The study found that three out of four hazardous waste landfills were in communities with black residents comprising at least 26 percent of the population and whose family incomes were below the poverty level.6 “Toxic Waste in the United States” energizes the movement The first national U.S....
The study identified education, religion, exposure to malaria messages, wealth, region, place of residence, community-level poverty, education and exposure to malaria messages as factors associated with the knowledge of malaria prevention. Addressing these factors through targeted interventions, such as ...
with the courts acting as another check on arbitrary power. They also thought it was important to have a federal system where states could exercise power and prevent a national demagogue from centralizing it. There’s a lot of this tension in the way they drafted the Constitution, as they ...
Lustig, Nora (2011): "Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: What do we gain and what do we lose? An introduction to the JOEI Forum on multidimensional poverty", Journal of Economic Inequality 9 (2): 227-234.Lustig, N.: Multidimensional indices of achievements and poverty: ...
Such social structures are described as violent because they result in avoidable death, illness, and injury [3]. Structural violence occurs on a continuum, linking invisible, normalized structural harms, like poverty and hunger, to more overt and visible harm, like intimate partner violence and ...
She was pretty in a daringly demure fashion, like a wicked little Puritan, or a poverty-stricken Cleo de Merode, with her smooth brown hair parted in the middle, drawn severely down over her ears, framing the lovely oval of her face and ending in a simple coil at the neck. Some ...
Fig. 1. Energy poverty research overview. The four main drivers of energy poverty (left box) are embedded in the definitions (right box) in various ways and to varying degrees, explicitly or implicitly. The most commonly used “subjective” or consensual indicator is whether a household says ...
Political Capital reflects the amount of power and influence exerted by leaders to support PA as well as the access to power brokers at local, county, state, and federal levels. The strength and stability of the support of PA by leaders was greater and more stable in the HPAs than the LP...
justifies the need for a critical reflection on a more ethical perspective of large-scale land acquisitions. Therefore, two objectives were set. The first one is to document the role of ethics in large-scale land transactions. Based on the land grabbing literature, authors selected a set of ...
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