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Ocean Acidification as a Governance Challenge in the Mediterranean Sea: Impacts from Aquaculture and Fisheries
Despite the progress in the international and regional governance efforts at the level of climate change, ocean acidification (OA) remains a global...
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Configurational analysis of conditions influencing customers’ channel switching intention in omnichannel retailing: a fuzzy-set analysis
This research examined the interplay among personal factors, namely channel lock-in, cross-channel synergy, attribute-based decision making (ADM);...
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‘Fourth Places’: the Contemporary Public Settings for Informal Social Life and Interaction
This chapter brings together the findings from the previous two chapters linking them back to the existing theories. It argues that social encounters...
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‘Is it okay to have a child?’: figuring subjectivities and reproductive decisions in response to climate change
In this article, we engage feminist theorisations of figurations as “performative images that can be inhabited” (Haraway 1997/2018) to trace some of...
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The Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Existing Patterns of Migration
There is a growing consensus that sea-level rise will have a significant influence on future patterns of population mobility. Populations across the...
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What makes older adults happier? Urban and rural differences in the living arrangements and life satisfaction of older adults
Given the dynamically diverse outcomes of biological, behavioral, and environmental factors, the heterogeneity of the subjective well-being of older...
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Climate Change, Politics and the Transformation Challenge
Politics is a key factor in determining the societal construction of risk, its use and the consequences of that use. Societal transformation is...
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Observations on the Theorized Conditions That Support Informal Social Interactions in New Designed Public Spaces
This chapter employs empirical material to examine five well-accepted and theorized conditions in sociology that are considered to support informal...
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Determining an Adequate Population Density to Achieve Sustainable Development and Quality of Life
Sustainable development has many environmental, economic, social, and cultural dimensions. However, Urban Design is considered a critical pillar in...
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The Speaking Refugee
In this chapter, the voice of refugees is foregrounded through discursive-ethnographic methodologies. The Speaking Refugee gives prominence to the...
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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Nonprofit Cataract Surgery Services: A Social Return on Investment Approach at the Mexican Institute of Ophthalmology
Cataract is the primary cause of treatable blindness in low- and middle-income countries. Due to limited resources, the public sector often fails to...
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A Climate of Risks
This chapter delves into the identity and character of climate and climate change risks. These risks are socially constructed and, as such, respond...
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Unraveling the dynamics of urban desirability: a multi-faceted analysis of large cities
In the context of rapid urbanization, the challenge of accommodating growing populations while enhancing urban desirability has become a paramount...
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Global COVID-19 Pandemic: A Strategic Opportunity for Operationalizing One Health Approach in Zimbabwe
One Health (OH) is an integrated and holistic approach for prevention and control of infectious diseases at the human-animal-ecosystem interface. The...
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Affective Immediately: Reading the Semiotic Landscape of COVID-19 in Lincoln, Nebraska
For this chapter, I raise social psychologist Margaret Wetherell’s metaphorical sledgehammer, breaking down the affective-discursive practices which...
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The socio-spatial expression of the metropolitan structure of Abuja and the impact of vehicular emissions on the ambient environment
Urban transport is a major human activity that emits pollutants into the ambient air and this is of major concern to the environment and health. The...
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Causes and consequences of environmental degradation along the Shatt Al–Arab River: a coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) perspective
The Shatt Al-Arab River region (SARR) in Iraq was an economically important area for food production. By the 1970s the environment of this region had...
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Greenwashing
Greenwashing is a misleading environmental communication practice used to create a positive image in the eyes of stakeholders when in fact the...
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Theoretical Framework
An ethical reading of the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters...