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The modern architecture culture of Harbin based on memes

Heritage Science
Cultural memes, which have the same heritability and variability as particulate biological genes, provide culture units that can be shared and transmitted across different periods, allowing cultural computing to be performed in a fine-grained manner ...
Jun Cai, Jianfei Dong, Yuan Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

Frontier Revitalisation of Industrial Heritage with Urban–Rural Fringe in China

Buildings
The urban–rural fringe is at the forefront of the confrontation between the agricultural and industrial civilisations. How to handle the relationship between the two civilisations in this region and ensure its sustainable development is an eternal topic ...
Tingjiang Gan, Juan Chen, Muxia Yao, Jeremy Cenci, Jiazhen Zhang, Yunxiao He   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

New marketing strategies in the development of regions, cities and settlements (villages) [PDF]

Regional- and settlement marketing (in the following: RSM) is a relatively young but dynamically developing branch of the science and practice of marketing.
Vinarne Bellasz, Zsuzsa
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measures of Spatial and Demographic Disparities in Access to Urban Green Space in Harbin, China

Complexity, 2020
Access to urban green space (UGS) is associated with the enhancement of health and disparities in access generate issues of spatial equity and socioenvironmental justice.
Qian Xie, Ming Lu
doaj   +1 more source

Eureka and beyond: mining's impact on African urbanisation [PDF]

, 2012
This collection brings separate literatures on mining and urbanisation together at a time when both artisanal and large-scale mining are expanding in many African economies. While much has been written about contestation over land and mineral rights, the
Anderson D.M., Appiah K.A., Bank L., Barnes T.J., Beall J., Bebbington A., Brands H.W., Bridge G., Bridge G., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Buijtenhuis R., Carstens P., Cooper F., Coquery-Vidrovitch C., Danny MacKinnon, De Boeck F., De Boeck F., De Boeck F., Deborah Bryceson, Dore E., Duffy R., Emel J., Ferguson J., Freudenberg W.R., Freudenburg W.R., Freund W., Freund W.M., Gluckman M., Godfrey B.J., Grätz T., Harries P., Hilson G., Hilson G., Hilson G., Holliday J.S., Jeeves A., Johnston R.J., Jønsson J.B., Kirk J.F., Laverty J.R., Lawrie M., Le Billon P., Le Billon P., Luning S.W.J., Mabin A., Mabin A., Mkandawire T., Moodie T.D., Morris R.J., Morris R.J., O'Connor A., Parks R., Peters K., Potts D., Rajak D., Rakodi C., Richards P., Ross M., Saad E.N., Smith M.D., Storey K., Swanson M., Tonts M., Vennetier P., Verhoeve A., Walker R.A., Walsh A., Walsh A., Welsby D.A., Werthman K., Wilks I., Wilson L.J., Wolpe H.   +77 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

REGULATING URBANISATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA THROUGH CLUSTER SETTLEMENTS: LESSONS FOR URBAN MANGERS IN ETHIOPIA [PDF]

Against the backdrop that urbanization in sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries, including Ethiopia, has occurred without the attendant growth and development spillovers; and that the inherent benefits of urbanization are threatened by the fast pace of ...
Davidson Sunday Ashemi ALACI
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The futures of rural migration in sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review and exploratory essay [PDF]

, 2019
In a context where 200 million more people are expected to live in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) alone by 2050, the question of the futures of SSA rural migration is of crucial importance in a region which so far as remained essentially rural, in spite of a ...
Bourgeois, Robin
core   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source