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Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Robust measurement of disadvantage is essential to identifying and addressing inequities in children's development. We tested how a multidimensional framework of child disadvantage performed relative to a traditional socioeconomic position (SEP) approach to predict developmental outcomes.
Wei Hong, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O'Connor, Shuaijun Guo, Sharon Goldfeld, Meredith O'Connor, Cindy Pham, Sarah Gray   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agricultural land use change and its drivers in the Sudanese Ethiopian borderland: the case of Al-Fashaga region

Geology, Ecology, and Landscapes
The Al-Fashaga region, situated along the Sudanese-Ethiopian border, has experienced significant land use and land cover (LULC) changes over the past three decades due to large-scale mechanized agriculture and conflict-related dynamics.
Hussein M. Sulieman
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mining corporate social responsibility and socio-environmental conflicts in Peru [PDF]

Revista Internacional de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales, 2021
Wilwer Vilca-Quispe, Erika Loa-Navarro, Ángel Amidey Ramírez-Puraca, Cristian Gumercindo Medina-Sotelo   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Addressing the Long-Term Management of High-level and Long-lived Nuclear Wastes as a Socio-Technical Problem:Insights from InSOTEC [PDF]

, 2014
This report summarises the lessons to be drawn from the three-year collaborative social sciences research project ‘International Socio-Technical Challenges for implementing geological disposal’ (InSOTEC).
Barthe, Yannick, Bergmans, Anne, Brohmann, Bettina, Kallenbach-Herbert, Beate, Martell, Meritxell, Simmons, Peter   +5 more
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Inequality Within a Personalised System of Disability Support: Australian Children With Disabilities' Unmet Support Needs

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty, Jessica Hill, Jennifer Smith‐Merry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governmental communication and socio-environmental conflict management

, 2012
El artículo aborda de manera exploratoria las capacidades y limitaciones comunicacionales estatales y de las unidades de gestión de conflictos para la transformación de los conflictos socioambientales. Se analiza el tipo de intervención que los Gobiernos en el Perú realizaron en el espacio mediático, a raíz de los conflictos que más trascendencia ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Socio-environmental Conflicts, Mining Concessions and Territorial Planning in Peru

, 2019
Este artículo pretende contestar la pregunta sobre cuál es la potencialidad del ordenamiento territorial para transformar los conflictos socioambientales asociados a la expansión de las actividades mineras en el Perú. Sobre la base de entrevistas y documentos, el artículo muestra que, para que estos mecanismos contribuyan a generar las condiciones para
Gustafsson, Maria Therese, Scurrah, Martin   +1 more
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Tanzanian Coastal and Marine Resources: Some Examples Illustrating Questions of Sustainable Use [PDF]

, 2001
This is Chapter 4 of the book Lessons Learned: Case Studies in Sustainable Use. The coast of Tanzania is characterised by a wide diversity of biotopes and species, typical of the tropical Indowest Pacific oceans, and the peoples living there utilise a ...
Ian Bryceson, Julius Francis
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