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Collective and network sociality in an urban village [PDF]
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Entertainment and media in the ubiquitous era, 2008 Our ongoing research program explores the communicative ecology of urban residents and the way these findings can inform design innovation of interactive web, mobile and geospatial applications and local communication services. This paper presents results of a study within this program that seeks to develop a better understanding of the way residents ...
Marcus Foth +3 more
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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past growth in the global organic market has been concentrated in high‐income countries, while in middle‐income countries such as Serbia the organic market remains nascent and characterized by a sparse assortment of organic products, high retail premia and limited evidence on consumer preferences and their drivers.
Milan Tatic +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Urban renewal provides opportunities to improve urban transport structures during the process of improving built environments. It is necessary to clarify the impact of different elements of the built environment on travel behaviors in the context of ...
Le Yu, Xiaodan Li, Qin Luo
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Crises of capitalism and deficits of democracy: lessons from Vancouver’s Olympic Village development [PDF]
, 2013 Mega-events like the Olympic Games remain widely recognized as key opportunities for cities to accelerate large-scale urban development projects through the construction of extensive Olympic Villages complexes.
Jay Scherer
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Urban Development and Regeneration in Ancoats, Manchester: From Industrial Suburb to Urban Village
Angles, 2002 Located on the north eastern edge of Manchester city centre, Ancoats was the first industrial suburb in the world when early steam-powered mills were built in the late Eighteenth Century. After it was severely hit by industrial decline over the course of
Aurore Caignet
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2022 Urban daylight significantly affects the physical and mental health of urban residents. Many previous studies focused on how outdoor daylight conditions affect indoor daylighting of buildings, whereas the design of outdoor daylighting conditions, which ...
Wenjian Pan, Juan Du
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American 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
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