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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"regional migration"”.
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The determinants and consequences of regional migration
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Three essays on social dynamics and land-use change: framework, model and estimator
Simulations of future regional land-use change help planners and policymakers understand how scenarios with alternative public policy and investment choices will play out in the future, especially in conjunction with different economic and demographic trends. Models used to simulate land-use change …
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Potassic alteration of Cambrian-Ordovician sandstones and Precambrian basement rocks of the North American midcontinent
… of Mt. Simon Sandstone in UPH-3 occurs on a regional scale in the Upper Midcontinent area. Here, two widespread zones of K-feldspar and sericite occur. A K/Ar date of 276 $\pm$ 10 Ma (Permian) was obtained on sericite from one locality in Iowa, which is separated by 300 km from Hole UPH-3. …
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Breaking the Loop: Climate-Driven Urbanism for America's Climate Migration Hubs
… trajectories. This thesis examines the climate migration feedback loop, where climate migrants relocate to urban areas with carbon-intensive development patterns, inadvertently accelerating the climate change driving their displacement. Through analysis of three contrasting metropolitan …
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Global frameworks, local realities: migrant resettlement in the Russian Federation
The thesis explores the 'return' migration and resettlement experience of members of ethnic Russian and Russian speaking migrant populations who over the period 1991-2000 left their homes in the former republics of the Soviet Union to resettle on the territory of the Russian Federation, their …
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An exploratory study of the social and economic experiences of Zimbabwean youth immigrants in Cape Town
… they migrate to Cape Town and the impact of this migration on Zimbabwe's social development. The immigrants in Cape Town, in Khayelitsha and Summer Greens were interviewed. The study was carried out with a sample of seventeen immigrants. It adopted a qualitative, exploratory approach using a …
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Environmental equity in southeast Louisiana: oil, people, policy, and the geography of industrial hazards
… minority or low-income. This research examined regional migration patterns over the last decade to explore why people move into potentially hazardous areas. Statistical analysis reveals that historic segregation patterns are a primary factor in most population movement. Additionally, populations …
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A system dynamics approach to rural transportation planning in less developed countries
… Irrigation, Fertilizer, Mechanization and Regional Migration) to determine which variables most significantly influence regional behavior. These tests showed that a tacit acceptance (i.e., not explicitly incorporating the above factors in a model) of the availability of these resources …
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Migration of the elderly in New South Wales : patterns and implications
… the residential mobility and patterns of inter-regional migration of elderly people in New South Wales (NSW). The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), landlocked within NSW as it is, is treated as an integral part of the study region. The age group 55 years and over is preferred to an older one …
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Migration of the elderly in New South Wales : patterns and implications
… the residential mobility and patterns of inter-regional migration of elderly people in New South Wales (NSW). The Australian Capital Territory (ACT), landlocked within NSW as it is, is treated as an integral part of the study region. The age group 55 years and over is preferred to an older one …
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Depositional environments and diagenesis, Interlake Formation (Silurian), Williston Basin, North Dakota
… in the Williston Basin. </p><p> Local migration of subenvironments and regional migration of major environments on these islands produced the complex mosaic of lithotypes seen in the Interlake. Paleogeographic reconstructions of the Interlake suggest that the islands underwent several …
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Essays on spatial economics and trade
… what the local and aggregate dynamic effects of regional migration flows are. To address this question, I combine a panel SVAR framework with a shift-share instrument based on lagged birth rates to analyze the short-, medium-, and long-term impacts of a 1% increase in migration to U.S. commuting …
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The Power of the Voice: Listening to Mexican and Central American Immigrant Experiences (1997-2010)
… cultural, political, and individual facets of migration. Moreover, the narratives discussed here use discursive strategies of orality to emphasize the power of voice and, by showcasing immigrant voices, provide a social space for imagining alternative communities that expose "contact zones" in …
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Essays on driving factors of migration: From regional to metro perspectives
… workers (Florida, 2014). The issue of migration has important policy implications. On the one hand, policy makers actively use region-based policies to attract business activities and high-productivity worker groups that are critical for a region’s future growth. For example, the smart …
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Causes and Mechanisms of Remagnetisation in Palaeozoic Sedimentary Rocks - a Multidisciplinary Approach
… NE Rhenish Massif. Three individual incremental regional fold tests across the area show a unique and distinctive variation in timing of remagnetisation relative to the age of folding. The remagnetisation is postfolding in the South and of synfolding origin in the North of the area. Consequently, …