Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Lessons in Sustainability from the Mining Industry
Abstract Environmental concerns, water and energy availability and costs as well as the public's license to operate all contrive to demand more efforts targeting sustainability. In this paper we discuss the broad lessons learnt in the wider mining...
2014 / Robin Batterham -
WORLD CLIMATE: A Role-Play Simulation of Climate Negotiations2014 / J. Sterman, T. Franck, T. Fiddaman, A. Jones, S. McCauley, et al.
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Sisters in sustainability: municipal partnerships for social, environmental, and economic growth2014 / Dustin McLarty, Nora Davis, Joshua Gellers, Nasrin Nasrollahi, Erik Altenbernd
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The influence of rainfall on road accidents in urban areas: A weather radar approach
Abstract This paper presents a novel and rigorous approach to the analysis of the impact of rainfall on road traffic accidents in urban areas. It is argued that previous approaches to rainfall quantification for accident analysis, primarily using a...
2014 / David Jaroszweski, Tom McNamara -
Visitor users vs. non-users of public transport: The case of Munich, Germany
Abstract Although its importance for sustainable tourism is recognised little research has been conducted on tourist use of public transport. This paper examines the use of public transport by visitors in the city of Munich, Germany. Its objectives...
2014 / Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn, Regine Gerike, C. Michael Hall -
Beyond ‘predict and provide’: UK transport, the growth paradigm and climate change
Abstract Thirty years ago, Adams (1981) depicted a future UK where everyone was a millionaire lorry driver, simply by extrapolating from contemporary official transport growth assumptions. These assumptions underpinned the ‘predict and provide’...
2014 / Murray Goulden, Tim Ryley, Robert Dingwall -
Fearing fatness and feeling fat: Encountering affective spaces of physical activity
Abstract The intention of this paper is to reveal how emotional dynamics of girls' fear and repulsion of fat operate within spaces of physical activity including Physical Education (PE). Through engagement with girls' everyday embodied experiences,...
2013 / Morgan Windram-Geddes -
Measuring and Evaluating the Impacts of TOD Measures – Searching for Evidence of TOD Characteristics in Azambuja Train Line
Abstract TOD (Transit Oriented Development) is typically defined as a high density mixed area (residential and commercial) within easy walking distance of a high capacity public transport station (typically within an 800m buffer area). TOD is viewed ...
2014 / Ana Galelo, Anabela Ribeiro, Luis M. Martinez -
“Migrants on the Outskirts of Middle-East Europe”
Abstract The fall of communism in the 1990s, started a complex process of development of the market economy, political democracy and national sovereignty in the area of the Kresy. Polish community maintaining inter-generation heritage in the Kresy,...
2014 / Irena Kotowicz-Borowy -
A method to evaluate equitable accessibility: combining ethical theories and accessibility-based approaches2015 / Karen Lucas, Bert van Wee, Kees Maat
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On the Failure of R&D Projects2015 / Albert N. Link, Mike Wright
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MIREN: A New Research Network Concerned With Plant Invasion into Mountain Areas2006 / Hansjörg Dietz, Christoph Kueffer, Catherine G. Parks
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Digital Narratives: Mapping Contemporary Use of Urban Open Spaces through Geo-social Data
Abstract Over the last decade, new spatial means have been keenly developed on geo-social, location-based networking systems and more recently through mobile applications, with significant personalized digital content, full of cognitive and...
2014 / Yuri Queiroz Abreu Torres, Lucia Maria Sá Antunes Costa -
Limits to mass tourism’s effects in rural peripheries
Abstract Economic linkages between mass tourism cores and rural peripheries are widely proposed as developmental. This article adopts a livelihoods approach to investigate the influence of a major Cambodian tourism destination on its rural...
2014 / Robin Biddulph -
Accounting for Heterogeneity in Travel Episode Satisfaction Using a Random Parameters Panel Effects Regression Model
Abstract Rasouli & Timmermans1 suggested a model of travel episode satisfaction that includes the degree and nature of multitasking, activity envelope, transport mode, travel party, duration and a set of contextual and socio-economic variables....
2014 / Soora Rasouli, Harry Timmermans -
Modeling residential development in California from 2000 to 2050: Integrating wildfire risk, wildland and agricultural encroachment
Abstract Between 1940 and 2000, nearly 10 million housing units were constructed throughout California. This increased interaction between human and natural communities creates a number of significant socio-ecological challenges. Here we present a...
2014 / Michael L. Mann, Peter Berck, Max A. Moritz, Enric Batllori, James G. Baldwin, et al. -
Effectiveness of Gated Communities in Providing Safe Environments for Children's Outdoor Use
Abstract Due to the safety factor, children use of the outdoor spaces in the urban neighborhood is rather limited. As easily-targeted victims, it is important for children to be safe while using the outdoor spaces. Since a gated community is...
2014 / Shuhana Shamsuddin, Khazainun Zaini, Ahmad Bashri Sulaiman -
Open to a Select Few? Matching Partners and Knowledge Content for Open Innovation Performance2014 / Lars Bengtsson, Nicolette Lakemond, Valentina Lazzarotti, Raffaella Manzini, Luisa Pellegrini, et al.
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The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development2011 / Peter van der Zwan, Ingrid Verheul, A. Roy Thurik
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New city model to reduce demand for transportation
Abstract Managing demand for transportation can be a cost-effective alternative to increasing capacity. A demand management approach to transport services also has the potential to deliver better environmental outcomes, improved public health and...
2011 / Sumant Sharma, Anoop Sharma, Ashwani Kumar