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Urban water management: optimal price and investment policy under uncertainty [PDF]
Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply augmentation policies in the presence of increasing water scarcity and uncertainty over future dam inflows.
Brownlowe, Nathan +3 more
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A natureza (dos) nos fatos urbanos: produção do espaço e degradação ambiental
Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, 2001 Este trabalho pretende discutir a relação entre o processo de construção do espaço urbano, a segregação socioespacial e a degradação ambiental. A urbanização crescente da população no Brasil tem feito com que os problemas decorrentes desse processo ...
Gislene PEREIRA
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli +2 more
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An Assessment of Pakistan’s Urban Policies, 1947–1997 [PDF]
What public policies and programmes have been followed in dealing with mounting urban crisis in Pakistan over the past 50 years? This question has been addressed in the present article.
Mohammad A. Qadeer
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Family-friendly policies for rural working mothers [PDF]
, 2009 For working parents, family friendly work policies like paid sick days, flexible time, or medical insurance can reduce work-family conflict and lead to less absenteeism and higher productivity.
Glauber, Rebecca K.
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What is the Place of Night-time in the Urban Policy of a French Intermediate City?
Articulo: Journal of Urban Research, 2016 Metropolisation is a widespread phenomenon, defined by special mechanisms operating on spaces in cities of all sizes. The process reorganizes not only space but also time, particularly night-time.
Sandra Mallet, Céline Burger
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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The effectiveness of urban policies facing spatial polarization [PDF]
This paper intends to find whether cities can significantly exert an influence on their future and partly break away from the constraints with which they have to cope.
Oliver Thomas
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Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, responsibilities and citizenship [PDF]
, 2009 The purpose of the joint research project Urban Policies and the Right to the City: Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship, launched by UNESCO with UN-HABITAT in March 2005, is to contribute to meeting the MDGs and reducing poverty by identifying good ...
Alison Brown, Annali Kristiansen
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe +2 more
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