Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Mobility perspective for a local city in Japan
Abstract Japan is now heading toward a population decrease and a highly aging society. The nationwide automobile dependency established over the past 50years has affected the country's road building policy and the formation of urban structure based...
2014 / Hirotaka Koike -
Get Active2011 / Mark Thursz
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Limits to prediction: Europeanizing technology in an expert forum2013 / Mads Dahl Gjefsen
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People as place-making coordinate: A methodology for visualizing personal spaces
Abstract The present research introduces the Activity Counter Maps (ACM) as a methodology for visualizing people's social spaces, arguing that accurate representations of these spaces are crucial for understanding the role of human activity as a...
2014 / Glen Wash Ivanovic -
Globalization and Local Resistance: The Creation of Localities in Manila and Bangkok2009 / Erhard Berner, Rüdiger Korff
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Geopolitical assemblages and complexity2013 / J. Dittmer
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The territory as an intermediate space2014 / Giovanni Maciocco
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Solar Skyways
Abstract In the autumn of 2007 a group of 200 people gathered in Uppsala, Sweden to view a prototype and explore collaboration in developing a new transportation alternative, the podcar, a small cabin on a fixed guideway operating directly above...
2014 / Ron Swenson -
Military Privatization and the Remasculinization of the State: Making the Link Between the Outsourcing of Military Security and Gendered State Transformations2013 / S. Stachowitsch
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Sustainable-responsible tourism discourse – Towards ‘responsustable’ tourism
Abstract Despite several decades of academic and practical debate on tourism sustainability, its application in practice remains difficult. The dominant tourism discourse on sustainability (theory, seen as a concept) and responsibility (practice,...
2014 / Tanja Mihalic -
Getting Smart? Climate Change and the Electric Grid2013 / Jennie Stephens, Elizabeth Wilson, Tarla Peterson, James Meadowcroft
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Conventional or alternative development? Varying meanings and purposes of territorial rural development as a strategy for the Global South2014 / K. Koop
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Measuring Workplace Travel Behaviour: Validity and Reliability of Survey Questions2013 / Nicholas A. Petrunoff, Huilan Xu, Chris Rissel, Li Ming Wen, Hidde P. van der Ploeg
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Defining clusters of related industries2015 / M. Delgado, M. E. Porter, S. Stern
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Climate and its changes: a cultural appraisal2015 / Mike Hulme
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The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system
Abstract In many of the world's growing cities, semi-formal buses form the basis of public transit systems. However, little open and standardized data exist on these systems. The Digital Matatus project in Nairobi, Kenya set out to test whether the...
2015 / Sarah Williams, Adam White, Peter Waiganjo, Daniel Orwa, Jacqueline Klopp -
Publishing priorities of biomedical research funders2013 / E. Collins
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Trading quality for relevance: non-health decision-makers' use of evidence on the social determinants of health2015 / E. McGill, M. Egan, M. Petticrew, L. Mountford, S. Milton, et al.
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The Ancillary Role of CO2 Reduction in Urban Transport Plans
Abstract Saving CO2 emissions constitutes one of the most delicate challenges of transport engineering. Coherently with EU and national directives, urban mobility and traffic plans should consider CO2 savings as one of the goals to be reached. In an ...
2014 / Silvio Nocera, Federico Cavallaro -
Regulating a global value chain with the European Union's sustainability criteria – experiences from the Swedish liquid transport biofuel sector
Abstract Despite promises that they can contribute toward more environmentally beneficial transportation there are many sustainability concerns about liquid transport biofuels. In response to pressure from civil society, the European Union (EU) has...
2015 / David Harnesk, Sara Brogaard, Philip Peck