Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Crash prediction model for two-lane rural highways in the Ashanti region of Ghana
Abstract Crash Prediction Models (CPMs) have been used elsewhere as a useful tool by road Engineers and Planners. There is however no study on the prediction of road traffic crashes on rural highways in Ghana. The main objective of the study was to...
2011 / Williams Ackaah, Mohammed Salifu -
Will Privacy Concerns Associated with Future Transport Systems Restrict the Public's Freedom of Movement?
Abstract The creation of wide-area real-time monitoring systems for the road network has the potential to achieve a step change in both, our understanding of the evolution of congestion and forecasting/information to minimise its economic...
2012 / Scott Cruickshanks, Ben Waterson -
Making sense of ‘gender’: From global HIV/AIDS strategy to the local Cambodian ground
Abstract Interventions aiming to promote gender equality are a common feature of global HIV/AIDS policies. To develop effective interventions, it is important to understand how globally established concepts (e.g. ‘gender’) are (re)interpreted and...
2012 / Emma-Louise Aveling -
The Urban Context of Intermodal Road-Rail Transport – Threat or Opportunity for Modal Shift?
Abstract Until recently, research did not pay much attention to the implications for intermodal road-rail transport (IRRT) arising from its urban context, and urban freight and IRRT are still handled as separate policy concerns. This paper examines...
2012 / S.önke Behrends -
Transitioning to safer streets through an integrated and inclusive design
Abstract The demand for enhanced traffic safety has been growing with rapid increases in the elderly populations of super-aging societies. To cope with the increasing rates of traffic fatalities and injuries among the elderly, co-creative thinking...
2016 / Kenji Doi, Takanori Sunagawa, Hiroto Inoi, Kento Yoh -
Population density, migration, and the returns to human capital and land: Insights from Indonesia
Abstract Rapid population growth in many developing countries has raised concerns regarding food security and household welfare. To understand the consequences of population growth in a general equilibrium setting, we examine the dynamics of...
2014 / Yanyan Liu, Futoshi Yamauchi -
The urban wage growth premium: Sorting or learning?
Abstract This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues about which the field has not yet reached a consensus: first, the extent to which sorting of high ability individuals into urban areas explains the urban...
2014 / Sabine D'Costa, Henry G. Overman -
Urban Strategies and Regional Development in the Alps2006 / Manfred Perlik, Paul Messerli
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Mountain Ecotourism and Sustainable Development2006 / Sanjay K. Nepal
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Citizen and Stakeholder Involvement: A Precondition for Sustainable Urban Mobility
Abstract Sustainable urban mobility planning, a strategic planning concept promoted by the European Commission, considers the engagement of citizens and stakeholders throughout the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (SUMP) development process as one of ...
2014 / Miriam Lindenau, Susanne Böhler-Baedeker -
Scaling-up Strategy as an Appropriate Approach for Sustainable New Town Development? Lessons from Wujin, Changzhou, China2015 / Hao Chen, Qiyan Wu, Jianquan Cheng, Zhifei Ma, Weixuan Song
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Leader in Politics and Governance: Russian Aspect
Abstract The paper analyzes the nature of the political leader's image; interaction of the political leader with different faces, sides and aspects of political life is considered; distinctness of its manifestations is identified. Analysis of the...
2015 / I.V. Zhuravleva, S.V. Zhuravlev -
Whose success? The state-foreign capital nexus and the development of the automotive industry in Slovakia2014 / P. Pavlinek
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Constructing cities, deconstructing scaling laws2014 / E. Arcaute, E. Hatna, P. Ferguson, H. Youn, A. Johansson, et al.
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Feeding and housing the urban population: Environmental impacts at the peri-urban interface under different land-use scenarios
Abstract The environmental consequences of the decision to urbanise and displace peri-urban (PU) food production are not typically evaluated within a comprehensive, cross-sectoral approach. Using a novel application of life cycle assessment (LCA)...
2015 / Alison Rothwell, Brad Ridoutt, Girija Page, William Bellotti -
Conceptualising multi-regime interactions: The role of the agriculture sector in renewable energy transitions
Abstract The agriculture sector plays an important role in renewable energy transitions, owing to its historical involvement in managing key resources, particularly land and biomass. We develop the multi-level perspective in relation to these...
2015 / Lee-Ann Sutherland, Sarah Peter, Lukas Zagata -
Power Laws for Energy Efficient and Resilient Cities
Abstract Urban complexity is a hard-to-grasp concept. This paper firstly aims at investigating this issue through the prism of scale-hierarchic distributions: fractals, power laws, Zipf's laws and Pareto distributions. Authors notably emphasize the...
2011 / Serge Salat, Loeiz Bourdic -
The social production of ecosystem services: A framework for studying environmental justice and ecological complexity in urbanized landscapes
Abstract A framework is constructed for how to relate ecosystem services to environmental justice. The benefits humans and society can derive from biophysical processes cannot be viewed as objectively existing “out there”, but as entangled in social ...
2012 / Henrik Ernstson -
Well-being and activity-based models2012 / Maya Abou-Zeid, Moshe Ben-Akiva
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Urban Empowerment Through Community Outreach in Teaching and Design
Abstract At the newly started Centre for Urban Studies in a stigmatized suburb of Gothenburg, the academic fields of teaching, social work and architecture are collaborating with the local community. This cooperation is part of the Centre's mission, ...
2012 / Jenny Stenberg, Lasse Fryk