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The Effect of SNAP Purchasing Power on Diet Quality

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits millions of eligible low‐income Americans by increasing access to food, helping to reduce food insecurity. Previous studies have documented that the geographical variation in local food prices leads to significant differences in SNAP's purchasing power.
Farah Khan, Augustine Denteh
wiley   +1 more source

Ação e reação: Intervenções urbanas e a atuação das instituições no pós-desastre em Blumenau (Brasil)

EURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 2013
Em novembro de 2008, no Vale do Itajaí, na Região Sul do Brasil, ocorreu um desastre associado à precipitação extrema de chuvas, que atingiu 1,5 milhões de pessoas, com 135 mortos e cerca de 80.000 desabrigados e desalojados.
Pedro R Jacobi, Sandra I Momm-Schult, Noemia Bohn   +2 more
doaj  

Sustainable City Strategies for Strategic Digital City Project in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Context

Land
Cities demand strategic projects and sustainable indicators to improve the citizen quality of life. The research objective investigates how sustainable city strategies in Curitiba, Brazil, align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Denis Alcides Rezende, Luis André Wernecke Fumagalli, Hugh Bartling, Godswill Udoh Okon, Andrés Ruiz Gallego   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap, Becca B. R. Jablonski, John Bovay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Author Correction: Measuring sensitivity to social distancing behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

Scientific Reports, 2023
Constantine E. Kontokosta, Boyeong Hong, Bartosz J. Bonczak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Management for Building-Sector Decarbonization: Focusing on the Role of Low-Carbon Policies

Buildings
The building sector is a major source of anthropogenic carbon emissions worldwide. While existing studies have extensively explored the socioeconomic and technological impacts on carbon emissions generated from building operations, few have assessed the ...
Jianxin Tang, Pengpeng Yang, Kai Tang, Sibo Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

De la planificación estratégica al marketing urbano: hacia la ciudad inmaterial

EURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 2010
El presente artículo hace una revisión de cómo han realizado distintos tipos de ciudades su posicionamiento en el sistema global mediante el estudio de casos signifcativos.
Andrés Precedo Ledo, José Javier Orosa González, Alberto Míguez Iglesias   +2 more
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The Problematization of Compact Urban Development: A case study of the municipality of Aarhus' Master Plan '09 [PDF]

, 2010
This project aims at investigating how the dominating discourses in the municipality of Aarhus’ Master Plan ’09 conforms to state-of-the-art knowledge about urban structures’ influence on travel behavior and by which mechanisms of power this knowledge ...
Mikkelsen, Christoffer Gerner
core  

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source