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Developing Research Base Learning in Urban Sociology Class [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This article aims to describe an introduction research base learning in the urban sociology class. The idea came after evaluating answer sheet from previous year students.
Arofah, L. (Lumban)
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Place effects on environmental views [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
How people respond to questions involving the environment depends partly on individual characteristics. Characteristics such as age, gender, education, and ideology constitute the well-studied social bases of environmental concern, which have been ...
Colocousis, Chris R.   +2 more
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Monitoring the Urban Tree Cover for Urban Ecosystem Services - The Case of Leipzig, Germany [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Urban dynamics such as (extreme) growth and shrinkage bring about fundamental challenges for urban land use and related changes. In order to achieve a sustainable urban development, it is crucial to monitor urban green infrastructure at microscale level ...
E. Banzhaf, H. Kollai
doaj   +1 more source

Los estudios de sociología urbana en América Latina, un estado del arte: la situación en Argentina: 1957-1976 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
El artículo aborda el surgimiento de la sociología urbana en Argentina entre 1957 y 1976. Se estudian los centros relacionados con los estudios urbanos, los profesionales que estuvieron a cargo de la materia sociología urbana y el perfil ...
Paiva, Verónica
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Sharing and Space-Commoning Knowledge Through Urban Living Labs Across Different European Cities

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2022
While the growing commodification of housing and public spaces in European cities is producing urban inequalities affecting mostly migrant and vulnerable populations, there are also manifold small-scale neighbourhood-based collaborative processes that ...
Doina Petrescu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach

open access: yes, 2005
The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition especially in transportation/land-use planning and economic geography.
Alexander C   +31 more
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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Automatized spatio-temporal detection of drought impacts from newspaper articles using natural language processing and machine learning

open access: yesWeather and Climate Extremes, 2023
Droughts are expected to increase both in terms of frequency and magnitude across Europe. Despite the multitude of adverse effects these disasters impose on social-ecological systems, most impact assessments are constrained to single event and/or single ...
Jan Sodoge   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wearable sensors for multifactorial personal exposure measurements – A ranking study

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2018
Individuals are simultaneously exposed to multiple environmental stressors during their daily life. Studies of adverse health effects and their etiology as well as recommendations for a healthier life style demand for an assessment of multifactorial ...
Maximilian Ueberham, Uwe Schlink
doaj   +1 more source

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