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socio-economic systems with potential to cause substantial population displacement. The key concerns in Less Developed …-economic vulnerability and potential outcomes in terms of population displacement or induced migration. So far these relationships are poorly … literature including ecology, environment, and climate change; sociology of migration; anthropology of displacement; and …
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Review of: Internal Displacement in South Asia: The Relevance of the UN’s Guiding Principles Edited by Paula Banerjee …
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has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the last 5 years. In this chapter I document how this escalation of violence has led …
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This paper explores the causes of displacement during civil wars. Recent scholarship has shown that conventional civil … stronger than the other – exhibit different patterns of violence. We hypothesize that, while the mode of violence differs, the … form of displacement should be consistent across the wars: displacement is a tactic of war that armed groups use to conquer …
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This paper explores the relationship between violence and displacement during civil war focusing on two different forms … paper explores the relationship between displacement and violence at the local level in the context of a civil war fought … of population movements (i.e. incoming and outgoing), and two different forms of violence (i.e. direct and indirect). The …
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Through this paper we try to discuss the current situation of the research programme in Spatial Econometrics. This discipline has grown very fast during the last decades, in quantity as well as in quality, developing a wide variety of techniques. The results seem satisfactory although there...
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Starting with an overview on losses due to mountain hazards in the Russian Federation and the European Alps, the question is raised why a substantial number of events still are recorded—despite considerable efforts in hazard mitigation and risk reduction. The main reason for this paradox lies...
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City size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across many countries. One popular explanation for such power-law regularities is in terms of random growth processes, where power laws arise asymptotically from the assumption of iid growth rates among all cities within a...
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It has been claimed that the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and its improved version the ensemble EMD (EEMD) are computation intensive. In this study we will prove that the time complexity of the EMD/EEMD, which has never been analyzed before, is actually equivalent to that of the Fourier...
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This paper discusses an innovative approach towards addressing and measuring quality of living environments. It introduces the model which talks about quality of living environments via quality of time spent in a resident's daily routine. The aim is to elucidate an approach which can help...
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