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Limited research has been completed on the relationship between ethnicity and views within a country on the environment …, pressures on the environment and its management. Some recent New Zealand research has found no significant difference in …
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to an increase in the case of judgment on the existence of opportunities in the environment, and in the case of the …
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residents become increasingly removed from production agriculture. An expanding gap exists between public perceptions of the … policy makers understand the beliefs and values of the populace. Collecting information about perceptions of agriculture … strata were surveyed by telephone. The survey included 13 questions eliciting perceptions regarding the impact of agriculture …
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finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing … issues ranging from health, environment, and nutrition, to dispute resolution, implicit racism, and false convictions. The …, abilities, attitudes, and perceptions finds that they differ in profound ways from what is typically assumed. The result is that …
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finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of savings and poverty, to eyewitness identification and sentencing … issues ranging from health, environment, and nutrition, to dispute resolution, implicit racism, and false convictions. The …, abilities, attitudes, and perceptions finds that they differ in profound ways from what is typically assumed. The result is that …
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subjective perceptions of poverty trends, and what may explain this divergence? The objective of this short dissemination note is … has translated into substantial poverty reduction according to objective measures based on household survey data. At the … same time, many people do not feel that the poverty situation has been improving in their country or community, and this is …
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definition and framing in public policy and that of perceptions about poverty – the study investigates how heads of local … authorities in Israel perceive the causes of poverty and how these perceptions are related to policy options for combating poverty …. The findings reveal the importance of the leaders' perceptions of the causes of poverty and value orientation in …
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dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … implications, and has, in aggregate, increased poverty. …
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(english) This paper proposes to critically examine the United Nations projections on urbanisation. Both the estimates of current trends based on national data and the method of projection are evaluated. The theory of urban transition is used as an alternative hypothesis for projections....
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For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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