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DISCOVERING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MATERIAL CONSUMPTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
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Author
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Venkitasubramanian, Kailas
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Sociology, Geography, Government policy
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Description
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This dissertation theoretically and empirically investigates how material consumption affects human happiness and life satisfaction in the urbanized societies around the world. In recent literature, happiness and life satisfaction is encapsulated ...
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Municipal Voluntary Environmental Programs: The case of Swedish Eco-Municipalities
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Author
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Duma, Nathan
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Government policy, Environmental economics, Geography
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Description
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Over the space of three articles, we attempt to answer two broad questions related to public sector voluntary environmental programs (VEP) through a case study on the National Association of Swedish Eco-municipalities (SEKOM). The first question a...
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Receptivity in a New Immigrant Gateway: Immigrant Settlement Geography, Public Education, and Immigrant Integration in Charlotte, North Carolina
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Author
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McDaniel, Paul
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Geography, Government policy, Education and state
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Description
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Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structures related to a community's political, economic, social, and cultural sphere...
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SPACE-TIME DYNAMICS OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL WATER CONSUMPTION IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
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Author
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Zhou, Yuhong
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Geography, Government policy, Water resources development--Management
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Description
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Water availability has become a more significant economic and policy issue in contemporary America. Although emerging as an attractive tool to water authorities, demand-side water management in urbanized areas is more complicated due to the high c...