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Unlocking the Potential of Forgotten Spaces: Integrating Lost Green Spaces and Urban Wetlands into Sustainable Urban Development

Urban Science
Forgotten spaces, often referred to as lost spaces or non-places, represent a crucial challenge in contemporary urbanism and sustainable urban development.
Tímea Žolobaničová, Roberta Štěpánková, Attila Tóth   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Farm labor scarcity and its uneven impacts on crop producers in the United States

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study is the first to evaluate the impacts of farm labor scarcity on producers in the United States across different crop production systems. Between 2002 and 2017, we disentangle the effects of labor scarcity from the impacts of rising commodity demand, technological change, and supply of other inputs on labor market outcomes.
Srabashi Ray, Alexandra E. Hill, Iman Haqiqi, J. Edward Taylor, Thomas W. Hertel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki, Francisca N. Muteti, Annemie Maertens, Michael Ndegwa, Hope Michelson, Mercy Mbugua, Jason Donovan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese, Chiara Fiscone, Ashraf Kagee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contemporary transversalities in architecture and urbanism: from materiality to epistemic identities

ESTOA: Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Cuenca
A critical stance on architecture and urbanism is constructed by presenting them as fields shaped by multiple scales, bodies of knowledge, and conflicts.
Pedro Jiménez-Pacheco
doaj   +1 more source

Internet use and adolescent development: A conceptual model integrating behavioral and contextual theories

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the digital era, adolescent development is deeply embedded in the cyber environment. Despite ongoing debate on the benefits and/or risks that Internet use brings to adolescents in empirical studies, conceptual and theoretical discussion on the influences of the intensity and modalities of Internet use is peripheral.
Linxiao Zhang, Lin Fang, Faye Mishna, Liangqi Shen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Traditional Yoga: The Science of Yoga

, 2016
Approx 100 Illustrations for various books, booklets and website relating to the traditional teachings of the Buddha and Patanjali for international educational dissemination.
Braund, Stephen, Traditional Yoga UK & Traditonal Yoga India   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Analysis of urban multifunctional land use in historical centres: the case of the Casbah of Algiers

Built Heritage
Urban multifunctional land use (MLU) is a concept closely related to sustainability. Research on its parameters recalls the urban parameters of mixed land use in traditional cities. In addition to the density and diversity of housing and facilities, this
Manel Souidi
doaj   +1 more source

Federal Protections for Farmworker Health in the United States: A Scoping Review of Three Decades of Research

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives This scoping review characterizes the scope, methods, and framing of empirical research evaluating the Field Sanitation Standard (FSS) and Worker Protection Standard (WPS) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Labor respectively.
Kaitlyn Alvarez Noli, Stephane Labossiere, Becca Berkey, Joseph G. Grzywacz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quote weavers. Intermediality in the short story of the eighties and nineties in Croatia

Anafora, 2015
Besides urbanism, intermediality is another common characteristic where the continuity of the Croatian short story of the eighties and nineties can be found.
Adam Walko
doaj