Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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The Changing Structures of Co-invention Networks in American Urban Areas
Abstract Theories of localized knowledge exchange argue that proximity among economic actors in spatial clusters fosters invention and innovation. An alternative perspective stresses collaborative networks in which individuals and groups are...
2016 / Der-Shiuan Lee -
Impacts on Land Use Characteristics from Fixed Link Projects: Four Case Studies from Norway
Abstract Infrastructure projects with large increase in accessibility, often experience over- or underestimation in traffic volume prognosis. This has been the case in several fixed link projects in Norway. Fixed link projects replaces ferry...
2016 / Stig Nyland Andersen, Øyvind Lervik Nilsen, María Díez Gutiérrez, Trude Tørset -
Spatializing 6,000 years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 20002016 / Meredith Reba, Femke Reitsma, Karen C. Seto
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Living Lab and Cities as Smart Specialisation Strategies Engine
Abstract The paper reflects the progressive attention given to Smart Specialization Strategies (S3) in boosting the implementation of Europe 2020 strategy at regional and local level. The aim is to focus on the potentials that the so-called Living...
2016 / Carmelina Bevilacqua, Pasquale Pizzimenti -
A comparison of energy systems in Birmingham, UK, with Masdar City, an embryonic city in Abu Dhabi Emirate
Abstract Energy is a vital resource in modern life. With increasingly limited availability of traditional energy resources, e.g., oil, coal and nuclear, together with environmental concerns, there is raised awareness that energy needs to be both...
2016 / Susan E. Lee, Peter Braithwaite, Joanne M. Leach, Chris D.F. Rogers -
Reclaim Street Space! – Exploit the European Potential of Car Sharing
Abstract Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMPs) are a core element of the European Commission's Urban Mobility Package. A bundle of measures combines infrastructure; clean fuels and vehicles; and soft measures to promote walking, cycling and...
2016 / Michael Glotz-Richter -
The hidden hyperbolic geometry of international trade: World Trade Atlas 1870–20132016 / Guillermo García-Pérez, Marián Boguñá, Antoine Allard, M. Ángeles Serrano
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Of plants, high lines and horses: Civic groups and designers in the relational articulation of values of urban natures
Abstract This paper addresses three interventions into urban green spaces—a wetland in Cape Town, a post-industrial site in New York, and a park outside London. Through their different contexts, they help to grasp a wider phenomenon: the protection...
2016 / Hanna Erixon Aalto, Henrik Ernstson -
How Safe are Cyclists on European Roads?
Abstract Cyclists, while relatively small in proportion with respect to motorized vehicles, have a high level of vulnerability, creating a significant need to better understand the characteristics specific to this user group. A good insight into the ...
2016 / Petros Evgenikos, George Yannis, Katerina Folla, Robert Bauer, Klaus Machata, et al. -
Images of alcoholism among adolescents in individualistic and collectivistic geographies2014 / Sara Rolando, Anu Katainen
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Economic Benefits of Increased Cycling
Abstract Cycling is not only improving the livability of cities, public health, air quality, or the CO2 balance, it also creates “hard economic value and jobs”. It is therefore a perfect tool for transition in the transport sector, providing a large ...
2016 / Thomas Blondiau, Bruno van Zeebroeck, Holger Haubold -
The Research of China Urban Efficiency Based on Suomi-NPP Night-time Light Data
Abstract China is the fastest urbanizing area in the world. Nowadays, increasingly complex urban systems not only create more socioeconomic output (such as GDP), but also bring more infrastructural costs, which intensifies the contradiction between...
2016 / Wenjia Wu, Hongrui Zhao, Hao Wang, Shulong Jiang -
Deurbanisation and Mobility
Abstract This article is considering impacts of urban spread on built-up area and mobility. It describes urban and social changes of spread of urbanized areas, while the number of residents does not grow, since in Slovakia, similarly in neighbouring ...
2016 / Marian Gogola, Marta Hocova -
China’s different spatial patterns of population growth based on the “Hu Line”2016 / Wei Qi, Shenghe Liu, Meifeng Zhao, Zhen Liu
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New Findings in the Netherlands about Induced Demand and the Benefits of New Road Infrastructure
Abstract The increase in traffic volume that arises after opening of new road infrastructure, is often attributed to ‘induced demand’. The objective of this study is to provide empirically derived insights in this phenomenon, in the amount of...
2016 / Han van der Loop, Rinus Haaijer, Jasper Willigers -
Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance
Abstract We use an augmented version of the UK Innovation Surveys 4–7 to explore firm-level and local area openness externalities on firms’ innovation performance. We find strong evidence of the value of external knowledge acquisition both through...
2016 / Stephen Roper, James H. Love, Karen Bonner -
Modelling loyalty and behavioural change intentions of busway passengers: A case study of Brisbane, Australia
Abstract Understanding public transport passengers' loyalty has received growing research attention, given its potential to inform the long-term market management of a public transport service. However, the nature of public transport passengers'...
2016 / Sui Tao, Jonathan Corcoran, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano -
Challenges for Transportation Planning and Organization in the Stockholm Region
Abstract The current model for regional infrastructure and urban planning in the Stockholm Region emerged over the early post-war decades. It is a model that proved to be inadequate already early on. That the model does not work is partly due to the ...
2016 / Björn Hasselgren, Tore Englén -
A multi-modal network approach to model public transport accessibility impacts of bicycle-train integration policies2016 / Karst T. Geurs, Lissy La Paix, Sander Van Weperen
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Home-based Enterprises Approach for Post Disaster Housing: Learnt from Post Disaster Redevelopment Programme in Developing Countries
Abstract According to Lizzaralde et al (2010), in rebuilding a post-disaster housing has similarity with an informal upgrading settlement approach in developing countries. In gaining a successful informal upgrading settlement programme, one of the...
2016 / Wido Prananing Tyas