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To Be or Not to Be at the BOP: A One-North-Many-Souths Model with Subsistence and Luxury Goods [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we seek to explain the causes and consequences of Northern penetration in Southern subsistence markets in order to reach the countless masses at the Bottom of the (Income) Pyramid.
Schmidt, Tobias, Zon, Adriaan van
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Green Human Resource Management and ISO 14001: Toward Environmental Sustainability in Organizations

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current climate change scenario imposes urgent challenges to different economic sectors around the world, requiring companies to adopt new strategies to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) while enhancing environmental awareness.
Eduardo Ortega   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individual Subsistence: On a Principle of Economy and Society [PDF]

open access: yes
With this paper the author tries to clarify the terms of “public“ and “private“ with reference to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and Johann Heinrich von Thünen.
Thieme, Sebastian
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Subsistence food production and marketing in Papua New Guinea : a research paper presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Philosophy in Development Studies at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Agriculture is the main component of the economic sector of the Less Developed Countries (LDC's) of Asia, Africa and Latin America. In most of these countries, which includes Papua New Guinea (PNG), subsistence agriculture dominates despite the ...
Peng, Peter Benjamen
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Housing Security, Relative Deprivation, and Subjective Well‐Being: Empirical Evidence Derived From CFPS Data

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The housing issue significantly influences individuals' well‐being. As a crucial mechanism for alleviating the housing issue, the housing security system has garnered increasing attention regarding its impact on residents' happiness. Utilizing data from the China Household Tracking Survey (CFPS), this paper seeks to thoroughly investigate the ...
Lingzhen Yao, Bei Qiao, Yuhan Hu
wiley   +1 more source

Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation

open access: yesSustainability, 2018
African elephants (Loxodonta africana) induce considerable crop damage risks, shocks and stresses on subsistence farmers at the wildlife-agriculture interface.
V. Nyirenda   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impacts of Social Assistance During the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Poor Remote Communities

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing social assistance to poor populations in remote communities in times of crises, such as pandemics, is challenging but crucial. This paper examines how food assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic affected people's behaviour, using our surveys among over 400 rural communities without road access in the Peruvian Amazon. Food assistance
Yoshito Takasaki   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating Species Composition in the Early Aurignacian of Le Piage (France) Through Collagen Fingerprinting (ZooMS) of Screen-Recovered Small Bone Fragments

open access: yesPaleoAnthropology
In the paleoproteomic field, ZooMS (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry) has been developed to identify morphologically non-diagnostic animal remains to taxon, offering insights into human subsistence practices.
Pauline Raymond   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dry‐Season Water Deficits in the Southwestern Amazon Under High Emissions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Projected climatic water deficit in the study region indicates a longer and more intense dry season, with delays in the onset of the wet season under higher emission scenarios. These changes, particularly, pronounced under SSP5‐8.5, suggest increased ecological vulnerability and greater seasonal water stress.
Débora J. Dutra   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

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