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regimes

• In regime
  …of labour conditions and the European Environment Agency and its regulation of the environment. These have a different set of resources—economic, political, and social—to draw on than national governments do, and their activities can either empower or constrain individual nation-states. The second alternative use of the regime concept is in…
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urban sprawl

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  In urban sprawl
  …collected in 2002 by the European Environment Agency, the population of a subset of European countries increased by only 6 percent between 1980 and 2000; however, the spatial footprint of built-up areas within these countries increased by 20 percent. The spatial footprints of some metropolitan areas, such as Palermo, Italy,…
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