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Browsing by Subject "Geography, Planning and Development"
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(2024-01)This study introduces a systems-theoretic methodology to meet the requirements of a major national infrastructure for safety and security-based design by enhancing the alignment of stakeholders and actors in the project. Safe-by-Design (SbD) is an ... -
(2021-03)In this article, we focus on whiteness as an historically shifting phenomenon by analysing Brazilian recent emphasis on Icelandic ancestry, demonstrating the intersection of whiteness, class and ethnicity. A small group of Icelanders were among the ...
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(MDPI AG, 2020-03-30)The benefits of fractional snow cover area, as an additional dataset for calibration, were evaluated for an Icelandic catchment with a low degree of glaciation and limited data. For this purpose, a Hydrological Projections for the Environment (HYPE) ...
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(2024-05)In the original publication of the article, under the section “Conclusion”, the citation information was incorrectly given as “see also Bååth, 2022a” but it should have been “see also Bååth, 2018; 2022b”. The original article was updated.
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(2021-05-06)The authors would like to make the following corrections about the published paper [1]. The changes are as follows: (1) Replacing affiliation 3: Department of Built Environment, Aalto University, 00076 Aalto, Iceland with: Department of Built Environment, ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2021-08)Glaciers have been an increasingly studied topic in the ecosystem services (ES) literature, with 6 multiple scientific studies affirming a critical and diverse contribution to human well-being. 7 However, the literature to date on glacier ES has lacked ...
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(2021-06-30)The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of factors that undermine sustainable management of renewable resources by identifying and analyzing the main drivers and dynamics involved, with a focus on the role of corruption perceptions and its ...
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(2021-07-31)Entrepreneurial education offers valuable opportunities for teachers to foster and enhance creativity and action competence, which are also important for sustainability education. The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) is a leader in the ...
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(2022)This article explores migrants’ language learning experiences in two small language communities in the West Nordic Region. We provide a comparative perspective based on an online survey and ethnographic interviews conducted in Iceland and qualitative ...
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Longer, broader, deeper, and more personal – the renewal of labour history in the Nordic countries (2023-04-20)This article deals with the recent developments of labour history in and about the Nordic countries. We identify patterns, problems and possibilities in these recent developments in the field–roughly within the last two decades. Our main source of ...
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(Elsevier BV, 2018-08)Consolidation of the fishing industry worldwide is an issue heavily debated among scholars. Many economists have argued for its necessity, while others – such as sociologists, anthropologists and geographers – have pointed out negative effects of ...
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(2021-09-21)The mental health of young labor immigrants (YLI’s) is a public health issue that has become notably more apparent during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It is well established in the literature that most YLI’s are young and healthy when they arrive in the host ...
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(2022-01-26)In this paper, we examine the relationship between housing prices and municipal amalgamations. Due to consumer preference for access over amenity value, there is a spatial disparity of housing prices, refiecting the value of land in specific locations. ...
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(2024-03-11)This study aims to explore the challenges and opportunities associated with measuring and assessing sustainability impacts and investigate digitalization’s role in addressing these challenges. The study gathers stakeholders’ perspectives on strategically ...
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(2021-12-08)The worlds of education and learning have for the last few decades been characterized by reactions to the detrimental human impact on the environment, which is measured on such a scale that scholars now refer to the present epoch as the Anthropocene. ...
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(2021-03-02)Under dynamic efficiency, a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension scheme helps the current generation of retirees but hurts future generations because they are forced to save via a return-dominated scheme. Abandoning it is deemed welfare-improving but typically ...
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(2024-12)Walking is essential for environmentally friendly transport, vibrant street life, and public health. Due to the short distances, small cities should have great potential for walking; however, the car still dominates in many places. Moreover, whether ...
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(2022-12)The management of plastic packaging waste is advancing quickly, and new strategies are being implemented worldwide for better resource recovery. To assess the environmental benefits of new ways of handling plastic packaging waste, we need to first ...
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(2021-11-19)The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the European Union’s strategies both set goals for solving environmental challenges faced by societies and communities. As part of solving these challenges, both the UN and the EU stress the ...
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