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Latvian Migrants’ Circular or Permanent Migration to Norway: 'Economic and Social Factors'

Oksana Zabko, Katrine Fangen, Sylvi Endresen • Nordic Journal of Migration Research (2019)

This article analyses migration decisions and labour market manoeuvring of Latvian migrants to Norway, as well as the economic and social conditions that influence their choices. How do they adapt to the labour market in Norway? Do they pra...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2478/njmr-2019-0007

Big data and human geography

Rob Kitchin • Dialogues in Human Geography (2013)

We are entering an era of big data – data sets that are characterised by high volume, velocity, variety, exhaustivity, resolution and indexicality, relationality and flexibility. Much of these data are spatially and temporally referenced an...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820613513388

The Role of Public Administration in Promoting Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Population Growth and Global Nutrition Interventions

Sorin Burlacu, Ana Maria Călin, Elena Crizantema Vâlcu, Evelina Petronela Bălu • Proceeding Papers (BASIQ International Conference) (2023)

This research paper aims to investigate the role of public administration in promoting sustainable development through a case study of global nutrition interventions and population growth. The study employs a case study approach to gain a c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.24818/BASIQ/2023/09/023

Health and beyond...strategies for a better India: using the "prison window" to reach disadvantaged groups in primary care

Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Rebecca J Mathew • Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care (2015)

As of 2013, the latest statistics available, more than 400,000 individuals are lodged in Indian prisons. Prisoners represent a heterogeneous population, belonging to socially diverse and economically disadvantaged sections of society with l...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.161304

Making Big Business Everybody’s Business: Aboriginal leaders’ perspectives on commercial activities influencing Aboriginal health in Victoria, Australia

Alessandro Connor Crocetti, Troy Walker, Fiona Mitchell, Simone Sherriff et al. • Globalization and Health (2024)

Abstract Background The commercial determinants of health is a rapidly expanding field of research; however Indigenous perspectives remain notably underrepresented. For Indigenous peoples the intersection of globalisation, colonialism and c...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12992-024-01038-8

Going beyond the flood insurance rate map: insights from flood hazard map co-production

A. Luke, B. F. Sanders, B. F. Sanders, K. A. Goodrich et al. • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (2018)

Flood hazard mapping in the United States (US) is deeply tied to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Consequently, publicly available flood maps provide essential information for insurance purposes, but they do not necessarily pr...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/nhess-18-1097-2018