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Structure of Demographic Types of Small Towns in Poland Spatial and Temporal Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The aim of this paper is to determine changes in the structure of demographic types of small towns in Poland between 2004 and 2013. It is assumed in the paper, following the Central Statistical Office of Poland, that small towns are urban settlements ...
Kamińska, Wioletta   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Risks of Developing Concentrated Rural Settlement after the Wenchuan Earthquake in China

open access: yes, 2018
Concentrated rural settlement (CRS) reconstruction was promoted as a sustainable rural reconstruction way after the Wenchuan earthquake in China. Despite the various benefits of CRS, haphazard CRS reconstruction presents risks to future sustainable ...
Yi Peng   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rural Settlement Subdivision by Using Landscape Metrics as Spatial Contextual Information

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2017
Multiple policy projects have changed land use and land cover (LULC) in China’s rural regions over the past years, resulting in two types of rural settlements: new-fashioned and old-fashioned.
Xinyu Zheng   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bibliometric analyses of factors influencing color preferences in urban environmental spaces

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Urban color is a crucial visual component of urban aesthetics, directly reflecting national traditional aesthetic consciousness and historical culture, and holding significant aesthetic value and research relevance. As a key factor in urban color studies,
Chunshuo Qu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation and Optimization Model of Rural Settlement Habitability in the Upper Reaches of the Minjiang River, China. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Mei H   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Proposals for adaptation to new economic change through the promotion and selection of holiday villages in Romania [PDF]

open access: yes
Any settlement that is chosen to promote rural tourism is based on the following fundamental components: the centre of the village where most households are concentrated and which expresses the economic functions of the village; its outskirts (work area)
Florentina MIU
core  

“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Photovoltaic Energy-Saving Window Factors on Building Heating Load Under Three Control Modes

open access: yesBuildings
Photovoltaic (PV) glazing is widely used in the building sector for its power generation advantages. However, its low transmittance reduces solar heat gain, limiting energy-saving effectiveness in heating regions.
Jiayi Li, Jianmei Wu, Hongpeng Xu
doaj   +1 more source

Presence of trypanosomatids, with emphasis on Leishmania, in Rodentia and Didelphimorphia mammals of a rural settlement in the central Amazon region. [PDF]

open access: yesMem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 2021
Achilles GR   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Access to Land and Poverty Reduction in Rural Zambia: Connecting the Policy Issues [PDF]

open access: yes
Key Policy Message: - Despite having relatively low population densities, inadequate access to land is one of the major causes of rural poverty in Zambia.
Jayne, Thomas S.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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