By: Xiaohui Hu, Wei Xu, Julie Miao What is the main purpose of your study?  The main purpose of our study is to examine how local states in China interpret and implement a top-down national policy on small-town development since...
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By: Andrew Husa (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Cheryl E. Morse (University of Vermont) What is the main purpose of your study? Drawing on results from an online survey of the mobility of people who grew up in Nebraska, this paper...
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By: Joshua Hagen This study highlights the role of historic preservation to foster attachments between people and places. Historic preservation involves the protection and restoration of specific places believed to have special meaning because they can teach us something about...
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By: Juha Saunavaara & Mirva Salminen  This study introduces the key characteristics of and recent changes in the global submarine fiber-optic cable network that handles 99 percent of international data traffic. The network’s importance lies in its ability to generate...
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By: Daniel Warshawsky What is the main purpose of your study?  This research analyzes the causes of food waste, food purchasing patterns, roles of different institutions in food waste governance, and perspectives on solutions to food waste in Dayton, Ohio.  What...
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By: Marie Price, Ivana Mowry-Mora What is the main purpose of your study?  This study explains the challenges that undocumented youth face to access higher education in the Southern U.S., specifically in Virginia. Most of the students in this study have...
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By: Oliver T. Coomes, Christian Abizaid, Yoshito Takasaki and Santiago Rivas Panduro What is the main purpose of your study?  The main purpose of the study was to describe a new archeological site discovered recently along the Ucayali river, a...
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By: Austin Charron What is the main purpose of your study?  The purpose of this study is to show how indigenous identities and experiences of colonization impact place attachment, using as a case study internally displaced peoples (IDPs) from Crimea...
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By: Jeffrey Smith and Ricardo Aranha What is the main purpose of your study?  The purpose of this article is to showcase how peoples’ mental maps (perceptions) of a place can be used as a tool to reveal their emotional...
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By: Thomas B. Larsen and John Harrington, Jr. What is the main purpose of your study?  This paper begins scholarly conversation to develop and formalize a human-environment timeline.  Numerous scholars agree that an “Age of Humans,” or Anthropocene, exists.  They...
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