Abstract How social media impacts the autonomy of its users is a topic increasing focus. However, much literature that explores these fails to engage in depth with philosophical on autonomy. This has resulted failure consider full range might have A deeper consideration thus needed, given importance both as moral concept and feature contemporary life. By drawing this literature, we argue broadl...

The primary objective of this paper is to analyse the extent and magnitude of the actual social, economic and environmental impacts of the Atatürk Dam in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey, on the region some eight years after its construction was completed. The direct impacts, both positive and negative, due to the construction of the Atatürk Dam on the people living in the two provinces affected dire...

Abstract—The objective of this study is to determine how entrepreneurs perceive the economic, social and physical impacts of tourism. The study was conducted in the city of Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, which is rich in thermal tourism resources and investments. A survey was used as the data collection method, and the questionnaire was applied to 472 entrepreneurs. A simple random sampling method was...

This article examines retail branding in the single-brand retail environment. Single-brand retailers sell only private label brands, which are generally the name of the store. The foundation of this research is based on prior calls in the literature to examine private label and retail branding. This article examines the role of selfand social-identification and affiliation with a brand communit...

impacts on disability, mortality and health care systems has never been in doubt. Disability-adjusted life-years, standardised mortality rates and health care costs have all been used to aggregate these impacts – see, for example, the report by the World Health Organization (2001). However, what is frequently overlooked is a number of often substantial economic consequences, sometimes referred ...

Global climate change is expected to pose increasing challenges for cities in the following decades, placing greater stress and impacts on multiple social and biophysical systems, including population health, coastal development, urban infrastructure, energy demand, and water supplies. Simultaneously, a strong global trend towards urbanisation of poverty exists, with increased challenges for ur...