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In the 1980s and 1990s, the Bretton Woods Institutions demanded that debt-destressing countries in the Global South introduce free-market systems to improve efficiency and attract investment to key sectors of the economy, including housing.
Akaabre, Paul Boniface
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Embedded Pesticide Use: Exploring the Pesticide‐Land Nexus
ABSTRACT Since the turn of the century, global land grabs, farmland financialization and land‐based food sovereignty movements have returned the land question to the heart of agrarian studies. Meanwhile, abiding interest in pesticides has been reanimated in the face of changes in production, regulation and knowledge of toxicity.
Julie Guthman, Marion Werner
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ABSTRACT Electricity grid infrastructures shape future publics and the contours of political belonging or exclusion, including citizenship. But in fire‐prone, more precariously grid‐connected regions in California, experiments with micro‐ and home nanogrids, subsidized by the state and built in many cases with Tesla products, provide new opportunities ...
Joanne Randa Nucho
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Abstract Surveys of caves of the Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, revealed a remarkable assemblage of exceptionally well‐preserved mummified arthropods, comprising Araneae, Blattodea, Coleoptera and Chilopoda, all of which exhibit high levels of troglomorphism, lacking eyes and showing a number of other adaptations.
Juanita Rodriguez +2 more
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From Instability to Recovery: Mapping Youth Housing Trajectories with Life History Calendar
ABSTRACT Youth homelessness is widely studied, yet little research traces developmental housing pathways across time. This study used a life‐course lens to explore how youth navigate instability from childhood into emerging adulthood, and how connection, structure, and meaning‐making shape recovery.
Thye Peng Ngo, Sara Semborski
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The housing crisis goes to law
Abstract This paper considers how constructions of a ‘housing crisis’ have impacted on judicial consideration of the rights of applicants for social housing and homelessness assistance. Drawing on Bacchi's framework for appreciating problematisations (What's the problem represented to be?) and understandings of housing crisis, we examine how crisis is ...
DAVE COWAN, ALEX MARSH
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The Political Economy of Urban Land Reform in Hawaii [PDF]
In the mid 1960s there were about 22,000 single-family leasehold homes in Honolulu. Dissatisfaction with leasehold led to reform legislation in 1967, allowing lessees to buy leased land. By 1991 less than 5000 lessees remained.
Sumner J. La Croix +2 more
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One of the promising directions in pig feeding technology is the use of functional feed additives based on natural active substances, particularly milk thistle. These additives help stabilize metabolic processes and improve animal productivity.
L. Lenkov +5 more
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Our findings provide novel evidence of wetland buffering signals for storm impacts on agriculture, though only over short spatial ranges. The study highlights the importance of conserving and restoring coastal wetlands near croplands to enhance climate resilience.
Phebe I. Rowland +3 more
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Pastoral leases and non-pastoral land use [PDF]
The paper reviews pastoral lease arrangements across jurisdictions in Australia and the extent to which these affect the emergence of non- pastoral land uses.
Productivity Commission
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