Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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A political ecology of scaling: Struggles over power, land and authority
Abstract This paper integrates insights from political ecology with a politics of scaling to discuss the construction and transformation of scalar topographies as part of the politics and power dynamics of natural resource management. The paper...
2016 / Kathryn E. Green -
Climate Change, "Technology" and Gender: "Adapting Women" to Climate Change with Cooking Stoves and Water Reservoirs2016 / N. Gonda
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Evaluating presentation formats of local climate change in community planning with regard to process and outcomes
Abstract This study synthesizes two evaluations of a local climate change planning process in a rural town in British Columbia (Canada), which was supported through landscape visualizations. First, the impact of the visualizations, based on...
2015 / Olaf Schroth, Ellen Pond, Stephen R.J. Sheppard -
Social Work Practice With Local Communities in Developing Countries: Imperatives for Political Engagement2014 / M. Pawar
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Criteria of the Efficiency of Symbolic Attributes of Power in the World Wide Web
Abstract The work is devoted to the thesis that modern communication channels can be used for the increase of political influence due to the fact that the Internet has obviously been gaining power and is widely used and adopted. It supports the idea ...
2015 / Natalia Lukyanova, Natalia Daneikina, Yury Daneykin -
Qualitative Methods for Investigating Transport and Mobility Issues among Commonly Socially Excluded Populations: A Case Study of Co-investigation with Older People in Rural Tanzania
Abstract Qualitative research on transport and mobilities in development contexts is relatively sparse. Following a preliminary discussion of qualitative approaches developed by the first author when researching transport-related issues with...
2015 / Gina Porter, Amleset Tewodros, Flavian Bifandimu, Amanda Heslop, Mark Gorman -
Is the Pro-Network Bias Justified?: Outsourcers, Small Batch Production, and Advanced Manufacturing Technology2013 / R. Pardo, R. Rama
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Towards an Agent-based, Integrated Land-use Transport Modeling System
Abstract This paper reports on initial steps of an integration of the microscopic land-use simulation system SILO (Simple Integrated Land- Use Orchestrator) and the agent-based transport simulation system MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation)....
2016 / Dominik Ziemke, Kai Nagel, Rolf Moeckel -
Extracting Activity-travel Diaries from GPS Data: Towards Integrated Semi-automatic Imputation
Abstract This paper presents an integrated approach to extracting activity-travel diaries from GPS data. The imputation involves a semi-automatic procedure of transportation mode and activity type recognition, and applies full and partial...
2014 / Tao Feng, Harry J.P. Timmermans -
Production costs of the non-ferrous metals in the EU and other countries: Copper and zinc
Abstract Our study compares production costs of the non-ferrous metals (NFM) industry in the European Union (EU) and other countries in order to understand whether these costs are higher in Europe. Our analysis focuses on copper and zinc, since they ...
2016 / Aikaterini Boulamanti, Jose Antonio Moya -
The stability of geodemographic cluster assignments over an intercensal period2016 / Alexander Singleton, Michail Pavlis, Paul A. Longley
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The Impact of Gated and Guarded Development Concept from the Social Aspect: Non Resident Perspective
Abstract Gated and Guarded Development Concept (GACOS) offers competent security and maintenance besides ensuring an exclusive and private lifestyle. Despite the rise in the number of GACOS developments, they are mired in various issues and...
2015 / Thuraiya Mohd, Noraini Johari, Rohaya Abdul Ghani, Nor Azalina Yusnita A. Rahman -
Validation of Automatic Vehicle Location Data in Public Transport Systems
Abstract Performance metrics for public transport systems can be calculated from automatic vehicle location (AVL) data but data collection subsystems can introduce errors into the data which would invalidate these calculations, giving rise to...
2015 / Stephen Gilmore, Daniël Reijsbergen -
A Preliminary Analysis Over the Factors Related with the Possession of an Electric Bike
Abstract In recent decades different studies focused on how to incentivize a shift from car to bicycle. In this context the electric bike is gaining more and more popularity. Because of its higher speed and longer reach, the e-bike could be an...
2015 / Paola Astegiano, Chris M.J. Tampère, Carolien Beckx -
From built environment to health inequalities: An explanatory framework based on evidence
Abstract Objective: The Health in All Policies strategy aims to engage every policy domain in health promotion. The more socially disadvantaged groups are usually more affected by potential negative impacts of policies if they...
2015 / Elena Gelormino, Giulia Melis, Cristina Marietta, Giuseppe Costa -
Making headway in climate policy mainstreaming and ecosystem-based adaptation: two pioneering countries, different pathways, one goal2016 / Christine Wamsler, Stephan Pauleit
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Physical Internet Enabled Hyperconnected City Logistics
Abstract City Logistics and Physical Internet are two major concepts aiming to profoundly change freight transportation and logistics for increased economic, environmental and societal efficiency and sustainability. They share several basic ideas...
2016 / Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Benoit Montreuil -
Globalization and Landscape Architecture: A Review of the Literature2014 / R. R. Hewitt
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Review: The Myth of American Eclipse: The New Global Age, Global Challenge and Local Response: Initiatives for Economic Regeneration in Contemporary Europe, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Postimperial Britain2013 / G Ó Tuathail, M Mayer, J Agnew
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INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON TRANSPORT, ENERGY AND GREENHOUSE GASES2014 / Martin E.H. LEE-GOSSELIN, Yves CROZET, Charles RAUX, Joseph DOUCET