Voice, exit and efficacy: Dealing with perceived neighbourhood decline without moving out

Residents of deprived urban neighbourhoods with a changing population often experience an increase in insecurity. If they judge the change as decline, they are likely to become less satisfied with their residential situation and exhibit coping tactics. This paper combines Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty theory with insights on personal and...

Just another business case?: Enhancing the agency for energy-efficient refurbishment among private homeowners

Private home owners can reduce their energy use significantly and move towards a low carbon lifestyle by retrofitting their homes in an energy efficient standard. Seen from a societal perspective energy efficient refurbishment of homes can play a pivotal role to reach significant reductions of CO2 emissions. However, current experiences are...

Dealing with living in poor neighbourhoods

In this prologue to the special issue, the guest editors place the contributions in the context of current debates on living in concentrated poverty neighbourhoods. These debates concern two broad categories of residents: poor households that are assisted to move from concentrations of poverty to lower-poverty areas (movers); and households (not...

Residential choice and neighbourhood experiences in a Dutch urban poverty area; draft version

Workshop 1. Session 1.1: Poverty and identity

Method of separating a particle mixture using a biphasic system

Abstract of GB 2363999 (A) A method of separating a particle mixture comprising first and second types of particle which differ chemically from each other, using a biphasic fluid system comprising a relatively dense first fluid and a relatively less dense second fluid, said fluids being substantially insoluble in each other. The particles PM to...