‘Risks’ as a justification for, and a challenge to, European territorial co-operation
European 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
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Sexual behaviour in a group of urban females.
Indian journal of psychiatry, 2011 Sexual behaviour of 75 normal married females was studied. Most of them had a healthy attitude to sex. Frequency of sexual activity decreases with age and duration of marriage. Median frequency for 21-30years age was 2/week, for 31- 40years was 1.4/week and for 41-50 years was 0.5/week.
A K, Agarwal, B, Kaur, S, Kumar
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, 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
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The effect on cardiovascular risk factors of migration from rural to urban areas in Peru [PDF]
During the 20 years of political violence in Peru starting in the late 1970’s, Ayacucho, an Andean department, was one of the most severely affected areas.
Miranda Montero, Juan Jaime
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Private Security and Public Space: New Approaches to the Theory and Practice of Gated Communities
European 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
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Agribusiness, 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
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Changing urban geographies through boom and bust periods: gentrification and the suburbanization of poverty [PDF]
, 2016 Major post-industrial cities across Europe and other contexts are marked by growing social-spatial inequalities, with housing liberalization and gentrification limiting low-income households’ housing options.
Musterd, S.; id_orcid +2 more
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The Limits of Polycentrism at the City-regional Scale: The case of Luxembourg
European 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
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Urban decentralization and income inequality: is sprawl associated with rising income segregation across neighborhoods? [PDF]
Existing research shows an inverse relationship between urban density and the degree of income inequality within metropolitan areas; this information suggests that as urban areas spread out, they become increasingly segregated by income.
Christopher H. Wheeler
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Contributions of Landscape Trees in Public Housing Estates to Urban Biodiversity in Hong Kong
, 2014 Public housing estates (PHEs) in Hong Kong, accommodating 3.3 million of the 7-million population, have generous landscape planting in their grounds. The independent tree management regime generates a tree stock that deviates from the general urban-tree ...
Jim, C.Y. +3 more
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