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Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper‐hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co‐living schemes—for‐profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts—it ...
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

3-D Simulations of the San Francisco Estuary with Subgrid Bathymetry to Explore Long-Term Trends in Salinity Distribution and Fish Abundance

open access: yesSan Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2016
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15447/sfews.2016v14iss2art3The UnTRIM hydrodynamic model was applied to San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta (Delta) using a coarse-resolution model grid with bathymetry represented at a finer subgrid scale. We
Michael MacWilliams   +2 more
doaj  

The case for Pacific media reform to reflect island communities

open access: yesPacific Journalism Review, 2005
"The largest number of Tongans outside of Tonga lives in the United States. It is estimated to be more than 70,000; most live in the San Francisco Bay Area. On several occasions during two visits to the US by my wife and I during 2004, we met workers who
Kalafi Moala
doaj   +1 more source

Pacific herring, Clupea harengus pallasi, studies in San Francisco Bay, April 1986 to March 1987 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Herring schools were surveyed hydroacoustically and sampled in San Francisco Bay from late October 1986 to March 1987. Eight large schools (greater than 1000 tons each) spawned from December to February and seven smaller schools were detected throughout ...
Moore, Thomas O., Reilly, Paul N.
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Structural change in the US office market after 2019: Evidence from lease‐level data

open access: yesReal Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how the leasing activities, contract features, and pricing of the Class A office leasing market have evolved since 2019 across five major US markets: Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Dallas, Washington, DC, and New York City. Using a granular dataset of 73,508 office leases from 2010 to 2024, we find a broad‐based contraction ...
Liang Peng, Xue Xiao
wiley   +1 more source

Compound coastal flooding in San Francisco Bay under climate change

open access: yesnpj Natural Hazards
The risk of compound coastal flooding in the San Francisco Bay Area is increasing due to climate change yet remains relatively underexplored. Using a novel hybrid statistical-dynamical downscaling approach, this study investigates the impacts of climate ...
Zhenqiang Wang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A tale of two cities: how San Francisco surged forward while LA fell behind [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
For most of the twentieth century, the Los Angeles region had one of the county’s best performing economies. But now, incomes of those in the San Francisco Bay area outpace those in LA by a third.
Kemeny, Thomas   +3 more
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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in the Sediment Yield of the Sacramento River, California, 1957–2001

open access: yesSan Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 2004
Human activities within a watershed, such as agriculture, urbanization, and dam building, may affect the sediment yield from the watershed. Because the equilibrium geomorphic form of an estuary is dependent in part on the sediment supply from the ...
Scott A. Wright, David H. Schoellhamer
doaj  

Pacific herring, Clupea harengus pallasi, studies in San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay, and the Gulf of the Farallones, July 1982 to March 1983 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1983
Herring stocks were hydroacoustically surveyed and sampled in San Francisco Bay from November 1982 to March 1983. Twelve discrete herring schools were identified, all of which spawned between November 7 and February 23. One additional school was found in
Moore, Thomas O., Reilly, Paul N.
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