Village-based bottom-up industrialization and urbanization in high-density dynamic regions
give rise to prevalent rural sprawl in a form of considerable fragmentation in land uses …

Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the
risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public …

The first decades of the twenty-first century have offered a remarkable shift in how policies
are made as well as who designs them. Until this period, local, regional, and national policy …

This paper uses recent multidimensional well-being measurements to examine
multidimensional well-being and inequality across the European regions in 2000 and 2014 …

Research on depression and education usually focuses on a unidirectional relationship.
This paper proposes a reciprocal relationship, simultaneously estimating the effects of …

Zimbabwe mainstreamed SDGs into national development plans, but there is no alignment
of policies, structures, and strategies with urban local authorities. National and urban local …

The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need to consider multiple and often novel
perspectives on contemporary policymaking in the context of technically complex …

Abstract Fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) is of widespread concern, as it poses a serious
impact on economic development and human health. Although the influence of …

This paper critiques international trends towards certain school practices aimed at promoting
equity and social justice by closing gaps in specific learning outcomes among students. It …

A vast literature has related perceptions of income inequality to individuals' income: the
higher the level of income, the less inequality is perceived. Here, examining the perceptions …