Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Integrated charging infrastructure: cognitive interviews to identify preferences in charging options2015 / Stephan Daubitz, Ines Kawgan-Kagan
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Top-Down and Bottom-Up Urban and Regional Planning: Towards a Framework for The Use of Planning Standards2014 / Ioannis A. Pissourios
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Calibrating a trip distribution gravity model stratified by the trip purposes for the city of Alexandria
Abstract The trip distribution is the most important yet the most misunderstood model in the Urban Transportation Planning Process (UTPP). One overlooked aspect is the different sensitivities in choosing the destinations based on the trip purposes....
2014 / Mounir Mahmoud Moghazy Abdel-Aal -
Capturing the Usage of the German Car Fleet for a One Year Period to Evaluate the Suitability of Battery Electric Vehicles – A Model based Approach
Abstract The low driving range of battery electric vehicles (BEV) is often considered as relevant reason for the low BEV sales. In order to verify this assumption, the usage of conventional cars in Germany needs to be analyzed. These analyses may...
2014 / Christine Weiss, Bastian Chlond, Michael Heilig, Peter Vortisch -
Backstage Behaviour in the Global City: Tourists and the Search for the ‘Real London’
Abstract Tourism is increasingly important to city economies and the built environment is crucial to the tourist experience of cities. Accounts in the literature tend to focus on cities responding with planned development of iconic buildings and...
2013 / Robert Maitland -
Geopolitics at the margins? Reconsidering genealogies of critical geopolitics
Abstract Critical geopolitics has become one of the most vibrant parts of political geography. However it remains a particularly western way of knowing which has been much less attentive to other traditions of thinking. This paper engages with...
2013 / Joanne P. Sharp -
Study of Impact of Various Influencing Factors on NMT Mode Choice
Abstract In the current study we bring out the impact of various social, economic, environmental, and transportation system characteristics on walk and cycle mode choice, when they are used as a main mode. The environmental factors include density...
2013 / T.M. Rahul, Ashish Verma -
Travel Behaviour and Landuse Planning: The Planning of Mosque in Shah Alam, Selangor
Abstract Mosque is an important place for the Muslim to perform religious activities and as a place for social gathering. Several studies by M. Yilmaz, 2012 and A.Kahera et al., 2009 provided with the design criteria for the optimal siting of...
2013 / Ishak Che Abdullah, Fatimah Yusof, Siti Mazwin Kamaruddin, Abdul Rauf Abdul Rasam -
The pendulum moves from Europe to Asia. Modernizing Siberia and the Far East. Economic and security issues
Abstract Under the current Presidency of Putin two main areas of concern are discernible: the modernization of defence industry and the accelerated development of Siberia and, in particular, the Far East. To a certain extent, development programmes...
2013 / Silvana Malle, Julian Cooper -
The Emerging Importance of a Mobility Strategy for South African Cities with GoMetro as a Case-Study
Abstract South Africa has an unsustainably high level of private vehicles and vehicle-kilometres, yet there is still no real visible shift to public transport in the urban areas. Public transport does not appear to be an attractive option for...
2013 / Justin Coetzee -
Adapting to Climate Change in a Dryland Mountain Environment in Kenya2006 / Bernard Owuor, Siri Eriksen, Wycliffe Mauta
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Affordances of Historic Urban Landscapes: an Ecological Understanding of Human Interaction with the Past2015 / Susana Alves
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Discovering urban activity patterns in cell phone data2015 / Peter Widhalm, Yingxiang Yang, Michael Ulm, Shounak Athavale, Marta C. González
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Assessing the trade-offs of increased mining activity in the Surat Basin, Queensland: preferences of Brisbane residents using nonmarket valuation techniques2013 / Jill Windle, John Rolfe
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SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
This paper discusses possible contributions of psychologists to sustainable transportation. It is argued that in order to reach sustainable transportation, among others, behaviour changes of individual car users are needed. As transport policies will be more...
2014 / Linda STEG -
Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective2014 / F. W. Geels
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Appropriating the city: space, theory, and bike messengers2008 / Jeffrey L. Kidder
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Partition And Reclamation Of Rural Settlements In Mining Areas: A Case Study Of Cishan Town,Wu’an In China
Abstract This article relies on the construction of new countryside background, with a view to exploring the new ways to promote ecological safety and social security in mining areas, takes into full account of regional mineral resources, rural...
2011 / Zhao Ji, Meichen Fu, Jianjun Zhang -
An analysis of the determinants of local public transport demand focusing the effects of income changes2013 / Johan Holmgren
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EnviroAtlas: A new geospatial tool to foster ecosystem services science and resource management
Abstract In this article we present EnviroAtlas, a web-based, open access tool that seeks to meet a range of needs by bringing together environmental, economic and demographic data in an ecosystem services framework. Within EnviroAtlas, there are...
2015 / Brian R. Pickard, Jessica Daniel, Megan Mehaffey, Laura E. Jackson, Anne Neale