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While enormous resources have been devoted to responding to concerns about climate change, most of the climate change initiatives to date have focused on mitigation, the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs), to avoid the most extreme projected climate change impacts. Progress in addressing...
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This paper contrasts two dominant views of migration. One involves movements to arbitrage disequilibrium in labor markets, while the other takes a more urban economic view of equilibrium in which on-going migration is seen as a response to changing demands for non-traded amenities as incomes...
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Child trafficking is a long-lasting social issue in China. We argue that abducted children increase as an indirect and unintended consequence of improved urban infrastructure, such as the construction of expressways that facilitate the expedient transfer of victims between cities. To identify...
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In this work, we present a gridded dataset about land cover, population density, real estate, and transportation in 192 worldwide urban areas representing together 800 million people. While population density and land cover are secondary data extracted from the GHS-POP and the ESA CCI databases...
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should more precisely focus on integration as a dynamic concept that does not only affect agglomeration and growth, but which …
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