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In recent years, the largest Polish cities have experienced intensive suburbanization processes. People migrate to … neighbourhoods. Spontaneous and dispersed suburbanization processes (urban sprawl) have many negative consequences that might become … suburbanization processes in potential suburban zones of the largest Polish cities. The results of the evaluation indicate that in …
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Suburbanization in the U.S. between 1910 and 1970 was concurrent with the rapid diffusion of the automobile. A circular … suburbanization. The model incorporates a number of driving forces of suburbanization and car adoption, including falling automobile …. According to the model, 60 percent of postwar (1940-1970) suburbanization can be explained by these factors. Rising real incomes …
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Rural and urban development in sustainable context is a complex process that requires an improvement of the existing situation and a removing of the dysfunctions. Over time, the rural area was not addressed as much as urban area, rural analysis is often fragmentary explained and incomplete...
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This paper examines the actual problems of social and economic development of big cities. To assess the efficiency of this development, we have made a methodology, based on a system dynamics approach which meets the modern requirements. One of the main elements of the methodology is a system...
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The concept of “bioeconomy” or “green economy” is currently highly debated because it is considered to be essential for the future of the world economy. This concept seeks to find both practical solutions applicable in international affairs development environment and long-term...
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I test Bates' view that trade across ecological divides promoted the development of states in pre-colonial Africa. My main result is that sub-Saharan societies in ecologically diverse environments had more centralized pre-colonial states. I use spatial variation in rainfall to control for...
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Since its origin, ecotourism development has been at the centre of controversial and heated debates within the environmental and scientific society. On one hand, it has been considered as a model of responsible and sustainable tourism with the capacity to guarantee the conservation of the...
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international order relied on the respect of the human rights and the ecology. …
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Money is being portrayed as temporal access to energy and a new methodical approach to the energetics of the human economy is introduced.The economic evolution of world system energetics is put into the historical focus of all global monetary civilization, reaching back to Sumerian city...
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In the recent years the topic about pollution of environment is quite popular. Many countries organize the government policy taking into account environmentally friendly policy. Maybe because of big share of the world pollution the USA organized not only the emission market, but also the RIN...
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