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The pandemic caused by novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is generating a high number of cases and deaths, with negative effects on public health and economic systems. One of the current questions in the contemporary environmental and sustainability debate is how high air pollution and...
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In this study, an inexact stochastic fuzzy programming (ISFP) model is proposed for land-use allocation (LUA) and environmental/ecological planning at a watershed level, where uncertainties associated with land-use parameters, benefit functions, and environmental/ecological requirements are...
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Special industrial zones are favored over scattered industries from an environmental management perspective, but poor management can lead to conflicts. This paper presents an analysis of the environmental conflict that arose between the state, society, and industry stakeholders in an industrial...
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the idea of continuing economic growth. In recent times the financial collapse of October 2008 has given rise to yet … another set of pleas from corporations and politicians alike to restart the growth machine. The transition to renewable energy … growth will be curtailed being set. It is possible that the irrational insistence on endless growth as a non negotiable axiom …
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Discussions on how to define, design, and implement sustainable development goals (SDG) have taken center stage in the United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an important area for SDGs to address. Many proposals have...
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migration. The results include the following: (1) The distribution of population, population density, GDP, and GDP growth are …The spatial distribution of China’s rapid growth in population and economic development is uneven, and this imbalance … leads to migration. However, the literature concerning migration in China has been primarily focused at the provincial scale …
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While it is still a matter of global dialogue whether and how migration will feature in the post-2015 framework …, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We … remittance-intense migration to include the increasing diversity of migration patterns and related commodification services, the …
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This article is about the work of museums in constructing the intangible cultural heritage of migration and diasporas … to the intangible cultural heritage of migration to Europe and argue that by recording, documenting, safeguarding and …
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they experience the risks and promises of transnational labor migration in gendered and culturally specific ways. …
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The impacts of environmental change and degradation on human populations, including the possibility of sharp increases in the number of people considered “environmental migrants” have gained considerable attention. Migrating communities may try to distribute their members along particular...
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