Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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The Misconceptions of Negeri Sembilan Traditional Architecture
Abstract Negeri Sembilan's unique identity is facing gradual disappearance endangering future generation's identity's ownership as well as cultural and built environment quality due to such misconception. This paper seeks to present the findings of...
2013 / Mawar Masri -
The Role of Social Factors in Shaping Public Perceptions of CCS: Results of Multi-State Focus Group Interviews in the U.S.
Abstract Three of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships analyzed community perspectives on carbon capture and storage (CCS) through focus groups and interviews in five communities. These perspectives were ...
2009 / Judith Bradbury, Isha Ray, Tarla Peterson, Sarah Wade, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, et al. -
Risk from CO2 storage in saline aquifers: A comparison of lay and expert perceptions of risk
Abstract Public perceptions of CCS are seen as crucial in terms of the deployment. Recent opposition to CO2 storage projects, such as Vattenfall’s Schwarze Pump project in northern Germany, demonstrates that addressing public concerns is a crucial...
2011 / Sarah Mander, Debbie Polson, Thomas Roberts, Andrew Curtis -
How Have International Business Discourses on the Environment Changed over the Last Decade?2006 / P. Rutherford
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Collective Action within the Household: Insights from Natural Resource Management
Summary Households face many collective action situations, with members working together to produce livelihoods and allocate goods. But neither unitary nor bargaining models of the household provide frameworks to analyze the conditions under which...
2015 / Cheryl R. Doss, Ruth Meinzen-Dick -
Henri Lefebvre’s Concept Of Urban Space In The Context Of Preferences Of The Creative Classin A Modern City2015 / Adam Nadolny
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Adaptation of interconnected infrastructures to climate change: A socio-technical systems perspective
Abstract Climate change is likely to affect how society will function in this century. Because climate change effects may be severe, a next step is to study not only the effects on natural systems, but also the effects on built infrastructure...
2014 / Emile J.L. Chappin, Telli van der Lei -
Understanding the Dynamics of System-of-Systems in Complex Regional Conflicts
Abstract The notion of complex regional conflicts are explored from the point of view of complexity theory. Complexity reflected in conflicts relates to a strong resistancy to any kind of resolutions and presents socially, economically and...
2012 / Barbara Rapaport, Vernon Ireland -
Engaging the Quiet Mission: Civil Society in Breaking the Cycle of Violence in the Post-conflict Poso, Indonesia
Abstract This research investigates how civil society has contributed to human security, especially in the context of maintaining peace in the post-conflict society of Indonesia. Unlike former studies that have paid the most attention to the...
2015 / A. Trihartono, N. Viartasiwi -
The Role of Road Transport in Scheduled Air Cargo Networks
Abstract For the conduction of quantitative research on airfreight related topics, this contribution summarizes recent efforts to handle intra-continental airfreight surface transport operations in the context of an origin and destination routing...
2013 / Florian Heinitz, Marcus Hirschberger, Christian Werstat -
The implications of initiating immediate climate change mitigation — A potential for co-benefits?
Abstract Fragmented climate policies across parties of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change have led to the question of whether initiating significant and immediate climate change mitigation can support the achievement of other non-climate ...
2014 / Valeria Jana Schwanitz, Thomas Longden, Brigitte Knopf, Pantelis Capros -
An Empirical Study of Commuting Characteristics in Rural Areas
Abstract Gaining a better understanding of commuting characteristics in rural areas could provide urban planners and policy makers with a new insight into urban development and planning. In many cities, travellers move from urban areas to live in...
2013 / Jun Yuan, Hangfei Lin -
Making an impact: when agglomeration boosterism meets antiplanning rhetoric2014 / Graham Haughton, Iain Deas, Stephen Hincks
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Development Indicators for Mountain Regions2006 / Hermann Kreutzmann
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Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers
Abstract This paper explores the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of host country domestic firms. We rely on a specially designed survey of over 4000 manufacturing firms in Vietnam, and separate out...
2015 / Carol Newman, John Rand, Theodore Talbot, Finn Tarp -
Zero carbon homes: Perceptions from the UK construction industry
Abstract The take-up of the many voluntary energy efficiency standards which exist in the UK and internationally has been limited. As a result, governments have recognised the need to introduce mandatory schemes through legislation, e.g. from 2016...
2015 / Emma Heffernan, Wei Pan, Xi Liang, Pieter de Wilde -
Public Transport and Accessibility in Informal Settlements: Aerial Cable Cars in Medellín, Colombia
Abstract The MetroCable in Medellín, the second largest city in Colombia, is perhaps one of the most prominent recent expansions of public transport infrastructure in urban Latin America. This article explores the question how and in what ways the...
2014 / Dirk Heinrichs, Judith S. Bernet -
Marketing of Public Transport and Public Transport Information Provision
Abstract Increasing levels of car ownership have been causing problems for the governments around the world, particularly in the fields of traffic congestion and air pollution. Income growth coupled with the perception that car is the most...
2014 / Anna Ibraeva, João Figueira de Sousa -
A new method for analysing socio-ecological patterns of vulnerability2014 / Marcel Kok, Matthias Lüdeke, Paul Lucas, Till Sterzel, Carsten Walther, et al.
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The urban now: Theorising cities beyond the new2013 / J. Robinson