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The special issue proposes "urban peace" as a way of thinking about policy responses to the dynamics of crime, violence, and exclusion that are associated with illicit economies. This approach builds on the notions of connectedness, proximity and trust between individuals, different segments of...
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drug debates. It then takes a step into the literature on peacebuilding, examining the possible positioning of drugs and … development debates relative to the field of peacebuilding studies. It concludes by highlighting the numerous areas of overlap … between the new drugs and development debates and existing peacebuilding discussions. …
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Global sustainable development depends on the capacity of natural, social and economic systems to adapt to external stimuli. However, building this adaptive capacity in the developing world context of sub-Saharan Africa will require substantial investment in these systems, which most countries...
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This paper investigates the effect of institutional quality on sustainable development.Institutional quality is assumed to determine the (perceived) risk in the face of which oil and mining firms determine their level of investment in physical and natural capital. Since these two types of...
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This paper treats about the problem of nitrogen oxides formation in the process of natural gas combustion. The analysis of the influence of selected combustion parameters on the concentration of NO, N2O and NO2 in the combustion products was done. From many factors determining NOx formation two...
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