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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Peripheries"”.
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Safeguarding REDD green peripheries
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity, as well as one of the largest failures faced by the market. Despite projections of climate-related reductions in global GDP of up to 20% and studies indicating compromise of the world’s water, food, and ecosystem services, …
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Sociotechnical matching: Furniture manufacturers at the peripheries of Chinese economic reform
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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The syntax of comparative constructions : operators, ellipsis phenomena and functional left peripheries
Adopting a minimalist framework, the dissertation provides an analysis for the syntactic structure of comparatives, with special attention paid to the derivation of the subclause. The proposed account explains how the comparative subclause is connected to the matrix clause, how the subclause is …
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Making the Modern Slum: Housing, Mobility, and Poverty in Bombay and its Peripheries
This dissertation examines the formation of urban poverty and slums which have long stigmatized South Asian cities. It focuses on the emergence of markets in housing through the 19th and early 20th centuries in Bombay primarily, and Karachi and Aden secondarily. It is the first historical study of …
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Centering peripheries : warning systems and disaster risk reduction planning on the island city
Warning systems play a crucial role in disaster events on islands. They enable timely communication of risk, bolstering capacity and counterbalancing the negative force exerted by hazards, exposures, and vulnerabilities that threaten island communities. Disasters frequently result in the breakdown …
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Governing The Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction Of The South And West After The American Civil War
… for social reorganization at the nation’s peripheries. In both the postbellum South and West, U.S. officials sought to govern indigenous peoples and the formerly enslaved by reorganizing their labor, land, and social relations, thereby undermining struggles for social and political …
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Progress in the peripheries: improvement and national image in the fictions of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1780 - 1830
This thesis examines the relationship between improvement and national image in Irish, Scottish and Welsh novels published between 1780 and 1830. Given the social, economic, and physical impacts of the agricultural and industrial revolutions in this period, the project focuses on texts that …
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States, agency, and power on the ‘peripheries': exploring the archaeology of the later Iron Age societies in precolonial Mberengwa, CE 1300-1600s
… and their centres are traditionally viewed as ‘peripheries' where resources that made them prosperous were extracted. The inhabitants of such ‘peripheries' are presented as if they possessed little or no agency. One such area is Mberengwa, a gold-rich area situated between the edges of Mapela, …
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Assessing the implementation of neoliberal policies in the city of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality: challenges of service delivery
… on the townships and informal settlements (urban peripheries), specifically focusing on the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The City of Johannesburg has faced the challenge of protest action against the local government proportionally more often compared to other municipalities. …
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Running Out of Space: Ethno-federalism, capitalist restructuring, and the political economy of peri-urbanization around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
… uses and livelihoods, turning the spaces in the peripheries of the city into sites of tension, conflict, and political instability. While the issue of land governance has been a central area of research in the political economy of Ethiopia, the existing literature offers few insights on the …
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Decentering Russia: Art and Empire, 1900-1973
… theorization of art historical and geographical peripheries in late imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, from the last decades of tsarist rule through the Soviet Union’s ascent as a leader of global decolonializing movements (1900-1973). Previous scholarship on cultural practices in the Soviet …
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Fear and Fruition: Bhairava in Text, Art, and Practice
… from; how he functions both centrally and at peripheries; and how his ongoing, polythetic body of living religious practice can be understood as constructively potent and relevant. </p><p>By addressing Purāṇic textual materials, contemporary iconography, and ethnographic fieldwork conducted in …
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Understanding landscape dynamics using spatial metrics: A case of Maseru City Council (MCC), Lesotho
… into fertile agricultural land along the urban peripheries emanating from internal and international migrations. The study indicates that there has been an increase of 928 Ha in the built up land between 2005 and 2016, while at the same time the agricultural has decreased by 820 Ha at the …
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Situações de risco e vulnerabilidade social: desafios, perspectivas e implicações para a Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), em periferias urbanas
… vulnerability classes EJA located in urban peripheries, because of an experience we live when youth and adult educator in a school located on the outskirts of Mandacaru (Wet Edge) neighborhood. Besides the report of the experience, was also included in this work the theoretical concepts of …
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Quasar formation in the context of large scale structure
… elliptical host galaxies, whereas those on the peripheries reside in spiral hosts. About 20% of investigated quasars reside between two galaxy clusters, which are possibly at an early stage of merger. Of these quasars, those that are in the subset with host galaxy data all reside in very large …
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ΥΓΕΙΟΝΟΜΙΚΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΔΗΜΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΕΣ ΣΥΝΙΣΤΩΣΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑΚΗΣ ΚΑΤΑΝΟΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΞΕΛΙΞΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΝΟΣΗΛΕΥΤΙΚΩΝ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ. ΣΤΑΤΙΣΤΙΚΗ ΚΑ...
… MORPHOLOGY AND THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE VARIOUS PERIPHERIES OF GREECE. FOR THESE REASONS IT IS IMPOSED TO TAKE MEASURES (AND THESE ARE PROPOSED), WITH WHICH THE NUMBER OF NURSING PERSONELL WILL BE INCREASED, THE NURSING SERVICES WILL BE IMPROVED AND WILL BE DISTRIBUTED EVENLY IN THE VARIOUS …
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The politics of decentralisation and indigenous revivalism in Sulawesi, Indonesia
… authority from the centre (Jakarta) to the peripheries. Contrary to expectations, enhanced public participation often takes the form of indigenous (adat) revivalism, a highly contested and contingent process linked to intensified political struggles and conflicts throughout the archipelago. …
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Subjecthood and Sovereignty among the ‘Real’ and ‘Imagined’ Pirates of a ‘Golden Age’, 1690–1705
… the history of piracy to settlements at the peripheries, in which it foregrounds Euro-Asian entanglement and the role of local publics in defining the boundaries between pirate and nation. Central to the analysis is the contemporary usage of the phrase the ‘noise of pirates’, which …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… socio-spatial dynamics occurring in urban peripheries are reshaping what is collectively understood by working-class identities, their boundaries and markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class …
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The synthesis of liquid crystalline materials for organic semiconductor device applications
… end-groups are situated at the peripheries of the molecular structure, allowing the potential fabrication of multi-layer, organic semiconductor devices due to the insoluble, cross-linked polymer network obtained after polymerisation of the analogous reactive mesogens (RMs).
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