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Tree Species Selection for Urban Forest Development in Yogyakarta City
Jurnal Ilmu Kehutanan, 2013 Urban forest provides two important services for humans i.e., improving air quality and aesthetics. Therefore, tree species selection should consider tolerance of trees to pollutants in urban areas and aesthetic point of view.
Mukhlison Mukhlison
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Syrian refugees in Palestinian refugee camps and informal settlements in Beirut, Lebanon [PDF]
, 2017 Informal spaces often develop on the periphery of cities as a result of the arrival of rural migrants, national and international workers, refugees and others. In Lebanon during the 1950s, Palestinian refugees arrived and settledin tent camps, which were
Chamma, Nasr, Zaiter, Hassan
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Greens in Regulation: Biodiversity Strategy Implementation Across the Golf Industry
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although much of the business and biodiversity literature focuses on extractive industries, we turn our attention to the golf industry. Golf courses occupy millions of acres globally, yet biodiversity strategy implementation across the golf industry remains understudied.
Jordan P. Howell, Jordan Moore
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Connecting Thoughts and Actions: A Managerial Process Model on Circular Business Model Innovation
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Addressing environmental grand challenges such as resource scarcity requires circular business model innovation (CBMI) that enables firms to efficiently close and slow resource cycles through novel activity systems. Drawing on a grounded theory approach based on 59 in‐depth interviews with top managers from Swiss SMEs, we developed a process ...
Fabian Takacs, Karolin Frankenberger
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HETEROGENEITY IN THE HINTERLAND: A TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF OHIO EXURBAN AREAS [PDF]
Located between suburban and rural regions, exurban areas are among the fastest growing regions in the U.S. To better understand exurban changes and their policy implications, we develop a typology of rural-urban places and use statistical methods to ...
Irwin, Elena G., Sharp, Jeff
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the impact of self‐checkout technology implementation on B2B customer shopping behavior using a novel methodological approach that combines propensity score matching with difference‐in‐differences analysis on actual point‐of‐sale transaction data.
Jindřich Špička +1 more
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Contemporary Agriculture, 2017 The purpose of this paper is to analyze relations between seed quality characteristics and the influence of contaminated urban areas on seed quality of sycamore maple trees in different locations across Novi Sad (Serbia).
Kostić Saša +5 more
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Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2010 This paper examines recent developments in migration studies. It reviews literature related to the potential role of internal population movement in the occurrence of schistosomiasis in Brazil and modifies Prothero's typology of population movement for ...
Helmut Kloos +5 more
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The Diversity of Diversity: Implications of the Form and Process of Localised Urban Systems [PDF]
This paper summarises research into localised urban systems which accounts for variations in styles of diversity within multi-cultural cities. New work builds on previous studies in London and Turin.
Sandra Wallman
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Experiments in climate governance – lessons from a systematic review of case studies in transition research [PDF]
, 2015 Experimentation has been proposed as one of the ways in which public policy can drive sustainability transitions, notably by creating or delimiting space for experimenting with innovative solutions to sustainability challenges. In this paper we report on
Hilden, Mikael +4 more
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