Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Urban Green Space Design Affects Urban Residents’ Social Interaction
Abstract While Malaysia is heading for urbanization, urban green space degradation had occurred. Malaysia's typical urban green space had shown the demotion of social interaction among urban residents. Hence, this research aimed to understand the...
2013 / Mohd Hisyam Rasidi, Nurzuliza Jamirsah, Ismail Said -
A Paradigm Shift in European Transport and Urban Planning -Fact or Fable?
Abstract The grand challenges such as global warming, global markets, energy supply, ageing population, security, scarcity of financial resources and also new technologies necessitate new ways of system -level thinking, working and making decisions...
2012 / Anu Tuominen, Heikki Kanner, Eeva Linkama -
Modelling travel time in urban networks: comparable measures for private car and public transport
Abstract Analysing the accessibility disparity between different travel modes is recognised as an efficient way to assess the environmental and social sustainability of transport and land use arrangements. Travel times by different travel modes form ...
2013 / Maria Salonen, Tuuli Toivonen -
From the “forgotten region” to the “great game” region: On the development of geopolitics in Central Asia
Abstract Only eight years ago, Central Asian 1 1 In this article Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are...
2012 / Yelena Nikolayevna Zabortseva -
Spirituality and Social Values vs. Material Formalism: An Approach to a Human Architecture
Abstract Architectural schools of design overwhelmingly adapt to cultural backgrounds of societies they target. This paper distinguishes between ideologies that generated Western, contemporary architecture, and on the other hand, the values of...
2013 / Aly Mohamed El Husseiny, Ahmed Aly El Husseiny -
Sleipner and Pre-Salt: The competitive strategic concerns of promoting CCS in Norway and Brazil
Abstract It is regularly argued that CCS deployment is more likely to occur in developed countries associated with high fossil fuels dependence levels, Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions sources and to the implementation of specific taxes to GHG....
2011 / Mikael Román, Fábio Saraiva Schott -
Assessing CCS viability - A socio-technical framework
Abstract This paper develops an interdisciplinary framework to assess the different dimensions of uncertainties which surround the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS). It includes technical, economic, financial, political and societal...
2011 / Nils Markusson, Florian Kern, Jim Watson -
Simple Urban Simulation Atop Complicated Models: Multi-Scale Equation-Free Computing of Sprawl Using Geographic Automata2013 / Paul Torrens, Yannis Kevrekidis, Roger Ghanem, Yu Zou
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Kinship, ethnicity and religion in post-Communist societies: Russia's autonomous republic of Kabardino-Balkariya2005 / G. M. Yemelianova
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Cobenefits of Replacing Car Trips with Alternative Transportation: A Review of Evidence and Methodological Issues2013 / Ting Xia, Ying Zhang, Shona Crabb, Pushan Shah
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Healthy travel and the socio-economic structure of car commuting in Cambridge, UK: A mixed-methods analysis
Abstract Car use is associated with substantial health and environmental costs but research in deprived populations indicates that car access may also promote psychosocial well-being within car-oriented environments. This mixed-method (quantitative...
2012 / Anna Goodman, Cornelia Guell, Jenna Panter, Natalia R. Jones, David Ogilvie -
Partitioned identities? Everyday national distinctions in Northern Ireland and the Irish state2015 / Jennifer Todd
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Enclosing resources on the islands of Kinmen and Xiamen: From war blockade to financializing natural heritage
Abstract The cultures of the islands of Kinmen and Xiamen, also respectively Quemoy and Amoy, are tightly interwoven with the South China coastal region of Fujian. Both archipelagos played important historical roles in coastal defense and have been...
2015 / Huei-Min Tsai, Bo-Wei Chiang -
Two futures: EU-Russia relations in the context of Ukraine.2014 / Samuel R. Schubert, Johannes Pollak, Elina Brutschin
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The compulsive habit of cars
The car dependence of people living in contemporary cities is a major concern for policy makers, who often find it difficult to persuade people into more sustainable transport modes. By contrast, recent insights from neuroscience have shown that a broad spectrum...
2014 / Yavor Yalachkov, Marcus J. Naumer, Anna Plyushteva -
Social Monitoring in Mountain Biosphere Reserves2006 / Martin F. Price, Astrid Björnsen Gurung, Pablo Dourojeanni, Daniel Maselli
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Influence of social and built environment features on children walking to school: An observational study
Abstract Objectives To estimate the proportion of children living within walking distance who walk to school in Toronto, Canada and identify built and social environmental correlates of walking. ...
2013 / Linda Rothman, Teresa To, Ron Buliung, Colin Macarthur, Andrew Howard -
Current Tourism Patterns in the Swedish Mountain Region2006 / Thomas A. Heberlein, Peter Fredman, Tuomas Vuorio
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Collaboration and the Generation of New Knowledge in Networked Innovation Systems: A Bibliometric Analysis
Abstract Canola, a high-value, export-oriented agricultural commodity, was developed in Canada over the course of 40 years in public institutions, driven by imported technology and imported research scientists. The evolution of canola R&D...
2012 / William P. Boland, Peter W.B. Phillips, Camille D. Ryan, Sara McPhee-Knowles -
Has the Clean Development Mechanism assisted sustainable development?2014 / Jingjing He, Yongfu Huang, Finn Tarp