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'Exploring the bunker' - a response by Luke Bennett to 'Shallow Excavation' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is a copy my response to Bradley L. Garrett's June 2011 critique of my paper in Environment & Planning D: Society and Space (2011) 29: 421-434 entitled 'Bunkerology - a case study in the theory and practice of urban exploration'.
Bennett, Luke
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Creating Low-carbon Communities: Evaluating the Role of Individual Agency and Systemic Inequality in San Jose, CA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Following a scholarly need to test compelling community level sociodemographic representations of environmental behaviors and outcomes, a sequential mixed method approach was used to evaluate the connections of human agency and systemic inequalities with
Ronald, Erin Jessica
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Central Government Poverty Policy and Local Deviation: A Comparison of \u3ci\u3eDibao\u3c/i\u3e Regulations Across State Levels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Chinese government has implemented a means-tested social security net for the poorest known as dibao. We compare dibao legislation from the State Council, the Shandong provincial government, and the Qingdao municipal government. As a case study, this
Kolmos, Maja, Rosenmeier, Christopher
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A critical analysis of urban regeneration programmes in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Urban regeneration is informed and driven by the causes and effects of globalization, climate change, the global economic crisis, and lifestyle changes.
Durosaiye, Isaiah Oluremi, Hadjri, Karim
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Urban Violence Is not (Necessarily) a Way of Life [PDF]

open access: yes
As the world moves towards its so-called urban ‘tipping point’, urbanization in the global South has increasingly come to be portrayed as the portent of a dystopian future characterized by ever-mounting levels of anarchy and brutality.
Rodgers, Dennis
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The ghost of Patrick Geddes:civics as applied sociology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In 1904 and 1905 Patrick Geddes (1905, 1906) read his famed, but today little-read, two-part paper, 'Civics: as Applied Sociology', to the first meetings of the British Sociological Society. Geddes is often thought of as a 'pioneer of sociology' (Mairet,
Law, Alex
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Migration and Food Security: Zimbabwean Migrants in Urban South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This report examines the food security status of Zimbabwean migrant households in the poorer areas of two major South African cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town. The vast majority were food insecure in terms of the amount of food to which they had access
Crush, Jonathan, Tawodzera, Godfrey
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Game Theoretical Interactions of Moving Agents

open access: yes, 2009
Game theory has been one of the most successful quantitative concepts to describe social interactions, their strategical aspects, and outcomes. Among the payoff matrix quantifying the result of a social interaction, the interaction conditions have been ...
A. Axelrod   +45 more
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Menstruation-Related Symptoms and Associated Factors among Female University Students in Vietnam

open access: yesYouth
Menstruation and menstrual-related symptoms, stress, and lifestyle factors can significantly affect the health and academic lives of university students.
Yukie Matsuura   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Media Addiction, Personality Factors and Fear of Negative Evaluation in a Sample of Young Adults

open access: yesYouth
Despite growing attention paid to exploring the benefits as well as negative consequences of social media use, we know less about the background variables involved in social media addiction.
Bettina F. Piko   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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