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Showing 1 to 20 of 155 for “"Social impacts"”.
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Essays on the Social Impacts of Climate
… to date, it has been difficult to measure the social impact of climate, so the scale and scope of its influence on populations remains mostly theoretical. This dissertation integrates data and quantitative methods from climate science, economics and political science to develop new techniques …
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The Social Impacts of Flood on the Canadian Prairies
… are costly environmental hazards, which create social stressors due to impacts on all human uses of land and water resources. Humans are adaptable, but their capacity for adaptation is constrained by various social factors, including social inequality. This research project asked: “How do gender …
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Chinese gated community : degree of openness and the social impacts
… Chinese gated community on their negative social impacts by directly borrowing arguments from the studies of Western gated communities, especially from the US counterparts. However, the socioeconomic connotation attached to gated communities in the US is not necessarily applicable to gating …
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Growth strategy for hybrid organizations : balancing economic, environmental, and social impacts
… of for-profit companies with the commitment to social good of non-profit organizations. This structure enables them to address social problems in an economically sustainable manner and to capitalize on consumer demand for responsibly-made products. While hybrids must strike a delicate balance to …
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The viability of perceptual analysis in predicting social impacts : a case study
… represented a unique opportunity to compare two impacts analogous in all respects but time. Because one impact had already occurred and the other had not yet begun, the accuracy of social impact predictions could thereby be assessed. Through the use of self-administered questionnaires, the local …
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Dynamic pricing in shared mobility on demand service and its social impacts
… other basic strategies, though it has negative impacts on system performance, such as increasing congestion level and reducing capacity provided. We also consider possible regulation schemes on such profit-driven operations, and find that schemes related to the total reduced distance in system …
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The Social Impacts of Street-involved Youths’ Participation in Structured and Unstructured Leisure
… research has focused on street-involved youths’ social relationships. As some scholars have suggested that leisure is inherently social, my research sought to understand whether participation in structured and/or unstructured leisure activities influence street-involved youths’ social …
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The social impacts of changes in the spatial and technical division of labour
… in the division of labour thus have profound social impacts. This thesis brings together a body of work which aims to develop a conceptual framework for understanding and modelling the underlying dynamics of change in the division of labour in order to shed light on these social impacts.
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Outdoor Education Opportunities for Middle School Students: Academic and Social Impacts of Adventure Programs
<p>This study examines components of outdoor adventure programs for middle school students, using a school with a successful program as a model. Outdoor education is often left out of these years for financial and safety reasons, however the benefits of adventure programs are both measurable and …
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From negotiation to auction : Land-Conveyance Reform in China and its institutional and social impacts
… planning decision-making process and its social impacts on the deindustrialization process, specifically, the economic and social condition of working staff of SOEs. I conducted an empirical study in Beijing to investigate both institutional and social impacts. The LCR has caused an …
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The environmental and social impacts of modes of transport: a case study of Chilanga peri-urban
The environmental impacts of transport are the major concern of the world today. The world has reached its advanced stage were there is advanced technology. Different modes of transport are used today especially motorised transport. With increase of transport use, many studies world over are being …
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Three essays on the welfare and social impacts of external shocks and public policies in Mexico
In this thesis I examine the welfare and social consequences associated with one economic shock and two policy interventions in Mexico. I use non-experimental approaches that exploit increased data availability as well as in-depth knowledge of the institutional background and show how germane …
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Social impacts of climate change and occupational heat stress and adaptation strategies of mining workers in Ghana
… workers’ health, safety, productivity, and psychosocial well-being in occupational settings. In the hot and tropical regions of developing countries, long hours of physically demanding work, coupled with inadequate adaptation policies to climate change, increases the occurrence of heat-related …
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The social impacts of college sport events in the local community’s quality of life: Understanding residents’ perceptions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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From user-generated text to insight context-aware measurement of social impacts and interactions using natural language processing
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Carrots and Sticks in Green Moves: Assessing the Mobility, Environmental, Economic, and Social Impacts of Sustainable Mobility Solutions
… policy instruments have emerged. However, the impacts of many of these mobility solutions remain largely unexplored. This dissertation investigates the multifaceted impacts of four transportation policy instruments: congestion pricing on ride-hailing services in Chicago, car ownership …
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Prenatal Opioid Use and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: A Review of the Neurophysiological, Neuropsychological, and Behavioral/Emotional/Social Impacts in the Pediatric Population
… neuropsychological, and the behavioral/social/emotional impacts on infants, toddlers, and school aged children who were prenatally exposed to opioids with or without the diagnosis of neonatal abstinence syndrome. Providing a deeper understanding of the possible short- and long-term …
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Byzantium and the Question of Colonial Identity: An Examination of the Immediate Social Impacts of the Fourth Crusade on the Thirteenth Century Byzantine Roman World
This dissertation argues that the conquest of Constantinople and Greece in 1204 by western European knights was a form of colonialism, whereby a colonial enterprise was established in the former lands of the Byzantine Roman Empire by the participants of what modern scholars refer to as the Fourth …
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Identifying the health, wellbeing and social impacts in older adults using nature-based projects: a case study of care farming and community gardening interventions in Greater Manchester.
… with the motivating factor for attendance being socialisation, while health and wellbeing improved as a biproduct. These include feeling valuable and included, and reduced thoughts of anxiety and isolation. With a pandemic illustrating their resilience and resourcefulness. While impacts were …
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