Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Expectations as a key to understanding actor strategies in the field of fuel cell and hydrogen vehicles
Abstract Due to its environmental impact, the mobility system is increasingly under pressure. The challenges to cope with climate change, air quality, depleting fossil resources imply the need for a transition of the current mobility system towards...
2012 / Björn Budde, Floortje Alkemade, K. Matthias Weber -
Spatial association techniques for analysing trip distribution in an urban area2012 / Gabriella Mazzulla, Carmen Forciniti
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The European CCS Demonstration Project Network — A forum for first movers
Abstract The European CCS Demonstration Project Network was initiated by the European Commission in 2009. The main objective of the network is to accelerate development of CCS technologies by creating a forum for exchange and dissemination of new...
2011 / Simon J. Bennett, Michael Kelleher, Eelco Kruizinga, Steinar Thon, Olafr Røsnes -
Challenges of Fire Fighting in Fire Engineered Built Environment
Abstract Performance based fire engineering design, as opposed to the traditional approach of satisfying highly prescriptive rules, is increasingly being taken up by clients and their professional advisers, including architects and engineers,...
2011 / Y C Wang, J Marsden, M Kelly -
Transport poverty meets the digital divide: accessibility and connectivity in rural communities
Abstract Rural communities face a range of challenges associated with accessibility and connectivity which apply in both the physical and virtual sphere. Constraints in rural transport infrastructure and services are often compounded by limitations...
2012 / Nagendra R. Velaga, Mark Beecroft, John D. Nelson, David Corsar, Peter Edwards -
Urban mosquitoes, situational publics, and the pursuit of interspecies separation in Dar es Salaam2014 / ANN H. KELLY, JAVIER LEZAUN
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Up in the air: Barriers to greener air traffic control and infrastructure lock-in in a complex socio-technical system
Abstract Greater automation of air traffic control (ATC) could reduce aviation's climate change impacts, but improvements predicted long ago have been slow to happen. This resistance to ATC modernisation is framed as an issue of lock-in, and the...
2014 / Graham Spinardi -
The industrialisation challenge for Africa: Towards a commodities based industrialisation path
Abstract Since the turn of the millennium many African economies have been reintegrated into the world economy on a positive note and experienced substantial economic growth. This growth has primarily been concentrated in commodity exports. The...
2014 / Mike Morris, Judith Fessehaie -
Socioeconomic segregation in UK (secondary) schools: are index measures still useful?2013 / Martin Watts
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Dancing on the graves: Independence, hot/banal nationalism and the mobilization of memory
Abstract Nationalism is frequently considered as an extreme, ‘hot’ phenomenon related to often violent nation/state-building processes. Billig’s Banal Nationalism turned the attention to how nationalism is also ‘flagged’ and routinely reproduced in...
2015 / Anssi Paasi -
Care in the (critical) making. Open prototyping, or the radicalisation of independent-living politics
Abstract In this paper, we reflect empirically on some collective attempts at intervening the ways in which care for and by disabled people is being devised and carried out in Spain in austerity times. We highlight the novelties and challenges of...
2015 / Tomás Sánchez Criado, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt, Arianna Mencaroni -
On the electrification of road transportation – A review of the environmental, economic, and social performance of electric two-wheelers
Abstract Electrification is widely considered as a viable strategy for reducing the oil dependency and environmental impacts of road transportation. In pursuit of this strategy, most attention has been paid to electric cars. However, substantial,...
2015 / Martin Weiss, Peter Dekker, Alberto Moro, Harald Scholz, Martin K. Patel -
Querying and integrating spatial–temporal information on the Web of Data via time geography
Abstract The Web of Data is a rapidly growing collection of datasets from a wide range of domains, many of which have spatial–temporal aspects. Hägerstrand’s time geography has proven useful for thinking about and understanding the movements and...
2015 / Carsten Keßler, Carson J.Q. Farmer -
How might the London 2012 Olympics influence health and the determinants of health? Local newspaper analysis of pre-Games pathways and impacts2012 / M. Selvanayagam, C. Thompson, S. J. C. Taylor, S. Cummins, L. Bourke
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Retaining winners: Can policy boost high-growth entrepreneurship?
Abstract We analysed the growth impact delivered by a high-growth entrepreneurship policy initiative over a six-year period. Using an eight-year panel that started two years before the initiative was launched and propensity score matching to control ...
2015 / Erkko Autio, Heikki Rannikko -
Do inventors talk to strangers? On proximity and collaborative knowledge creation
Abstract This paper examines the characteristics of the collaborations between inventors in the United Kingdom (UK) by looking at what types of proximities – geographic, organisational, cognitive, social, and cultural–ethnic – between inventors are...
2015 / Riccardo Crescenzi, Max Nathan, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose -
The (Big) Data-security assemblage: Knowledge and critique2015 / C. Aradau, T. Blanke
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Six challenges in modelling for public health policy
Abstract The World Health Organisation's definition of public health refers to all organized measures to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole (World Health Organization, 2014). Mathematical modelling...
2014 / C.J.E. Metcalf, W.J. Edmunds, J. Lessler -
Defining Correlation between the Modal Split of Inhabitants and Students and the Location of Housing Areas and Schools with the Analysis of Travel Plans
Abstract Across the world there is an increasing interest in managing car traffic. One approach developed for addressing the journey to work is known as ‘workplace travel planning’. In the recent years the authors participated in two Intelligent...
2014 / Petra Szakonyi, Emese Makó -
A biographical approach to studying individual change and continuity in walking and cycling over the life course
Abstract Most research studies seeking to understand walking and cycling behaviours have used cross-sectional data to explain inter-individual differences at a particular point in time. Investigations of individual walking and cycling over time are...
2014 / Heather Jones, Kiron Chatterjee, Selena Gray