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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Socio-economic indicators"”.
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Combining theoretical concepts and tools: mapping human deprivation in the City of Cape Town
… and vulnerability, and the practical tools of socio-economic indicators and geographical information systems (GIS) are interrogated and critiqued for their usefulness for mapping human deprivation at the city scale. Poverty, chronic poverty, and vulnerability are three integral concepts of the …
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Green vs. sustainable: analyzing and expanding LEED (leadership in energy and environmental design)
… investigates the possibility of including new socio-economic indicators in green building rating systems in order to promote innovative practices in the building planning, design, construction and operations by introducing a broader definition of sustainability in the building industry. It …
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Urban building energy modeling and retrofit design as a means to inform effective public policy : Boston case study
… By combining the findings of the simulation with socio-economic indicators such as income level and ownership type, this thesis will examine how to best implement the selected building retrofit strategies. Of particular interest, is the idea of an annual adoption rate for a particular strategy and …
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Subjective well-being in the European Union = Szubjektív jólét az Európai Unióban
… in the European Union. Using subjective indicators for measuring well-being is a relatively new approach in social sciences. The dissertation summarized the methodological questions about the happiness approach and interpreted several important findings for economics. Besides, the …
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Lietuvos regionų darbo rinkos socialinė-ekonominė analizė 2004 – 2014 m /
… out a dynamic analysis of the labor market, socio - economic indicators on the labor market assessment to identify key factors influencing the level of unemployment and wages developments in the regions in 2004 – 2014 time. The third part was analyzed the different institutions of …
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Using Geovisual Analytics to investigate the performance of Geographically Weighted Discriminant Analysis
… in the 2004 US presidential election and five socio-economic indicators. This research builds on existing techniques to interpret the GWDA output and provides additional insight into the processes driving the classification. It also demonstrates a practical application of geovisual analytic …
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Regional Inequalities in Mortality in Bulgaria // Регионални неравенства в смъртността в България
… between regional mortality variations and socioeconomic factors. Materials and Methods: Data on deaths and number of inhabitants in all 28 regions are obtained from the national statistics. The average aged-standardized mortality rates are estimated with direct age-standardization using the …
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Gyvenimo kokybė ir jos vertinimo ypatumai /
… of objective and subjective quality of life indicators; 4. To reveal the opinion of the country’s population, assessing the current quality of life and potential opportunities and risks in the future. Research methods: systematic review of scientific literature, comparing the results of …
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Migrant labour in contemporary South Africa
… In addition community level factors such as socio-economic indicators and local service delivery are derived from Census and Community Survey and merged into NIDS in order to provide a rich dataset. Descriptive analysis is followed by the estimation of a biprobit model of migration and …
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Citizen Security And Democratization In Latin America: Implications Of Law Enforcement Reforms And Demilitarization
… to democracy. After briefly covering some socio economic indicators of Latin America, this inquiry applies an original demilitarization scale of law enforcement to the citizen security institutions in the countries mentioned above. This is the first empirical measurement of law enforcement …
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The Success & Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux
… explore ‘conventional’ explanations, including socio-economic indicators (i.e. demand-side factors), and institutional as well as party organisational features (i.e. supply-side explanations). The analysis suggests that demand for right-wing populist parties is relatively constant across the …
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Case study review of advanced water metering applications in South Africa
… four areas: technical, environmental, social and economic. The technical evaluation is based on the systems complying with the relevant national metering standards and good metering practice, the environmental evaluations on battery disposal and water savings and the social evaluation on broad …
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The Effects of financialisation on development in South Africa
… and emerging markets. With roots embedded in the economic theory of neo-liberalism, the concept of financialisation can be broadly defined as the growing importance of financial instruments and the financial sector. A large body of empirical work in developed markets has generally indicated a …
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A Cross-Country Investigation of International Vessel-Source Legislation and Oil Pollution Compliance Practices: The Case of Nigeria and the United States.
… synthesizing the environmental, regulatory, and socio-economic issues related to compliance with vessel-source legislation in just two specific jurisdictions without getting trapped by the bunching idea. Therefore, the focus of this research has been to investigate the compliance practices of two …
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Sustainable development: Why is it not delivering on its promises?
… use of natural resources. Several decades on, economic growth continues unabated at the expense of natural capital – as evidenced by natural resource depletion, biodiversity loss, climate change and further environmental issues. Why is this happening and what can be done about it?<br/><br/>This …
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Drought in Southern Africa: structure, characteristics and impacts
… between drought and environmental and socio-economic indicators such as soil moisture, stream flow, lake levels, vegetation indices, maize yields and agricultural productivity. Strong negative soil moisture anomalies occur over the region during drought with a maximum over Zimbabwe …
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Relationship between socio-economic status and cardiovascular disease in black South Africans living in a rural and an urban community
… to be due to CVD by 2020. Studies have shown socio-economic patterning in the prevalence of risk factors for CVD, including obesity,smoking and lipid profile. In developed countries, the association between socio-economic status (SES) and CVD risk factors is negative, with a higher prevalence …
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Secondary Mortgage Markets & Place-Based Inequality: Space, GSEs and Social Exclusion in the Philadelphia Region
… this dissertation analyzed the political-economic history of the secondary mortgage market to ground a contemporary analysis of the impact of secondary mortgage market activity on neighborhood change in the Philadelphia region at the turn of the 21st century. At the turn of the 21st …
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Towards an African perspective of urban sustainability: evidence from Ghana.
… sustainable development challenges which include socio-economic inequalities, increasing poverty and informal settlements, urban sprawl, natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, and climate change impacts. Therefore, assessing the interactions between urbanisation and sustainable …
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Towards supporting cohesive decision making across water, energy and food through understanding challenges in Malawi
… to sustain human life. In 2011, the World Economic Forum identified water, energy and food (WEF) security as a global risk, and the WEF nexus concept was first recognised and described in time for the Bonn conference in Germany the same year. The increasing pressures on our planet have …
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