Self-rated resilience among young migrants in old Fadama, Accra, Ghana
The main objective of this paper is to explain how resilient a sample of young migrants are to the stressors encountered at the slum through a self-rated level of resilience. Drawing on resilience thinking, the Youth Resilience Framework and Social
Self-employment and local economic performance : evidence from US counties
County ; Economic efficiency ; Economic growth ; Employment ; Entrepreneurship ; Local economy ; Private property ; Self-employment ; United States of America
This article examines examine a dispute over wetland management in suburban New Jersey. Each side articulated distinct understandings of what was and was not vulnerable, backed by emotional appeals partly based in self-interest but that also
encompassed care and concern for others. Each side accused the other of being irrational and immoral, drawing ‘moral microboundaries’ between them. It concludes that participants in a public debate may not simply be pursing self-serving goals, nor might open
This article analyses the impact of the self-evaluated ethnic composition of the place of residence on interethnic contacts and attitudes through the comparison in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. It demonstrates that interethnic relationships
are more common in ethnically mixed ones with some self-reported ethnic minorities and that living in an area with many perceived ethnic minorities does not necessarily increase the probability of having interethnic friends in all four countries
The moral geography is a double-edged sword : explaining farmers' earnings and self-exploitation in community-supported agriculture
Agriculture ; California ; Community-supported agriculture ; Economic rent ; Farm income ; Food production ; Moral economy ; Profit ; Self-exploitation ; Social embeddedness ; United States of America
Aeolian features ; Asia ; Boundary ; Dune ; Geomorphogenesis ; Quaternary ; Saudi Arabia ; Self-organizing behaviour ; Southwest Asia ; Space time ; System dynamics ; United Arab Emirates
of these responses, and is a metric capable of identifying the degree of pattern maturity or self-organization of the aeolian system, and the pathways from which patterns evolve. Synergetic patterns are emblematic of this vast dunescape, whereby transitional
This paper draws upon the case study of Sydney Olympic Park, a self-proclaimed exemplar of both entrepreneurial urban development and sustainability. The paper traces out the functional and institutional changes at the Park in order to read
Carbon economy ; Climatic change ; Community ; England ; Housing ; Leeds ; Post-carbon city ; Self-management ; Sustainable city ; Town ; United Kingdom ; Urban administration
The article draws upon a case study of an embryonic post-carbon initiative completed in early 2013 called Lilac. Based in Leeds, it is the first attempt to build an affordable, ecological cohousing project in the UK. Its three aspects each respond
content of streams can be determined by water hardness analysis. The geology and geomorphology of springs characterise the underground waterflows. The speed of the process of travertine development was measured over a one-year period by a self-produced
Focusing on the history of Zionist colonization of Palestine, the paper illustrates how the encounter with the land fractures the ideological construct of emptiness and foregrounds the ambiguities found at the heart of the self-assured discourse
in the directions and possibilities of social life ; and the phenomenological travel along the anti-/posthumanist lane. The paper concludes with a suggestion of a ‘new humanism’ that avoids the rationalist and self-righteous claims of the old ones but maintains
farm, 13 part-time farm and 100 non-farm households. During the last two decades, three types of part-time farmers occurred: part-time farmers as endangered category, entrepreneurial part-time farmers and self-subsistence part-time farmers. - (IKR)
into the Gulf of Semedela. The concerned area of Gulf of Semedela is an extremely sensitive area with low self-cleaning capacity, which further increases the impact of pollution from the hinterland. - (IKR)
In order to examine the effects of 3 kinds of geotextiles (shade net, non-woven fabrics and straw mats) on road slopes in decreasing runoff and soil loss, a self-made rainfall simulator was calibrated and used in a field experiment on slopes of Jing
revolutionizing institutions and setting them on new trajectories toward self-improvement as some have suggested, GIS development is often merely a part of a broader and historically consistent pattern of policymaking and behavior.
This article analyses the tensions emerging between the proponents celebrating self-management by place-based communities drawing on local knowledge and those favouring the control by central governments and powerful environmental groups
Małopolska is well known as a region of outstanding nationwide natural beauty. It is characterized by a high share of self-sufficient farms and significant fragmentation of fields. A variety of leisure forms and spending free time becomes