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Coastal Capital: Dominican Republic: Case Studies on the Economic Value of Coastal Ecosystems in the Dominican Republic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Illustrates the benefits coralline beaches, reefs, and mangroves in various parts of the country offer, including providing protection against beach erosion, habitats for fisheries, potential tourism growth in protected marine areas, and local ...
Emily Cooper   +3 more
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A Licence to Kill: Necroeconomic Suffocation by Stealth and the Fight for Life

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the case of Awaab Ishak, who died (age two) when he suffocated from mould in his home in Rochdale, North‐West England.
Imogen Tyler, Beverley Skeggs
wiley   +1 more source

Market Access, the Skill Premium and Human Capital in Spain (1860–1930)

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 201-228, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between market access and human capital in the context of an industrializing economy, in this case Spain between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, we examine whether differences in regional accumulations of human capital could be related to market access.
Rafael González‐Val   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Les réseaux d’équipements sportifs dans les stations balnéaires : l’exemple du tennis

open access: yesIn Situ, 2004
Sport facilities networks are an integral part of sport history and development in France. Starting as a snobbish activity, in one century sport became a popular phenomenon.
Françoise Rollan
doaj   +1 more source

The Challenges of Being Left Behind: Peripheralisation in English Small Rural Towns

open access: yesSociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Rural small towns have long been viewed as places of retail and service provision for both their populations and people in surrounding rural hinterlands, although in many countries these roles are in decline, with these settlements increasingly viewed as ‘left behind places’ experiencing peripheralisation.
Martin Phillips
wiley   +1 more source

Indo–Iran Nexus: Implications for Sino–Pakistani Relations

open access: yesPacific Focus, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 555-587, December 2025.
The present study examines the geopolitical rivalry and the maritime strategies of the Chabahar and Gwadar marine port in the surroundings of the Indo–Iranian and Sino–Pakistani so‐called nexuses as it relates to the new security and economic environment across South Asia.
Hafeez Ullah Khan
wiley   +1 more source

Les Guides Joanne : invention d’une collection

open access: yesIn Situ, 2011
From the very beginning of the existence of the Joanne guide-books, one can notice the remarkable adaptation to new habits, changes and way of travelling. Even destinations could be favoured or become completely out of fashion.
Hélène Morlier
doaj   +1 more source

A survey of beach pollution at a seaside resort [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Hygiene, 1954
Bacteriological surveys of beach pollution were made at a seaside resort before and after the installation of a new sewer outfall.The presumptive coliform count on samples of sea water was found to be a satisfactory index of contamination, and showed good agreement with sanitary survey and with the results of float-test observations.
openaire   +2 more sources

‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.
Short Abstract 1940 saw the mass internment of so‐called ‘enemy aliens’ within Britain; this meant that innocent civilians were incarcerated in camps across the country, particularly within the tourist spaces of the Isle of Man. We interrogate how the holiday—as a geography of ideas, spaces, practices movements and sensibilities—became a frame of ...
Michael Holden, Peter Adey
wiley   +1 more source

Mui Ne (Vietnam) : deux approches différenciées de la plage par les touristes occidentaux et domestiques

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2008
Mui Ne est une station balnéaire vietnamienne qui accueille à la fois des touristes occidentaux et vietnamiens. L’été venu, elle constitue ainsi une excellente occasion pour le géographe de comparer le fonctionnement spatial de territoires que se sont ...
Emmanuelle Peyvel
doaj   +1 more source

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