Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
-
Modeling the Commuting Travel Activities within Historic Districts in Chinese Cities2014 / Mao Ye, Miao Yu, Zhibin Li, Fengjun Yin, Qizhou Hu
-
Regional distribution of photovoltaic deployment in the UK and its determinants: A spatial econometric approach
Abstract Photovoltaic (PV) panels offer significant potential for contributing to the UK's energy policy goals relating to decarbonisation of the energy system, security of supply and affordability. The substantive drop in the cost of panels since...
2015 / Nazmiye Balta-Ozkan, Julide Yildirim, Peter M. Connor -
Influence of GPS and Self-reported Data in Travel Demand Models
Abstract Data on household travel patterns represent key information to the development of travel demand models. The technology of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) may substitute or be used in association with traditional data collection approaches. ...
2014 / Marcelle D. Ribeiro, Ana M. Larrañaga, Julian Arellana, Helena B.B. Cybis -
Trade And Environment: A Historical Perspective2015 / Sorin Burnete, Choomta Pilasluck
-
The Potential of Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) and its Opportunity in Bandung Metropolitan Area
Abstract Development of TOD is done partially in Bandung Metropolitan Area. The transportation system development plans and the spatial plans are not the basis of TOD development. The research problem in this study is the prerequisite of TOD which...
2015 / Ni Luh Asti Widyahari, Petrus N. Indradjati -
The politics of niche-regime conflicts: Distributed solar energy in the United States
Abstract In the U.S. utilities have attempted to slow the growth of distributed generation (DG) solar by reversing policy support, and they have greater financial and political resources than the solar industry. Empirical analysis of all major cases ...
2015 / David J. Hess -
Logics of rurality: Political rhetoric about the Swedish North
Abstract A recurring question in regional and national politics in Sweden is how Norrland – a sparsely populated and partly declining region in the north of the country – will be able to survive in the long run. The answer to this question varies...
2015 / Bo Nilsson, Anna Sofia Lundgren -
Long-Run Demand for Energy Services: Income and Price Elasticities over Two Hundred Years2014 / R. Fouquet
-
Climate Change Denial Books and Conservative Think Tanks: Exploring the Connection2013 / R. E. Dunlap, P. J. Jacques
-
Hard to miss, easy to blame? Peacelines, interfaces and political deaths in Belfast during the Troubles
Abstract As Northern Ireland moves further from the period of conflict known as the ‘Troubles’, attention has increasingly focussed on the social and material vestiges of that conflict; Northern Ireland is still a deeply-divided society in terms of...
2014 / Niall Cunningham, Ian Gregory -
Soviet geographers and the Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945: Lev Berg and Andrei Grigor'ev
Abstract The significance of the Second World War for Soviet geography was somewhat different from that in much of the West. In the USSR, as a result of the 1917 Russian Revolution and, more particularly, of Joseph Stalin's ‘Great Turn’ implemented...
2014 / Denis J.B. Shaw, Jonathan D. Oldfield -
Conflicting messages? The IPCC on conflict and human security
Abstract Violence seems to be on a long-term decline in the international system. The possibility that climate change would create more violent conflict was mentioned in scattered places in the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports from the...
2014 / Nils Petter Gleditsch, Ragnhild Nordås -
Carbon capture and storage in context: The importance of state policy and discourse in deploying emerging energy technologies
Abstract As a technology that may involve new risks, large-scale infrastructure, and significant government involvement, carbon capture and storage (CCS) faces a wide variety of deployment challenges. Because energy policy in the U.S. is negotiated...
2009 / Elizabeth J. Wilson, Jennie C. Stephens, Tarla Rai Peterson, Miriam Fischlein -
A call for international soil experiment networks for studying, predicting, and managing global change impacts2015 / M. S. Torn, A. Chabbi, P. Crill, P. J. Hanson, I. A. Janssens, et al.
-
The making of urban ‘healtheries’: the transformation of cemeteries and burial grounds in late-Victorian East London
Abstract This paper focuses on the conversion of disused burial grounds and cemeteries into gardens and playgrounds in East London from around the 1880s through to the end of the century. In addition to providing further empirical depth, especially...
2013 / Tim Brown -
Elucidating the pathways between climate change, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
A rapid review of the current literature on the links between climate change, ecosystem services (ES) and poverty alleviation has identified 41 papers. Of these, 19 were considered relevant as they specifically discussed the linkages between ES and poverty and the ...
2013 / Caroline Howe, Helen Suich, Paul van Gardingen, Atiq Rahman, Georgina M Mace -
Human Sustainable Urbanism: In Pursuit of Ecological and Social-Cultural Sustainability
Abstract At a time of uncontrolled globalization, there is an urgent need for a radical shift towards a holistic strategy for sustainable urbanism. This calls for sensitivity to the traditional urbanism and impact of global ideas, practices and...
2012 / Derya Oktay -
The spatial implications of the functional proximity deriving from air passenger flows between European metropolitan urban regions2008 / Malcolm C. Burns, Josep Roca Cladera, Montserrat Moix Bergadà
-
The vulnerability of the European air traffic network to spatial hazards2011 / Sean M. Wilkinson, Sarah Dunn, Shu Ma
-
How is climate change used to define English regions?
Abstract This study examines how the science of climate change has helped to socially construct eight of the nine English standard regions (excluding London). This is placed within the context of regional actors whose primary concern is one of...
2011 / Frances Drake