Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Shocks, spillovers and the location of firms
Abstract Focusing on the characteristics of destinations, this paper pursues to identify the role of spatial spillovers in driving location choices of firms. With this objective a spatial conditional logit framework is defined, allowing for...
2011 / Andrés Artal-Tur, José Miguel Navarro-Azorín, Luisa Alamá-Sabater, Antonio García-Sánchez -
The Geography of Solar Photovoltaics (PV) and a New Low Carbon Urban Transition Theory2013 / Peter Newton, Peter Newman
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Data management and applications in a world-leading bus fleet
Abstract Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) Systems are being introduced increasingly in many major cities around the world to improve the efficiency of our road-based passenger transport systems. Satellite-based location and communication systems,...
2012 / N.B. Hounsell, B.P. Shrestha, A. Wong -
Thinking the ontological politics of managerial and critical performativities: An examination of project failure
Summary Recent contributions within Critical Management Studies have argued for critical engagements with performativity to acknowledge and advance the plurality of performance calculi within organizations. However, even critically minded authors...
2013 / Sage Daniel, Dainty Andrew, Brookes Naomi -
On becoming healthier communities: Poverty, territorial development and planning
Abstract Healthy communities seek to improve the health of their citizens as a central aim of development policies and develop possibilities for health related ‘economic integration’. They depend strongly on Municipal initiative in animating...
2013 / José Manuel Henriques -
Climate Change and Malaria in Canada: A Systems Approach2009 / L. Berrang-Ford, J. D. MacLean, Theresa W. Gyorkos, J. D. Ford, N. H. Ogden
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US Agriculture under Climate Change: An Examination of Climate Change Effects on Ease of Achieving RFS22013 / Yuquan W. Zhang, Bruce A. McCarl
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Biographical Narratives of Encounter: The Significance of Mobility and Emplacement in Shaping Attitudes towards Difference2013 / G. Valentine, J. Sadgrove
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The benefits of R&D and breadth in innovation strategies: a comparison of Finnish service and manufacturing firms2012 / A. Leiponen
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Renewable energy policy framework and bioenergy contribution in the European Union – An overview from National Renewable Energy Action Plans and Progress Reports
Abstract The use of renewable energy is projected to increase substantially in the European Union to reach a share of 20% in final energy consumption and 10% renewable energy in transport by 2020. The renewable energy contribution is further...
2015 / Nicolae Scarlat, Jean-François Dallemand, Fabio Monforti-Ferrario, Manjola Banja, Vincenzo Motola -
Identities in transit: the (re)connections and (re)brandings of Berlin's municipal railway infrastructure after 1989
Abstract This article analyses urban railway infrastructures as landscapes in order to reveal their role as constructions and constructors of collective and individual identities. It does this by introducing the notion of 'identities in transit', a...
2015 / Samuel Merrill -
Unravelling the migration decision-making process: English early retirees moving to rural mid-Wales
Abstract There are established migrant reasons to explain rural in-migration. These include quality of life, rural idyll and lifestyle motivations. However, such one-dimensional sound bites portray rural in-migration in overly simplistic and...
2014 / Aileen Stockdale -
Standing in the way by standing in the middle: The case of state-owned natural gas intermediaries in Bulgaria
Abstract Bulgaria is a significant natural gas transit state in the EU (a role set to increase with the South Stream and potential Nabucco West gas pipelines) and a Member State subject to EU regulation. As a result, the regulation of natural gas in ...
2014 / Ralitsa Petrova Hiteva, Tomas Maltby -
Discussion: Potential for carfree development in the UK2013 / Steven Melia, Hugh Barton, Graham Parkhurst, Marcus P Enoch, James P Warren
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Research in historical geography and in the history and philosophy of geography in the UK, 2001–2011: an overview
Abstract This report, commissioned by the UK's Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of an international review of research in human geography in the UK, considers the quality and impact of research within two related fields of...
2013 / Felix Driver -
The challenges facing the global south: perspectives from the Philippines2015 / Charmaine G. Misalucha
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Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences2015 / W Neil Adger, Nigel W Arnell, Richard Black, Stefan Dercon, Andrew Geddes, et al.
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Societal implication and challenges of demographic change – some introductory remarks2014 / Barbara Černič-Mali, Andreas Koch, Madeleine Koch
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Revealing the structure of the world airline network2014 / T. Verma, N. A. M. Araújo, H. J. Herrmann
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Enhancing food security through a multi-stakeholder process: the global agenda for sustainable livestock2015 / Gerard Breeman, Jeroen Dijkman, Catrien Termeer