Postmodernist arguments are used in this paper to suggest local government structures which contain units of varying sizes. To define community in terms of welfare maximisation in this way would allow the combination of economic, social, physiological and psychological welfare. It is argued that such...
which could be overcome by completing further research on middle and low-income countries with different political structures for example. Due to the focus on sustainable consumption interventions and evidence of the local government role, most of studies reviewed were empirical cases. Therefore, while...
Much of the existing literature that has aimed to identify factors that deter migration or encourage staying has been based on the use of quantifiable measures of socio-demographic characteristics, household composition, socio-economic position, and the social context or local opportunity structures (e....
3.2 Formal definition Formally, let P={p1,p2,…,pN} be a set of N local descriptors (feature vectors) extracted from an image, where pi∈Rd and d is the dimensionality of the feature vector. The set P can be built and described using any relevant image feature useful for the given ap...
Demographic Change and Local Community Sustainability: Heritagization of Land Abandonment Symbols Ivan Murin, Jan Horský, and Ján Aláč Introduction In this chapter we bring the reader to the village and municipality of Horný Tisovník in the south of Central Slovakia. It ...
A growing number of studies have used stylized network models of communication to predict brain function from structure. Most have focused on a small set of models applied globally. Here, we compare a large number of models at both global and regional le
We will consider that two links of a given node are part of one community if the neighbours they reach lead to significantly overlapping neighbourhoods21. This definition is directly relevant to epidemic dynamics as links within communities do not lead to new potential infections. We call ...
subjects. However, if the heritage is a relevant tourist attractor, profits are not directly generated by the management of the asset, but significant impacts are still produced on the local economy. This is the reason because the local community have to guarantee anyway the enjoyment of its ...
13.4. The virtual connection allows nongeographically contiguous small and medium-size consumers to constitute an energy community and participate in the market since, in many countries, the existing regulation does not allow LEC to own its distribution network. Sign in to download full-size image ...
First, immigrants that do not own land and are already socially and politically marginalized in community structures are de jure excluded from the scheme, even if they “would like to participate because we like bees and it is lovely to participate in the meetings” (2, Santa Rosa, 20.09....