying the anuran community in a mixed‐land use region ...
Brian C. Kron, Karen V. Root
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Ecological sustainability and urban form [PDF]
One controversial idea present in the debate on urban sustainability is that urban sprawl is an ecological stressing problem. We have tested this popular assumption by measuring the ecological footprint of commuting and housing of the 163 municipalities ...
Anna Galindo, Ivan Muñiz
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Dynamics of urban sprawl [PDF]
, 1999 This paper introduces a framework for understanding the dynamics of urban growth,particularly the continuing problem of urban sprawl. The models we present are based on transitions from vacant land to established development.
Batty, M, Sun, Z, Xie, Y
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