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A threatened world city: the benefits of protecting London from the sea
Penning-Rowsell, Edmund; Haigh, Nick; Lavery, Sarah; … - In: Natural Hazards 66 (2013) 3, pp. 1383-1404
future of protecting London from flooding from the sea. An economic analysis, within a Benefit-Cost framework complemented by … measures to maintain and enhance the existing defences, and to seek to restrain the growth of risk in the Estuary and in London …
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Market Forces Shaping Human Capital in Eighteenth Century London
Justman, Moshe; Beek, Karine van der - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
, The London Tradesman (1747), to demonstrate the responsiveness of apprenticeship in mid-eighteenth century London to …
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Experiences of Turkish Cypriot, Kurdish and Turkish Youth in Creating Transnational Social Spaces in London Schools
Simsek, Dogus - In: Border Crossing: Transnational Working Papers 2013 (2013) 1302, pp. 15-27
-ter TCKT) living in London and explores the perceptions of young people about their school life, mainly focusing on secondary … of transnational social spaces by TCKT youth. The homogeneity of schools in London pre-vents them from forming identities …
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Hard times, new directions? The impact of local government spending cuts on three deprived neighbourhoods. Final report.
Brady, Anne Marie; Fitzgerald, Amanda; Lupton, Ruth - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014
out in this study to establish how residents living in some of the most deprived neighbourhoods of London have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938556
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Solar energy and urban morphology: Scenarios for increasing the renewable energy potential of neighbourhoods in London
Sarralde, Juan José; Quinn, David James; Wiesmann, Daniel - In: Renewable Energy 73 (2015) C, pp. 10-17
Amongst academics and practitioners working in the fields of urban planning and design, there has been an on-going discussion regarding the relationships between urban morphology and environmental sustainability. A main focus of analysis has been to investigate whether the form of cities and...
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Port cities and urban wealth: between global networks and local transformations
Hein, Carola - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 339-361
) in London, Tokyo, Hamburg and Philadelphia, examines these ports as places of economic resilience and innovation - and …
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Sustainable cities: problems of integrated interdisciplinary research
Shmelev, Stanislav E.; Shmeleva, Irina A. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 4-23
European cities, London and St Petersburg, are analysed from the point of view of integrative policies and instruments applied …
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Techno-optimism: progress towards CO2 reduction targets in transport: a UK and London perspective
Banister, David; Hickman, Robin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 24-47
. Technology on its own will not be enough. This message is then reinforced with a more local perspective in London where … considerable efforts are being made to make London a sustainable city, but even here where opportunities are present, it is the …
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Ambition, Human Capital Acquisition and the Metropolitan Escalator
Gordon, Ian - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012
analyses of BHPS data on long term progression showing that only the more ambitious gain from residence in the extended London …
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Work, income and stability: The late Victorian and Edwardian London male clerk revisited
Heller, Michael - In: Business History 50 (2008) 3, pp. 253-271
The article questions the view that the economic position of male clerical workers in London was deteriorating over the … London, the article argues that there is evidence to query this portrayal of decline. Salaries appear to have increased …
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