ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO‐ECONOMIC FACTORS IMPACTING ON THE CROPPING INTENSITY OF AN IRRIGATION SCHEME IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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DOI: 10.1002/ird.2427
Abstract: An increase of cropping intensity of irrigation schemes is required to address the challenge of global food security. Socio‐economic factors also have a significant impact on the cropping intensity within an irrigated area. This research… read more here.
Keywords: economic factors; irrigation; intensity irrigation; socio economic ... See more keywords
Effects of Contextual Economic Factors on Childhood Obesity
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DOI: 10.1007/s10995-019-02777-6
Abstract: ObjectivesTo examine the association between changes in contextual economic factors on childhood obesity in the US.MethodsWe combined data from 2003, 2007, and 2011/2012 National Surveys of Children’s Health for 129,781 children aged 10–17 with 27… read more here.
Keywords: economic factors; contextual economic; childhood obesity; factors childhood ... See more keywords
Forest cover and social relations are more important than economic factors in driving hunting and bushmeat consumption in post-frontier Amazonia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108823
Abstract: Abstract Identifying the economic drivers of hunting and bushmeat consumption is crucial for understanding whether economic growth in tropical forest regions can foster poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation. However, studies investigating those drivers have drawn… read more here.
Keywords: hunting bushmeat; bushmeat consumption; economic factors; social relations ... See more keywords
Carbon tax incidence on household consumption: Heterogeneity across socio-economic factors in Thailand
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2019.02.003
Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the short-run welfare effects of a hypothetical carbon tax on households in Thailand. In particular, it sheds light on the association between welfare effects and socio-economic factors other than income. The… read more here.
Keywords: socio economic; economic factors; carbon tax; household ... See more keywords
Economic factors affecting water supply resilience to disasters
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2020.100961
Abstract: Abstract Water supply systems need to be resilient enough to provide people and critical users with reliable water following a disaster. Previous research has shown that four main factors dictate system robustness and rapidity of… read more here.
Keywords: economic factors; water supply; water; finance ... See more keywords
Conceptualizations of suicide through time and socio-economic factors: a historical mini-review
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DOI: 10.1017/ipm.2017.57
Abstract: Objectives Suicide is a complex phenomenon determined by the interplay of an articulated network of factors including socio-economic factors which have a decisive role. This paper investigates the development of the modern conceptualization of suicide… read more here.
Keywords: conceptualizations suicide; economic factors; economic cycles; time ... See more keywords
Anatomies of Revolution. By George Lawson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 296p. $74.99 cloth, $25.99 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592720000298
Abstract: From Egypt to Europe, 2010). Within this context, it is debatable whether the authoritarian Egyptian state ofMubarak had any power to control labor emigration, and even if it is possible to hypothesize that Egypt was… read more here.
Keywords: george lawson; economic factors; anatomies revolution; cambridge ... See more keywords
Impacts of environmental and socio-economic factors on emergence and epidemic potential of Ebola in Africa
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12499-6
Abstract: Recent outbreaks of animal-borne emerging infectious diseases have likely been precipitated by a complex interplay of changing ecological, epidemiological and socio-economic factors. Here, we develop modelling methods that capture elements of each of these factors,… read more here.
Keywords: risk; economic factors; impacts environmental; ebola ... See more keywords
Prediction ability of vector species, environmental characteristics and socio-economic factors for malaria risk in Sub-Saharan African Countries.
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DOI: 10.1080/09603123.2020.1745763
Abstract: Malaria remains a major public health problem, causing 435,000 deaths in 2017. The objective of this study was to estimate the prediction ability of vector species associated with the prediction power of environmental and socio-economic factors for… read more here.
Keywords: vector; economic factors; malaria risk; vector species ... See more keywords
Morts pour la France: Demographic or Economic Factors?
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1460715
Abstract: Abstract This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the database ‘Mémoire des hommes’, which is a record of more than 1 million French soldiers officially recognized as dead during the World War I (WWI). Integrating… read more here.
Keywords: morts pour; economic factors; demographic economic; france demographic ... See more keywords
Discrimination, Mediating Psychosocial or Economic Factors, and Antihypertensive Treatment: A 4-Way Decomposition Analysis in the Health and Retirement Study.
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DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwac102
Abstract: Untested psychosocial or economic factors mediate associations between perceived discrimination and suboptimal antihypertensive therapy. This study included two waves of data from the Health and Retirement Study participants with self-reported hypertension (N=8557, 73% Non-Hispanic White,… read more here.
Keywords: retirement study; discrimination; health retirement; psychosocial economic ... See more keywords