Wellbeing, Space and SocietyMobility in later life is important for maintaining independence, autonomy, self-reliance and social engagement. Although reduced mobility and engagement in everyday activities are often associated with lower well-being, this relationship is not ...
Louise Meijering +4 more
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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Demographic change and regional competitiveness: The effects of immigration and ageing [PDF]
, 2007 The demographic profile of a region is usually seen as a slowly changing background phenomenon in the analysis of regional competitiveness and regional growth. However, regional demographic change can have a significant impact on regional competitiveness
Poot, Jacques
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Will Migration Worsen Urban Safety? Empirical Studies in Shanghai [PDF]
, 2015 Poverty, crime rates increase and decrease in social security are often considered as “Urban Disease” during the process of urbanization and large amount of migrants’ influx into cities.
Tan, Jing, Ren, Yuan
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Challenges and opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A layered vulnerabilities perspective
SSM: Qualitative Research in HealthThe COVID-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging implications on the academic community and there have been numerous commentaries on the effects of the pandemic on qualitative health research.
Louise Meijering +7 more
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Disasters and the Health of Urban Populations [PDF]
Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 2005 The average number of reported disasters worldwide, based on International Federation of the Red Cross criteria, increased from an average of 428 per year between 1994 and 1998 to 707 per year between 1999 and 2003.1 Although definitions of disasters vary, most definitions concur that disasters may be attributed to natural, technological, or human ...
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Migration and housing among the Negro population of Asbury Park : a survey / by the Urban Colored Population Commission, State of New Jersey; prepared for the Commission by Joseph A. Clarke [PDF]
, 1945 Under assignment from Joseph P.
Clarke, Joseph A. +1 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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Classical models of urban population density. The case of Barcelona Metropolitan Area [PDF]
In this paper, we study the classical functional forms density-distance and its relation with the suburbanization for the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
Jordi Suriñach-Caralt +1 more
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