Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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The Relationship between People and Urban Screen in an Urban Space
Abstract New media urban screens are found in many city spaces. This public image today has replaced the former public spaces where social communication used to take place. This paper attempts to reveal the relationship between people and urban...
2012 / Basauli Umar Lubis, Litta Primasari -
Analysis of Bicycle Commuter Routes Using GPSs and GIS
Abstract This paper reports on the information obtained by analyzing actual urban bicycle-commuter routes in a Brazilian medium-sized city using Global Positioning Systems (GPSs) for collecting the data and a Geographic Information System (GIS) for...
2014 / Ana Beatriz Pereira Segadilha, Suely da Penha Sanches -
The impact of mobility scooters on their users. Does their usage help or hinder?: A state of the art review
Abstract As older people start to have difficulty in walking many choose to use a mobility scooter to help them move around. Benefitting from improved design, mobility scooters are becoming an increasingly popular mobility device and are a common...
2015 / Roselle Thoreau -
Disability prevalence and disability-related employment gaps in the UK 1998–2012: Different trends in different surveys?
Abstract The persistently low employment rate among disabled individuals has been an enduring concern of governments across developed countries and has been the subject of a succession of policy initiatives, including labour market activation...
2015 / Ben Baumberg, Melanie Jones, Victoria Wass -
What interventions increase commuter cycling? A systematic review2015 / Glenn Stewart, Nana Kwame Anokye, Subhash Pokhrel
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Hyper-precarious lives: Migrants, work and forced labour in the Global North2014 / H. Lewis, P. Dwyer, S. Hodkinson, L. Waite
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Large-scale spatial population databases in infectious disease research2012 / Catherine Linard, Andrew J Tatem
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The appeal of neo-fascism in times of crisis. The experience of CasaPound Italia2014 / Pietro Castelli Gattinara, Caterina Froio, Matteo Albanese
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The rise of territorial eco-certifications: New politics of transnational sustainability governance in the fishery sector
Abstract Eco-certifications have become an important site of power struggles in commodity sectors such as forestry, fisheries, aquaculture, palm oil, and soy. In each, multiple eco-certification initiatives have been developed and resisted through...
2015 / Paul Foley, Elizabeth Havice -
Building a framework for theory-based ethnographies for studying intergenerational family food practices
Abstract The growing rates of (childhood) obesity worldwide are a source concern for health professionals, policy-makers, and researchers. The increasing prevalence of associated diseases—such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and psychological...
2015 / Sanne Siete Visser, Inge Hutter, Hinke Haisma -
The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands (1595–1630), written by Daniel Strum2015 / Dale Tomich
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Designing virtuous socio-ecological cycles for biodiversity conservation
Abstract Increasing the pace and scale of biodiversity conservation in a human-dominated world requires conservationists to effect systemic change in complex and dynamic socio-ecological systems. Recently, Morrison (2015) introduced a conceptual...
2016 / Scott A. Morrison -
Developing 'process pragmatism to underpin engaged research in human geography2016 / L. Harney, J. McCurry, J. Scott, J. Wills
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Climate Change, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Abstract The environmental and health consequences of climate change, which disproportionately affect low-income countries and poor people in high-income countries, profoundly affect human rights and social justice. Environmental consequences...
2015 / Barry S. Levy, Jonathan A. Patz -
Workshop Synthesis: Measuring Attitudes; Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
Abstract In this paper, we present the discussion and main findings from the ISCTSC Workshop B3, which focused on measuring the role of attitudes and perceptions in people's travel choices. The paper considers various issues concerning the design...
2015 / Juan-Antonio Carrasco, Karen Lucas -
Post-trafficking bordering practices: Perverse co-production, marking and stretching borders
Abstract This paper highlights the significance of post-trafficking scenarios for understanding bordering practices in political geography. In so doing, it addresses two significant research gaps: the lack of attention to trafficking in geography...
2015 / Nina Laurie, Diane Richardson, Meena Poudel, Janet Townsend -
Sustainable Urban Freight Systems and Freight Demand Management
Abstract The paper defines the field of Freight Demand Management (FDM) and positions it in the broad range of public sector initiatives aimed at improving urban freight activity. To illustrate the magnitude of the impacts of FDM, the paper...
2016 / José Holguín-Veras, Iván Sánchez-Díaz, Michael Browne -
On the Short-term Prediction of Traffic State: An Application on Urban Freeways in ROME
Abstract This paper explores the traffic state estimation on freeways in urban areas combining point-based and route-based data in order to properly feed a second order traffic flow model, recursively corrected by an Extended Kalman Filter. In order ...
2015 / L. Mannini, S. Carrese, E. Cipriani, U. Crisalli -
Physical Activity through Sustainable Transport Approaches (PASTA): a study protocol for a multicentre project2016 / Regine Gerike, Audrey de Nazelle, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Luc Int Panis, Esther Anaya, et al.
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Getting to know the island: Artistic experiments in rural community development
Abstract This paper makes an original contribution to our understandings of the relational role of artistic practice as part of rural community development. Art-led initiatives are now commonplace in rural development strategies. However, the...
2015 / Julie Crawshaw, Menelaos Gkartzios