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Hedonic and Eudaimonic wellbeing

The concept of happiness is the cornerstone of the assumptions of positive psychology. Happiness is characterised by the experience of more frequent positive affective states than negative ones as well as a perception that one is progressing toward important life … Continue reading

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The Modification of August Lösch

Starting in the 1930s, German geographer August Lösch began to build upon and modify Christaller’s model. He did this, in part, because he noticed that the variation in K is very important in shaping the organizations of centers and the … Continue reading

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The deceiving thing about the big, historic drop in CO2 emissions

Originally posted on The Extinction Chronicles:
https://mashable.com/article/carbon-emissions-drop-2020-coronavirus/ BY MARK KAUFMAN1 DAY AGO Eye-opening, powerful words are now used to describe plummeting CO2 emissions in 2020. It “would be the largest decrease in emissions ever recorded,” the International Energy Agency said Thursday. Spurred by…

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Urbanization as a Socio-Cultural Process

Cities are social artifacts and stand apart from the countryside, in terms of the higher degree of its acceptance of foreign and cross-cultural influences. It is a melting pot of people with diverse ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. Seen in … Continue reading

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