Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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How will Dhaka grow spatially in future?-Modelling its urban growth with a near-future planning scenario perspective
Abstract Being the primate city of Bangladesh, higher population growth and inward migration from rural areas is making Dhaka to experience an unprecedented level of urbanisation. This has brought two-fold implications-pushing it high up the...
2015 / Sohel Ahmed, Glen Bramley -
Platforms in service-driven manufacturing: Leveraging complexity by connecting, sharing, and integrating
Abstract Service-driven manufacturing firms often rely on networks in service operations; however, in order to leverage the network approach, firms must address the challenges of managing and orchestrating complex inter-organizational relationships. ...
2015 / Ville Eloranta, Taija Turunen -
End-user centred infrastructure operation: towards integrated end-use service delivery
Abstract Reliable provision of water, energy and transportation, all supplied through infrastructure, is necessary for the most basic human and economic development to occur. Such development however, is not enabled by specific end-use products...
2015 / Christof Knoeri, Julia K. Steinberger, Katy Roelich -
STI and DUI innovation modes: Scientific-technological and context-specific nuances
Abstract In this paper, we join the debate on business innovation modes that originates from the wider literature on innovation systems. These specific contributions identify and study the impact of different innovation modes, particularly the mode...
2016 / Mario Davide Parrilli, Henar Alcalde Heras -
Related and unrelated variety as regional drivers of enterprise productivity and innovation: A multilevel study
Abstract We conduct multilevel analyses of Norwegian data and find that related industrial variety is a positive regional driver of enterprise innovation. Unrelated variety is a negative regional driver of enterprise productivity. This implies that...
2016 / Jarle Aarstad, Olav A. Kvitastein, Stig-Erik Jakobsen -
Small-scale hydropower in the Netherlands: Problems and strategies of system builders
Abstract Small-scale hydroelectricity (hydel) currently receives worldwide attention as a clean, green, and socially just energy technology. People generally assume that downsizing hydel plants reduces harmful impacts. However, recent debates call...
2016 / Tanja N. Manders, Johanna I. Höffken, Erik B.A. van der Vleuten -
Associations between the neighbourhood built environment and out of school physical activity and active travel: An examination from the Kids in the City study
Abstract This study's aim was to examine selected objectively-measured and child specific built environment attributes in relation to proportion of out-of-school time spent in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (%MVPA) and active travel in a...
2015 / Melody Oliver, Suzanne Mavoa, Hannah Badland, Karl Parker, Phil Donovan, et al. -
Domestic water and sanitation as water security: monitoring, concepts and strategy2013 / D. J. Bradley, J. K. Bartram
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A Web-Based Diary and Companion Smartphone app for Travel/Activity Surveys
Abstract This paper details the development and deployment of an online seven day travel/activity diary and companion smartphone app in Sydney, Australia. The diary employs several innovative features to simplify data entry, while the app generates...
2015 / Stephen Greaves, Adrian Ellison, Richard Ellison, Dean Rance, Chris Standen, et al. -
What Happens When Corporate Ownership Shifts to China? A Case Study on Rubber Production in Cameroon2015 / S Assembe-Mvondo, P O Cerutti, L Putzel, R Eba'a Atyi
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Modeling Spillover Effects of Leapfrog Development and Urban Sprawl upon Institutional Delinquencies: A Case for Pakistan
Abstract Land conversion from forest & agricultural to industrial & residential has raised serious concerns for Urban Sprawl in Pakistan, causing Institutional polarization and delinquencies. This has inadvertent outcomes for sustainability...
2016 / Syed Toqueer Akhter, Muhammad Hammad Noon -
Added value from European Territorial Co-operation: the impact of demographic change in the Alps on the young2015 / Naja Marot, Damjana Gantar, Barbara Černič Mali
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Location choice of Chinese urban fringe residents on employment, housing, and urban services: A case study of Nanjing
Abstract Urban fringe area is the most important space for city development. It includes several complicated elements, such as population, space, and management organization. On the basis of local population attributes in the city fringe area...
2016 / Xingping Wang, Pan Hu, Yi Zhu -
Place Meaning of the Historic Square as Tourism Attraction and Community Leisure Space
Abstract Squares serve as an integral civic space in cities where historic events and socializing activities take place.Theyare an attraction for locals and tourists alike. However, some historic squares go through physical transformations to meet...
2015 / Khalilah Zakariya, Nor Zalina Harun, Mazlina Mansor -
Applying the lens of sensory ethnography to sustainable HCI2016 / Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Val Mitchell, Marcus Hanratty, Carolina Escobar-Tello, et al.
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A General Framework to Testing the Effect of Transport Policy Measures to Achieve a Modal Shift: A Sequential Hybrid Model
Abstract In order to achieve to minimize car-based trips, transport planners have been particularly interested in understanding the factors that explain modal choices. In the transport modelling literature there has been an increasing awareness that ...
2014 / Julio Comendador, Andrés Monzón, María Eugenia López-Lambas -
The Parcel Industry in the Spatial Organization of Logistics Activities in the Paris Region: Inherited Spatial Patterns and Innovations in Urban Logistics Systems
Abstract The aim of this paper is to study the location of the parcel industry, and its place in the spatial organization of logistics activities in the Paris Region. In particular, we wish to compare the location of the parcel industry to the...
2016 / Adeline Heitz, Adrien Beziat -
Inextinguishable Fibres: Demolition and the Vital Materialisms of Asbestos2010 / Nicky Gregson, Helen Watkins, Melania Calestani
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The Roles of Customary Institutions in Adaptation and Coping to Climate Change and Variability among the Issa, Ittu and Afar Pastoralists of eastern Ethiopia2016 / Bamlaku Tadesse, Fekadu Beyene, Workneh Kassa, Richard Wentzell
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Re-conceptualizing the Anthropocene: A call for collaboration
Abstract Since it was first proposed in 2000, the concept of the Anthropocene has evolved in breadth and diversely. The concept encapsulates the new and unprecedented planetary-scale changes resulting from societal transformations and has brought to ...
2016 / Eduardo S. Brondizio, Karen O’Brien, Xuemei Bai, Frank Biermann, Will Steffen, et al.