Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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An illusion of success: The consequences of British rail privatisation
Abstract This article accounts for the British experiment with rail privatisation and how it has worked out economically and politically. The focus is not simply on profitability and public subsidy, but on the appearances which accounting...
2014 / Andrew Bowman -
Coastal Ecosystems: A Critical Element of Risk Reduction2013 / Mark D. Spalding, Anna L. McIvor, Michael W. Beck, Evamaria W. Koch, Iris Möller, et al.
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Migrant Remittances and Skipped Generation Households: Investigating the Exchange Motive Using Evidence from Nang Rong, Thailand2015 / M. Piotrowski
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Employers’ views of promoting walking to work: a qualitative study2015 / Suzanne Audrey, Sunita Procter
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Arts of urban exploration2005 / David Pinder
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The research on the city life of green information
Abstract This paper describes the difference between the era of mechanical reproduction and the green information age, and analyzes the concept of urban planning and the city symbol – the virtual space in green information technology age. Through...
2011 / Ye Shuanggui, Yang Jing, Dai Shiyuan -
Reconstructing the authenticity of place2011 / Sharon Zukin
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Does Cooperation Reduce Service Delivery Costs? Evidence from Residential Solid Waste Services2012 / G. Bel, X. Fageda, M. Mur
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A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO THE GEOGRAPHY OF INNOVATION: A TYPOLOGY OF REGIONS2012 / Rosina Moreno, Ernest Miguélez
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Meeting the management challenges of the Decade of Action for Road Safety
Abstract In low- and middle-income countries, the high price paid for mobility in terms of human loss and suffering is forecast to rise to unprecedented levels. More than 50million deaths and 500million serious injuries on the world's roads can be...
2011 / Tony Bliss, Jeanne Breen -
Modernization and Cultural Transformation: The Expansion of Traditional Batak Toba House in Huta Siallagan
Abstract Batak Toba people today are facing the dilemma of maintaining their tradition and keeping up to the modern way of living. This has resulted in cultural transformation of traditional houses, where modern utensils, new spaces and domestic...
2012 / Himasari Hanan -
Reshaping City Traffic Towards Sustainability Why Transport Policy should Favor the Bicycle Instead of Car Traffic
Abstract Most cities suffer from congestion and various traffic problems. Faltering public budgets do not allow expenditures for costly transport infrastructure. A recently conducted study on Vienna's inner-city traffic compared resulting financial...
2012 / Michael Meschik -
From national inclusion to economic exclusion: ethnic Hungarian labour migration to Hungary2007 / JON E. FOX
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Exploring Land Use and Transport Interaction through Structural Equation Modelling
Abstract Transport systems and land use are two mutually interconnected elements: the location of the activities and their need for interactions produce transport demand; on the other hand, transport supply system supporting transport demand and...
2012 / Laura Eboli, Carmen Forciniti, Gabriella Mazzulla -
Development Models of Resource-dependent Cities’ Transformations and Its Experience and Lessons-Take Baishan City's Development of Transformations as an Example
Abstract To transform the cities that have resource-dependent development into cities with diverse economic growths is a comprehensive and complex system project. Baishan City, as a typical example of the cities which rely on resources for economic...
2011 / Liang Shuna, Jin Zhaohuai -
Rethinking City-regionalism as the Production of New Non-State Spatial Strategies: The Case of Peel Holdings Atlantic Gateway Strategy2013 / J. Harrison
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Integrating place-specific livelihood and equity outcomes into global assessments of bioenergy deployment2013 / Felix Creutzig, Esteve Corbera, Simon Bolwig, Carol Hunsberger
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Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure2013 / Vanesa Castán Broto, Harriet Bulkeley
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Decolonizing hybridity: indigenous video, knowledge, and diffraction2012 / L. C. Smith
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Engineering in Solidarity: Hybridizing Knowledge Systems in Humanitarian and International Development Work
Abstract Engineers have a unique and powerful role to play in solidarity with communities engaged in environment and resource related struggles. By translating between technocratic-bureaucratic and local-traditional knowledge systems, engineers can...
2015 / Syed Imran Ali