Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Using Social Network Analysis to Investigate the Potential of Innovation Networks: Lessons Learned from NASA's International Space Apps Challenge
Abstract This research analyzes the affiliated multipartite social networks of hackathon style mass collaboration events. Using social network analysis we model the innovation networks for NASA's International Space Apps Challenge and use social...
2014 / Fatima Senghore, Enrique Campos-Nanez, Pavel Fomin, James S. Wasek -
Cities and Transport Networks in Shipping and Logistics Research
Abstract While shipping and logistics studies often describe the flows and networks on the level of firms and terminals rather than cities, urban studies pay limited attention to transport infrastructure and material flows. The renewal of network...
2013 / César Ducruet, Igor Lugo -
Predicting violence within genocide: A model of elite competition and ethnic segregation from Rwanda
Abstract Can we predict when and where violence will likely break out within cases of genocide? I present a theoretical model to help identify areas susceptible and resistant to violence during genocide. The model conceptualizes violence onset as a...
2014 / Omar Shahabudin McDoom -
Is change in environmental supportiveness between primary and secondary school associated with a decline in children׳s physical activity levels?
Abstract Using a sample of English schoolchildren, we evaluate whether a change in school local area environmental supportiveness between primary and secondary school is associated with changes in active travel behaviours and physical activity...
2014 / Emma Coombes, Andy Jones, Angie Page, Ashley R. Cooper -
Technopolis, shared resources or controlled mobility? A net-based Delphi-study to explore visions of future urban daily mobility in Norway2015 / Tom Erik Julsrud, Tanu Priya Uteng
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Toward a regenerative sustainability paradigm for the built environment: from vision to reality
Abstract This Call for Papers (CfPs) for a Special Volume of Journal of Cleaner Production (SV) focuses upon multiple dimensions of regenerative sustainability (e.g. regenerative design, regenerative development, and positive development) applied to ...
2013 / Xiaoling Zhang -
Ultimate Government Control Structures and Firm Value: Evidence from Chinese Listed Companies
Abstract We show that 70% of Chinese listed companies are ultimately controlled by government agencies, thereby indicating that state ownership remains widespread in China's stock markets. Three questions are considered that are related to...
2013 / Kun Wang, Xing Xiao -
Why cities are looking abroad and how they go about it2007 / Ernesto D’Albergo
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Novel multisector networks and entrepreneurship in urban climate governance2013 / Heike Schroeder, Sarah Burch, Steve Rayner
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New Community-led Conservation Efforts in the Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru2006 / Jeffrey Bury
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Intersectionality, Rural Criminology, and Re-imaging the Boundaries of Critical Criminology2014 / Kerry Carrington, Joseph F. Donnermeyer, Walter S. DeKeseredy
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Barriers to reducing climate enhanced disaster risks in Least Developed Country-Small Islands through anticipatory adaptation
Abstract Small Island Developing States (SIDS) classified as Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are particularly vulnerable to the projected impacts of climate change. Given their particular vulnerabilities, climate adaptation investments are being...
2014 / Natasha Kuruppu, Reenate Willie -
A high resolution spatial population database of Somalia for disease risk mapping2010 / Catherine Linard, Victor A Alegana, Abdisalan M Noor, Robert W Snow, Andrew J Tatem
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Racial differences in the built environment—body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods2012 / Dustin T Duncan, Marcia C Castro, Steven L Gortmaker, Jared Aldstadt, Steven J Melly, et al.
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Spatial (Im)mobility and Accessibility in Ireland: Implications for Transport Policy2012 / Henrike Rau, Amaya Vega
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Rural to Urban Squatter Settlements: The Micro Model of Generational Self-Help Housing in Lima-Peru
Abstract The urban model of development in Lima capital city has experienced a process of rapid growing from the 1950's due to an accelerated process of population growth influenced by migrants coming from the central highlands caused by political...
2011 / Claudia Sakay, Paola Sanoni, Toshihiro Hanazato DEng -
Anisotropic path modeling to assess pedestrian-evacuation potential from Cascadia-related tsunamis in the US Pacific Northwest2011 / Nathan J. Wood, Mathew C. Schmidtlein
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Children and Value - Education in Neo-liberal Times2013 / Dympna Devine, Wendy Luttrell
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Affluence drives the global displacement of land use
Abstract Increasing affluence is often postulated as a main driver for the human footprint on biologically productive areas, identified among the main causes of biodiversity loss, but causal relationships are obscured by international trade. Here,...
2013 / Jan Weinzettel, Edgar G. Hertwich, Glen P. Peters, Kjartan Steen-Olsen, Alessandro Galli -
Exploratory visualisation of congestion evolutions on urban transport networks
Abstract Visualisation is an effective tool for studying traffic congestion using massive traffic datasets collected from traffic sensors. Existing techniques can reveal where/when congested areas are formed, developed, and moved on one or several...
2013 / Tao Cheng, Garavig Tanaksaranond, Chris Brunsdon, James Haworth