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The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies
Urban Studies, 2021 This commentary advances the ‘hack’ as an urban concept. While the hack transcends existing literatures on the digital and informality, it is a distinctive concept and is being used systematically in new domains. I situate the hack conceptually, outline its empirical and methodological value and propose a framework to research the urban hack ...
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HACKING THE CITY A SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT MODE OF FIELD WORK
European Journal of Geography, 2012 Guerilla Gardening, Reclaim the street, Adbusting and others are characteristic forms of temporary appropriation of public spaces. Those have become a global trend.
Romy HOFMANN, Martina MEHREN
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Sex in the City: Breeding Behavior of Urban Peregrine Falcons in the Midwestern US.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) were extirpated from most of the continental United States by widespread use of the pesticide DDT in the 1960s.
Isabel C Caballero +3 more
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The Hackathon Phenomenon [PDF]
, 2015 date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 ...
Briscoe, G, Mulligan, C
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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Digital Innovation: The Hackathon Phenomenon [PDF]
, 2014 date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000date-added: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000 date-modified: 2015-03-24 04:16:59 +0000This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, CreativeWorks London Hub ...
Briscoe, G
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research analyses the carbon footprint of the NGO Madre Coraje, using an integrated methodology that combines the calculator provided by REAS (Red de Economía Alternativa y Solidaria) Navarra and the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). It quantifies emissions across the three scopes of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, evaluating both direct and ...
José Fernandez‐Serrano +2 more
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Mapping the unseen: making sense of the subjective image. [PDF]
, 2009 It used to be thought that photography, as a kind of automatic mapping, could provide an objective view of the world. Now we are aware of the power of framing and other interventions between what is 'out there' and what is captured in depiction.
Boyd Davis, Stephen
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The precautions of clinical waste: disposable medical sharps in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2009 This article deals with recent changes in UK guidance on clinical waste, in particular a shift to disposable, single-use instruments and sharps. I use interviews conducted with nurses from a GP practice and two clinical waste managers at alternative ...
A Pruess +26 more
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How Changing Narratives About the Future Shape Policymaking for the Long Term
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short‐term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? Our article examines the role of narratives in changing expectations about the future as a key driver of intertemporal policymaking. In light of an
Pieter Tuytens, Charlotte Haberstroh
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