Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Bundled transgovernmentalism: North American climate governance and the lessons learned from the Security and Prosperity Partnership
Abstract This paper takes stock of the current nature and form of climate governance (or its absence) with a view to considering the adequacy of current governance approaches to meet more rigorous greenhouse gas mitigation requirements. In...
2011 / Neil Craik -
Housing Affordability: A Conceptual Overview for House Price Index
Abstract Housing affordability research has been carried out by many as it is one of the key measures for a country's socio-economy stability. This research is carried out to identify possible application of affordability measures including...
2011 / M.S. Suhaida, N.M. Tawil, N. Hamzah, A.I. Che-Ani, H. Basri, et al. -
Decentralization and efficiency of local government2009 / Maria Teresa Balaguer-Coll, Diego Prior, Emili Tortosa-Ausina
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Ritual and Space Structure: Pilgrimage and Space Use in Historical Urban Kampung Context of Luar Batang (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Abstract This article is a result of a phenomenological study of Kampung Luar Batang, a historical urban kampung located at Ciliwung river estuary in Jakarta, Indonesia. Islam missionary, Al-Habib Husein bin Abubakar Allaydrus, has forged image of...
2012 / Popi Puspitasari, Sudaryono Achmad Djunaedi, Heddy Shri Ahimsa Putra -
Between Colonial, Moslem, and Post-Independence Era, Which Layer of Urban Patterns should be Conserved?
Abstract Ancient maps reveal that Dutch colonial have covered alun-alun as the moslem city image like those in Jakarta, Surabaya, except in Semarang. Both Indonesian Moslem and colonial city experts cannot explain the phenomena. The alun-alun lama...
2013 / R. Siti Rukayah, Bharoto, Abdul Malik -
Reconstituting the Public-Private Divide under Global Conditions: The Case of Dutch and British Water Management2005 / W. Dicke
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A Population Approach to Transportation Planning: Reducing Exposure to Motor-Vehicles2013 / Daniel Fuller, Patrick Morency
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From Polybius to Dadaab: Traumatic Urbanization in the Anthropocene
Abstract The 2007 Fourth Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that 145 million people will be permanently displaced from their homes in the next 90 years due to man-made climate change. This number...
2014 / Matthew Jelacic -
Why should we promote public engagement with science?2014 / J. Stilgoe, S. J. Lock, J. Wilsdon
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Interventions in Bicycle Infrastructure, Lessons from Dutch and Danish Cases
Abstract Today the interest in cycling is increasing worldwide and in many countries authorities are faced with the question how cycling can be promoted efficiently. In the Netherlands and Denmark, this question came up already in the 1970s when the ...
2015 / Kees van Goeverden, Thomas Sick Nielsen, Henrik Harder, Rob van Nes -
Nonviolent mobilization between a rock and a hard place: Popular resistance and double repression in the West Bank2015 / J. Hoigilt
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Assessing social equity in distance based transit fares using a model of travel behavior
Abstract The goal of this study is to develop and apply a new method for assessing social equity impacts of distance-based public transit fares. Shifting to a distance-based fare structure can disproportionately favor or penalize different subgroups ...
2014 / Steven Farber, Keith Bartholomew, Xiao Li, Antonio Páez, Khandker M. Nurul Habib -
Social and economic effects of spatial distribution in island communities: Comparing the Isles of Scilly and Isle of Wight, UK
Abstract There has been increasing awareness that communities based on islands are subject to particular island-related factors (the so-called ‘island effect’). This paper sheds empirical light on how the island effect differs in different kinds of...
2014 / Adam Grydehøj, Philip Hayward -
Unraveling the Notion of “Fair Carbon”: Key Challenges for Standards Development
Summary Standards organizations and NGOs have begun to refer to “fair carbon” projects, and “fairly traded” carbon credits. “Fairness” is a fuzzy notion, subject to multiple and competing interpretations. This paper draws on a framing used by...
2015 / Rebecca Joy Howard, Anne Tallontire, Lindsay Stringer, Rob Marchant -
Politics by other means2006 / T. B. Hansen
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Stakeholders’ Perception on the Effectiveness of Housing Planning and Control in Urban Areas: A Preliminary Survey
Abstract Planning mechanisms such as development plan and planning control are considered to be some of the contributing factors in achieving successful housing development mainly in urban areas. However, the effectiveness of housing planning and...
2015 / Hamizah Yakob, Fatimah Yusof, Hazlina Hamdan -
Structure of Chinese city network as driven by technological knowledge flows2015 / Haitao Ma, Chuanglin Fang, Bo Pang, Shaojian Wang
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A utility-based suitability framework for integrated local-scale land-use modelling
Abstract Models that simulate land-use patterns often use either inductive, data-driven approaches or deductive, theory-based methods to describe the relative strength of the social, economic and biophysical forces that drive the various sectors in...
2014 / Eric Koomen, Vasco Diogo, Jasper Dekkers, Piet Rietveld -
The geoengine: geoengineering and the geopolitics of planetary modification2013 / Kathryn Yusoff
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Social Science Insights for the BioCCS Industry2015 / Anne-Maree Dowd, Michelle Rodriguez, Talia Jeanneret