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REGIONAL INCOME INEQUALITY AND URBANISATION TRENDS IN CHINA: 1978-2005 [PDF]

open access: yes
A long-standing economic literature has delivered rich empirical evidence on the relationship between economic growth and income inequality or urbanisation, since Simon Kuznets’ pioneering work on the inverted U curve hypothesis.
Alexandra SCHAFFAR
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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urbanisation and development in South Africa: economic imperatives, spatial distortions and strategic responses

open access: yes, 2015
This paper outlines the experience of urbanisation in South Africa, which is now one of the most populous and urbanised countries in Africa. For over a century, urbanisation has been a source of controversy posing dilemmas for successive governments and ...
Turok, I.
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Urbanisation, asthma and allergies [PDF]

open access: yesThorax, 2011
Differences in asthma in urban and rural environments were first reported from Germany in 1965,1 followed by many reports of higher rates of asthma symptoms in urban than rural environments around the world including Africa,2 Asia3–5 and Papua New Guinea.6 Authors have suggested that wealth, lifestyle, housing and urban environmental exposures may ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Embedding Chemistry and Pharmacy Into Sustainability

open access: yesAngewandte Chemie International Edition, EarlyView.
Chemistry and pharmacy provide products and processes that are indispensable for our high living standard. To understand their relationship with sustainability is important to allow them to contribute to sustainability in a sustainable manner. An integrated overview of green, circular, and sustainable chemistry and pharmacy is given and how they have t
Klaus Kümmerer
wiley   +1 more source

Seamless Urbanisation and Knotted City Growth: Delhi Metropolitan Region

open access: yes, 2011
Historical evidences show that urbanisation and city development process go through various stages. However, in Asian countries such as India, the population growth surpassed the economic growth contradicting the Western stages of urbanisation and city ...
Taubenböck, Hannes   +2 more
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Urbanisation and state formation in the ancient Sahara and beyond

open access: yes, 2020
"This volume explores a series of linked themes that have wide relevance in world archaeology: sedentarisation, urbanisation and state formation. In this opening chapter we review some of the key background to recent debate on these themes and identify ...
Mattingly, D. J. 1958-   +1 more
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Radiation‐Absorptive Heat Transport in Buoyancy‐Driven MHD Nanofluids Flow With Cross‐Diffusion and Chemical Interaction Effects Over a Vertical Moving Plate

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates the Soret–Dufour cross‐diffusion effects on radiation‐absorptive unsteady free‐convection of magnetized nanofluids (TiO2–water$$ {\mathrm{TiO}}_2\hbox{--} \mathrm{water} $$ and Cu–water$$ \mathrm{Cu}\hbox{--} \mathrm{water} $$) flow over a vertical moving permeable plate.
B. Prabhakar Reddy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La participation de personnes vieillissantes dans les comités logement à Montréal : composer avec l’exclusion territoriale

open access: yesLien Social et Politiques, 2017
La possibilité de vieillir sur place, pour une catégorie de personnes d’un certain âge et disposant de faibles revenus, se trouve fragilisée dans certains quartiers centraux montréalais.
Julien Simard
doaj   +1 more source

Historical birth records from 1896 to 1944 from the Basel maternity hospital, Switzerland, reveal significant obstetric selection pressures

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality have declined dramatically during the last century. Historical data are therefore important sources to study the evolutionary selection pressures related to childbirth and how they have fluctuated over time.
Mirella Woodert   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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