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City marketing - a significant planning tool for urban development in a globalised economy [PDF]

open access: yes
In our days it is a fact that what is projected as the ‘image’ of a city, can be more important than the reality of the city itself, in shaping visitors’, investors’, and even its own inhabitants’ opinion of it.
Alex Deffner, Christos Liouris
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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

A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

GIS and urban design [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Although urban planning has used computer models and information systems sincethe 1950s and architectural practice has recently restructured to the use of computeraideddesign (CAD) and computer drafting software, urban design has hardly beentouched by ...
Batty, M   +3 more
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Examining pathways by which socioeconomic instability in adolescence influence sexual health during emerging adulthood in an agricultural setting in California

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the longitudinal impact of socioeconomic instability on teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) diagnosis among adolescents and young adults (AYA) living in an agricultural region and examines pathways including supportive family and social structures, decision making autonomy in romantic relationships ...
Marie C. D. Stoner   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

Technological Composition and Innovation Factors in Inventive Yangtze River Delta: Evidence from Patent Inventions

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Patents as proxy for technological trends is well noted. The rapid increase of patents in China, however, has aroused debates on its technological progress: ‘few original innovations’ are produced in advanced areas, and true ‘breakthroughs’ are ...
Lingyue Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of Job Strain on Occupational Access to Firearms and Firearm‐Related Suicide Among US Workers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Firearm‐related suicide rates are notably high among workers such as police officers and farmers. One risk factor is occupational access to firearms, but other occupational characteristics, such as job strain, are less understood.
Victor A. Soupene   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers to family planning use amongst the urban poor in Pakistan

open access: yes, 2004
This paper examines the determinants of family planning service use and the barriers in accessing family planning services among urban poor women in Pakistan.
Hennink, Monique, Stephenson, Rob
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