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In: Current History, Band 1, Heft 6, S. 1220-1221
ISSN: 1944-785X
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In: Current History, Band 1, Heft 6, S. 1220-1221
ISSN: 1944-785X
In: The Political Economy of Environmental Justice, S. 170-196
In: World leisure & recreation: official journal of the World Leisure Organisation, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 26-29
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 62, S. 151-158
ISSN: 0264-8377
Economic valuation is widely used in OECD countries as a way of assessing the (usually monetary) value of goods that have no markets. In the rural context, valuation methods are used to argue for or against projects and policy choices in areas as diverse as agricultural support policies, local economic development, land use and biodiversity assessment. This volume reviews a range of different valuation methodologies -- stated preferences, cost-benefit, revealed preferences, and others -- and looks at how these different approaches influence choices in rural policy. Its aim is to assess whether
In: Development Southern Africa, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 627-635
ISSN: 1470-3637
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In: Pacific affairs, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 477
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: National civic review: promoting civic engagement and effective local governance for more than 100 years, Band 77, Heft 1, S. 55-59
ISSN: 1542-7811
In: Challenge: the magazine of economic affairs, Band 26, Heft 5, S. 57-58
ISSN: 1558-1489
In: Sociology of religion, Band 83, Heft 4, S. 434-458
ISSN: 1759-8818
AbstractRecently, sociologists of religion have argued that rather than treating geographical location as a mere backdrop against which religion happens, scholars ought to theorize how place characteristics influence, and are shaped by, religion. In particular, they focus on urbanicity, a key variable in the secularization debate. Drawing on interviews with 50 Catholic and non-Catholic residents of a small city just outside of Washington, D.C. along with participant observation data, I argue that one way to examine how urbanicity—and space and place more generally—matters for religion is to identify its affordances, or features of an environment that allow for certain lines of action. Specifically, I show how urban amenities can afford the creation of religious amenities that support religious practice. I also demonstrate how the concepts of affordances and amenities can be used to theorize place characteristics, and their relationship with religion, more systematically.
In: Journal of urban affairs, Band 24, Heft 5, S. 493-515
ISSN: 1467-9906
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In: The review of black political economy: analyzing policy prescriptions designed to reduce inequalities, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 49-58
ISSN: 1936-4814
Even when there are no racial wage differences between black and white faculty in institutions of higher learning in the Deep South, there are significant racial differences in amenities such that the psychic income of blacks is lower than that of whites. It is demonstrated that black faculty will tend to have higher turnover rates than whites if racial discrepancies in amenities exist. The maintenance of old traditions that affect job satisfaction of blacks acts as a margin to neutralize integration efforts. The assumption that equal pay is equivalent to equal opportunity is challenged.