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“Working the Pages”: Entrepreneurship Strategies of Venezuelan Trans Women Refugees Who Enter Sex Work in Brazil During COVID‐19

Gender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1986-1996, September 2026.
ABSTRACT The Venezuelan refugee crisis has displaced nearly 8 million people, with transgender and queer refugees among the most marginalized groups. This paper explores the intersecting precarity and entrepreneurship of Venezuelan trans women refugees who became sex workers in Brazil during COVID‐19.
Yvonne Su, Tyler Valiquette, David J. Kinitz, Clara de Oliveira Cunha   +3 more
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Livable City/Unequal City: The Politics of Policy-Making in a « Creative » Boomtown

Revue Interventions Économiques, 2008
There is a tendency in contemporary North American urban policy-making to uncritically connect specific ideals of urban ‘livability’ with efforts to cater to the whims of the so-called ‘Creative Class.’ The paper engages with this tendency through an ...
Eugene J. McCann
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Harnessing Human Mobility Data for Applied Economic Research: Current Knowledge, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities

Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 1763-1788, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper reviews how large‐scale mobility data can enhance economic analyses, highlighting its contributions to understanding travel behavior, labor markets, social interactions, and health outcomes. We discuss its advantages over traditional mobility data sources, which include real‐time location information and fine spatial resolution ...
Cristina Connolly, Sandro Steinbach, Mike Vo, Xibo Wan   +3 more
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Geography and ‘The New’

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This Intervention reflects on the multiple, contradictory and ambivalent relations human geography has with ‘the new’. Some sort of relation with the new is an inescapable and necessary part of all practices of knowledge generation. Newness, whether it be an empirical finding, an idea, a concept or an approach, can fuel the interest, wonder ...
Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell, David Bissell, Beth Greenhough, Harriet Hawkins, Jenny Pickerill, Nathaniel Télémaque, Tatiana Thieme   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policy Choices and Individuals' Attitudes From the Perspective of Imaginary Future Generations—A Discussion Experiment With City Officials on Carbon Neutrality

FUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In this study, we demonstrate the effects of adopting “imaginary future generations (IFGs),” which has been proven to be effective for generating futurability in individuals, on policy choices and individual attitudes toward environmentally friendly behavior.
Keishiro Hara, Yutaka Iwasaki, Yukari Fuchigami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livable city: An approach to pedestrianization through tactical urbanism

Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2019
Many ancient cities around the world were known with their livability. However, these cities started to lose this feature, when vehicles became prior to pedestrians who lost their sense of place, as many negative impacts came along.
Hend H. Yassin
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Singapore Water Budget: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Water Resources Research, Volume 62, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Urbanization and climate change profoundly impact hydrological processes and the associated water budget, challenging sustainable water management. In this study, we use a distributed mechanistic ecohydrological model adapted for urban environments to quantify changes in the hydrological budget components in response to urbanization, as well ...
Y. Lin Xu, N. Meili, M. Chen, J. Ren, S. S. Mahto, S. Galelli, G. Manoli, A. Paschalis, S. Fatichi   +8 more
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Computing consensus: Language ideological work in LLM‐assisted deliberative democracy

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, August 2026.
Abstract This article examines how the digital platform Polis and its experiments with large language models (LLMs) reconfigure democratic participation through a particular vision of consensus. Through analysis of media coverage of Polis and developers' public discussions of the platform, I argue that developers reframe consensus from a discursive ...
Janet E. Connor
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Research on the Impact of Climate Change on Livability and Adaptation Strategies in Typical Regions

Gaoyuan qixiang
Climate change has significant implications for the livability of cities.Analyzing climate change trends and developing corresponding adaptive strategies can enhance the livability of typical regions and mitigate the adverse effects of climate change.In ...
Lingyu ZHOU, Lixin MAO, Kaiqiang WANG, Shuyu WANG   +3 more
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Survival First: How Citizens Prioritize Competing Climate‐Health Risk Countermeasures Under Fiscal Constraints

Risk Analysis, Volume 46, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT When governments must allocate limited resources among competing climate‐health countermeasures, citizen risk priorities determine political feasibility—yet whether those priorities translate into fiscal support remains poorly understood.
Katsuya Tanaka, Kazuhide Akaishi
wiley   +1 more source