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Background There is a growing concern that school siting, construction and renovation practices in the United States are inconsistent with efforts to reduce sprawl, encourage compact growth, and increase the sustainability of our built and natural environments. Current practices also undermine efforts to support walking and cycling to school, and to strengthen community-based schools. A range o...

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I. Introduction The Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) was enacted in 2001 with the intention of ensuring affordable and reliable electricity to all power consumers in the Philippines. The EPIRA seeks to achieve this through the introduction of sweeping reforms including the restructuring and deregulation of the entire power industry and the privatization of most state‐owned power gener...

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Background As Michael McCally notes in Life Support: The Environment and Human Health, “it is at least since the time of Hippocrates’s essay Air, Water, and Places that humans have been aware of the many connections between health and the environment.” Despite this awareness, seldom do we create an environment optimal for achieving health and wellbeing. A vital part of an environment which is s...

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(2005). Preventing emotional and behavioural problems: the effectiveness of parenting programmes with children less than 3 years of age. The right of the child for protection from corporal punishment and other cruel or degrading forms of punishment. Geneva: United Nations. (2006). Assult and injury of dating partners by university students in 19 countries and its relation to corporal punishment...

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