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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Socioeconomic change"”.
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Conflicting Perspectives of Socioeconomic Change and the Pan - Africanist Ideal of Self-Determination, 1912 - 2002
This dissertation interrogates the debate on socioeconomic change in Africa post 1912. It examines the leading currents of thought on what is now popularly termed as development, starting with New Institutional Economics (NIE). Focusing on NIE, it contrasts recent policy implications maintained in …
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To undo the conquest: nationalism, socialism and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1936
… essentially asks: what accounts for limited socioeconomic change during and after the Irish Revolution? It argues that nineteenth-century Ireland emerged as a partial colony, that is to say, an integral part of the United Kingdom with parliamentary representation, but unlike England Wales and …
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Socioeconomic Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure at Different Spatial Scales
… contributes to the research in the area of socioeconomic and distributional implications of transportation investments by: (i) studying the effects of transportation infrastructure development on economic growth and income inequality at a macroscopic level and (ii) developing a methodology …
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Assessment of Mississippi Landfill Capacity in Relation to Waste Generation and Land-Use Constraints
… challenge in Mississippi as population trends, socioeconomic change and regional development continue to place pressure on existing landfill capacity. This thesis examines waste generation and disposal patterns from 2000 through 2022 across Mississippi counties, with projections extending to …
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The Sociolinguistic Correlates of Dialect Contact and Koineisation in Medini Arabic: Lenition and Resyllabification
… investigation that focuses on variation and change in Medini Arabic (Saudi Arabia). Data in the form of sociolinguistic interviews were collected from 58 speakers, and analysed quantitatively within the framework of the quantitative variationist paradigm using Rbrul. The study investigates …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
… over centuries of curricular, cultural, and socioeconomic change. Current theories and practices in higher education, specifically general education, reflect a misunderstanding of both the purpose of education in a democracy and the role of the liberal arts, specifically rhetoric, in …
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An Exploration of Social and Rural Entrepreneurship and the Role of Youth Entrepreneurs: A Case of Stellenbosch Local Municipality
Socioeconomic problems are a burden both globally and for the African continent, which is characterised by poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, and inequality. These challenges also face South Africa, where poverty rates are significantly higher in rural than urban areas. Since 1990, various …
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Rail Rebound: The Impact of Freight Rails on Regional Development in the United States, 1970-2010
… especially freight rails, on population change and socioeconomic development are not well understood. This study fills the gap in the literature by examining the demographic and socioeconomic impacts of freight rails using county-level data in the continental United States from 1970 to …
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The importance of the ‘urban’ in agricultural-to-urban water transfers: Insights from comparative research in India and China
… the conversion of agricultural land, and wider socioeconomic change. In this context, this thesis argues agricultural-to-urban water transfers are only partially explained by the institutional mechanisms of water policy and the politics of allocation, and that the movement of water from …
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A History of the Ovambo of Namibia, c 1880-1935
… character. This thesis examines processes of socioeconomic change over a period when two separate external forces impinged on the isolated floodplain: firstly merchant capital, followed by colonial rule which favoured mining capital. In 1884, Ovamboland was nominally divided between Portuguese …
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Vending Vice: The Rise and Fall of West Virginia State Prohibition, 1852--1934
… a rapid form of industrialization that changed its socioeconomic and political environment. These changes enhanced a philosophical shift from a laissez-faire, Gilded Age sensibility defined by intense political and social localism to an outlook more closely aligned with Progressive-era …
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Embodied Virtual Reality: The Impacts of Human-Nature Connection During Engineering Design
… behaviors through design ideas, i. e., tracking changes in nature-based design choices. The design study consisted of three groups of engineering undergraduate students which were given a case study and plan review: a VR group embodying a bird (n=35), a self-lens VR group (n=34), and a control …
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The dietary habits and health of contemporary Saudi families : a sociological study in the city of Riyadh
This study investigates diet and dietary habits, changes in food practices and nutrition in contemporary Saudi Arabia. A survey was conducted using the questionnaire method on a sample of 310 participants drawn randomly from four different quarters of Riyadh: Al-Worood, Al-Rabwah, King Saud …