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Exemption or illusion? The impact of a youth tax policy on house asking prices in Portugal

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Affordable housing has become an increasing challenge for young individuals in Portugal, where rising house prices and precarious employment conditions hinder homeownership. To address this barrier, the Portuguese Government introduced a tax exemption for individuals under 35 purchasing their first home.
Luís Clemente‐Casinhas, Sofia Vale
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Severe Hearing Loss in the World's First Successfully Captive‐Born Yangtze Finless Porpoise: Impact of High Underwater Sound Exposure and Congenital Hearing Disorders

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The audiogram of the world's first successfully captive‐born Yangtze finless porpoise was on average 40 dB higher than conspecifics. Congenital hearing disorders and noise exposure may be the primary cause of porpoise's hearing loss. ABSTRACT Aquariums globally have seen significant growth in recent decades.
Zhitao Wang, Tomonari Akamatsu, Kexiong Wang, Ding Wang   +3 more
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Researching Rupture: Engaged and Ethical Research on Extreme Nature–Society Disruption

Antipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Global escalation in social and environmental disruption raises crucial methodological and ethical questions for researchers working in impacted communities. Interpretive social science and humanities research can make visible the experiences of those living through socio‐ecological “rupture”.
Sango Mahanty, Carolyn M. Hendriks, Sarah Milne, Anthea Snowsill, Raven Cretney, Laura Davy   +5 more
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Aspirations‐Capabilities of School‐to‐Work Transition in a Migratory Context: A Case of Thai Tertiary‐Level Migrants in Taiwan

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores aspirations‐capabilities of Thai migrants who transitioned from tertiary education to employment in Taiwan. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with 23 Thai migrants, this study unpacks three distinct mobility trajectories under a processual perspective.
Pakorn Phalapong
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The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
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Towards a Just Coastal Transition: The Mixed Success of Livelihood Diversification and ‘Bouncing Back’ Among Seaweed Farmers in Sorsogon Province, the Philippines

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The need to integrate localised settings of coastal communities within its wider marine and landscapes calls to provide contextualised assessments. Drawing upon the ambition of the Philippines to identify opportunities for enhancing coastal livelihoods, the potential of seaweed farming accruing to high productivity in many of its regions is ...
Richard V. Dumilag, Edo Andriesse
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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‘Missing persons’: Ancient legacies of human–environment interaction in tropical natural properties inscribed under the 1972 World Heritage Convention

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Cultural and natural values form the core of World Heritage designation. Properties displaying both values, however, comprise a fraction of inscriptions (currently c. 3%) to the World Heritage List. In 1992, when that fraction stood at c. 5%, adoption of the popular ‘cultural landscapes’ category of cultural heritage in 1992 was therefore ...
Ryan J. Rabett
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Intensifying translocal precarity: The impact of COVID‐19 on smallholder farmers' commodity production and social reproduction in Cambodia

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Our paper argues that COVID‐19 deepened the translocal precarity of smallholder households, who already had to struggle with volatile commodity production and uncertain labour migration. Through the lens of translocal precarity, it reveals how the pandemic played out within a broader conjuncture of agrarian transformation, defined by ...
Rosa Yi, W. Nathan Green
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