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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Mafias' in the Waterscape: Urban Informality and Everyday Public Authority in Bangalore

open access: yesWater Alternatives, 2014
This article investigates the phenomenon of Bangaloreʼs urban 'water mafias', operators who extract and deliver groundwater to scores of informal residential areas in Indian cities. The term 'mafia' here is treated as a semantic area of situated meanings
Malini Ranganathan
doaj  

Les offres de sols urbains dans la plaine de Léogâne en périphérie de Port-au-Prince

open access: yesÉtudes Caribéennes
This article discusses the urbanization of Léogâne plain through the mechanisms of urban soils’ productions. Located in the district bearing the same name and 32 km distant from Port-au-Prince, this plain was well known for its sugarcane yields.
Bezunesh Tamru   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Devastated Landscape in urban Periphery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The subject of devastated landscape in urban periphery context is in my thesis presented as art solution for art activity. Individual devastated landscapes are then closely defined by actual urban periphery.
Kubínová, Tereza
core  

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Kajian Kualitas Lingkungan Permukiman di Daerah Pinggiran Kota Kasus di Desa Ngestiharjo, Yogyakarta

open access: yesMajalah Geografi Indonesia, 2016
ABSTRAK Penelitian ini mengkaji kualitas lingkungan permukiman di daerah pinggiran kota khususnya di Desa Nges-tiharjo, Kecamatan Kasihan, Kabupaten Bantul.
Prittaningtyas Ekartaji   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Santiago de Chile through the Eyes of Jane Jacobs. Analysis of the Conditions for Urban Vitality in a Latin American Metropolis

open access: yesLand, 2020
The urban planning ideas proposed by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s remain relevant to this day, promoting a perspective on the relationship between urban morphology and the community that takes into consideration the experiences of the people themselves in ...
Luis Fuentes   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Striving for normality : Agency, citizen participation and intergroup belonging on the urban periphery of Helsinki [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This article examines how the inhabitants of a culturally diverse suburban estate in Finland strive for meaningful encounters in their lives. The focus is on Kontula, a residential working-class district on the eastern periphery of Helsinki, which has ...
Tuominen, Pekka
core   +1 more source

Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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