Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Corporate purchasing practices in global production networks: A socially contested terrain
Abstract Civil society organisations are employing both adversarial and collaborative strategies to challenge purchasing practices of large corporations as a cause of poor employment conditions for a largely female workforce. This paper draws on...
2012 / Stephanie Barrientos -
Accessibility for Disabled in Public Transportation Terminal
Abstract Accessibility is important in daily life especially when dealing with external and internal environment. Realizing that most public transport terminals still lack in terms of good design and facilities thus a serious concern for the matters ...
2012 / Seyed Hassan Khalifeh Soltani, Mashita Sham, Mohamad Awang, Rostam Yaman -
Critical Approaches to Caragiale's Writings: From the Pressure of the Totalitarian Ideology to Postmodern Re-Configurations
Abstract During the Romanian totalitarian age, Caragiale's writings were read through the doctrinaire pattern subjected to the political ideology of the Communist Party which deeply de-formed the politics - aesthetics relationship, favouring the...
2013 / Oana Andreea Contoman -
From competitive regions to competitive city-regions: a new orthodoxy, but some old mistakes2007 / J. Harrison
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Climate change mitigation policies and poverty in developing countries2013 / Zekarias Hussein, Thomas Hertel, Alla Golub
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Property TV: The (re)making of home on national screens2008 / R. McElroy
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What is maritime security?
Abstract Maritime security is one of the latest buzzwords of international relations. Major actors have started to include maritime security in their mandate or reframed their work in such terms. Maritime security is a term that draws attention to...
2014 / Christian Bueger -
Bicycle weight and commuting time: randomised trial2010 / J. Groves
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Evaluating the Efficacy of BREEAM Code for Sustainable Homes (CSH): A Cross-sectional Study
Abstract There is now a substantial body of evidence suggesting that climate change is occurring as a result of human activities. Bottom-up approaches have been encouraged to enhance sustainability agenda. Assessment methods have been developed to...
2014 / Christopher O’Malley, Poorang A.E. Piroozfar, Eric R.P. Farr, Jonathan Gates -
Air connectivity and foreign direct investments: economic effects of the introduction of new routes2014 / Mariasole Bannò, Renato Redondi
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Moral regulation: historical geography and scale
Abstract This paper introduces a special issue on the historical geography of moral regulation and scale. The paper examines the rich and varied work of geographers on moral geographies before looking at wider work on moral regulation influenced by...
2013 / Stephen Legg, Michael Brown -
Understanding the Travel Behavior of Elderly People in the Developing Country: A Case Study of Changchun, China
Abstract This paper presented a survey and analysis of elderly people travel behaviour in Changchun, China, including the different gentle elderly people's trip frequency per day, trip purpose, and mode choice. Then compared the difference between...
2013 / Xiaowei Hu, Jian Wang, Lei Wang -
Behavioral Models for the Estimation of the Air Transport Demand: The Case Study of Rome-London Flight Connection
Abstract Obtaining reliable estimates of the air transport demand is fundamental for both the short and the long term: namely, an underestimation or an overestimation of demand leads to an inefficient use of human, management and economic resources. ...
2014 / Ernesto Cipriani, Luca Crescenzi, Marialisa Nigro -
The Concept of Polycentrism in Infrastructure Networks an Application to Airports
Abstract This paper applies the concept of inter-regional polycentrism, which is commonly used in territorial development and strategic planning, to the airport networks design. Authors aim to demonstrate that airlines would be able to offer more...
2014 / Álvaro Costa, Sandra Melo, Carlos Cruz, Ahmad Sayed Ali -
Rise of new centres of power in Eurasia: Implications for Turkish foreign policy
Abstract The emergence of new centres of power in Eurasia has entailed a re-reading of Zbigniew Brzezinski's book which drew an analogy between the Eurasian supercontinent and a grand chessboard. Following the global financial crisis of the last few ...
2014 / Emre Erşen -
Effects of land-use transport scenarios on travel patterns: a multi-state supernetwork application2015 / Feixiong Liao, Theo Arentze, Eric Molin, Wendy Bothe, Harry Timmermans
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Governing shipping externalities: Baltic ports in the process of SOx emission reduction2013 / Daria Gritsenko, Johanna Yliskylä-Peuralahti
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Policy networks, stakeholder interactions and climate adaptation in the region of South East Queensland, Australia2013 / Ryan R. J. McAllister, Rod McCrea, Mark N. Lubell
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Diaspora as Process: (De)Constructing Boundaries2007 / Elizabeth Mavroudi
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Making communities age friendly: state and municipal initiatives in Canada and other countries
Abstract To promote healthy, active aging, the age-friendly community initiative has evolved in Canada, Spain, Brazil and Australia, among other countries. An age-friendly community provides accessible and inclusive built and social environments...
2011 / Louise A. Plouffe, Alexandre Kalache