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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Risks’ as a justification for, and a challenge to, European territorial co-operation

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2007
Under the new ‘European territorial Co-operation’ objective of the EU’s cohesion policy the programmes for the funding period 2007-2013 refer to ‘natural’, ’environmental’ or ‘flood’ risks.
Ulrich Graute, Stephan Schöps
doaj  

Poverty Among Social and Economic Groups In India in the Nineteen Nineties. [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the levels and changes in poverty indicators of the rural and urban population in India disaggregated by social and economic groups.
K. Sundaram, Suresh D. Tendulkar
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Are malaria treatment expenditures catastrophic to different socio-economic and geographic groups and how do they cope with payment? A study in southeast Nigeria.

open access: yes, 2009
OBJECTIVES: To determine the inequities in the household income depletion resulting from malaria treatment expenditures, the sacrifice of basic household needs (catastrophe) and the differences in payment strategies among different socio-economic and ...
Hanson, Kara   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Private Security and Public Space: New Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Gated Communities

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2006
This article reviews a range of arguments and some of the evidence on the emergence of gated communities or as they will be described in this article gated residential developments (GRDs).
Bill Smith Bowers, Tony Manzi
doaj  

A report on child cycling safety [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The research project identifies and examines various issues related to the cycling safety of urban school children in Hamilton aged between eight and 15 years of age in Hamilton.
Balloch, Rowan   +4 more
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Limits of Polycentrism at the City-regional Scale: The case of Luxembourg

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Spatial Development, 2014
Over the last fifteen years, promoters of the European spatial planning policy have presented polycentrism as the most promising strategy for answering the challenge of a more even spatial development.
Antoine Decoville, Olivier Klein
doaj  

Immersive and non immersive 3D virtual city: decision support tool for urban sustainability [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Sustainable urban planning decisions must not only consider the physical structure of the urban development but the economic, social and environmental factors.
Blackwood, David J.   +3 more
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