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Impacts of deforestation on the incidence of diseases in the Brazilian Amazon

Saccaro, Nilo Luiz; Mation, Lucas Ferreira; Sakowski, … - 2016

The limited knowledge about the effect of deforestation on human health is an important gap for environmental and health management in Brazil and worldwide. In order to assess its occurrence and magnitude, we performed a panel analysis, linking data on deforestation and reportable diseases by...

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Linking weak and strong sustainability indicators : the case of global warming

Rennings, Klaus - 1997

, the integration of damage cost modules into a broader methodological framework of strong sustainability is recommended. …

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Discrimination, narratives and family history : an experiment with Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children

Barron, Kai; Harmgart, Heike; Huck, Steffen; Schneider, … - 2020

We measure the prevalence of discrimination between Jordanian host and Syrian refugee children attending school in Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do...

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The effect of early childhood education and care services on the social integration of refugee families

Gambaro, Ludovica; Neidhöfer, Guido; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2020

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This … paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting regional … parents' integration. We find a significant and substantial positive effect, in particular on the social integration of …

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Urban accessibility and spatial segregation in Brazilian cities : a configurational perspective

Barros, Ana Paula; Medeiros, Valério Augusto Soares de; … - 2017

their relative degree of accessibility/integration to the city as a whole. The study searches to verify to what extent such …, also known as Space Styntax, which allows quantifying the configurational variable by means of the so-called "integration …

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Social distance, immigrant integration, and welfare chauvinism in Sweden

Goldschmidt, Tina; Rydgren, Jens - 2018

Populist radical right-wing parties across Europe garner support for welfare chauvinistic promises to limit government spending on immigrants and focus on natives' welfare instead. However, most research on the so-called immigration-welfare nexus does not study welfare chauvinism but instead...

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Gender role changes and their impacts on Syrian women refugees in Berlin in light of the Syrian crisis

Habib, Nisren - 2018

Gender roles of Syrian women started to shift in 2011, in light of the Syrian conflict. This shift was a response to the difficult situations which Syrian women faced inside Syria as well as in the neighboring countries to which they fled in the attempt to find safer living conditions. However,...

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Energy and the environment

Walker, Ian J. - 1992

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Trade and environment

Siebert, Horst - 1973

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Learning about environmental damage : implications for emissions trading

Kennedy, Peter W. - 1997

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