Social and economic geography topic list of research papers
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Evolutionary analysis of innovation and entrepreneurship: Sidney G. Winter—recipient of the 2015 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research2016 / Ammon J. Salter, Maureen McKelvey
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Small Border Traffic and Cross-Border Tourism Between Poland and the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation2014 / Renata Anisiewicz, Tadeusz Palmowski
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Ethics of care across professional and everyday positionalities: The (un)expected impacts of participatory video with young female carers in Slovakia
Abstract The paper offers a critical intervention into the debates on research impact, theorising the potential of underpinning research agendas by ethics of care. We explore how a range of vectors of care, both intimate and distant, emerged in...
2015 / Matej Blazek, Fiona M. Smith, Miroslava Lemešová, Petra Hricová -
Rural livelihood diversification and household well-being: Insights from Humla, Nepal
Abstract Diversification of livelihoods is a commonly applied strategy for coping with economic and environmental shocks and instrumental in poverty reduction. In this paper, we have assessed the role of livelihood diversification in household...
2016 / Yograj Gautam, Peter Andersen -
The City's Creative Writing: From Morphology to Virtual Landscape
Abstract We accept the city much as it is. We can criticize it; we can avoid it; and we can escape from it. But we can also accept that the city “writes” its daily history: with us, about us, by us, against us, and its writing is perennial and...
2014 / Angelica Stan -
Local Building Materials: Affordable Strategy for Housing the Urban Poor in Nigeria
Abstract The rate of urbanization in Nigeria has witnessed tremendous increase in the last five decades. Census in the early Fifties showed that there were about 56 cities in the country and about 10.6 percent of the total population lived in these...
2015 / Iwuagwu Ben Ugochukwu, M. Iwuagwu Ben Chioma -
Governing cities reflexively—The biocultural diversity concept as an alternative to ecosystem services
Abstract With the aim to embed ecology more forcefully into decision-making, the concept of Ecosystems Services (ES) has gained significant ground among policy-makers and researchers. The increasing recognition of the importance of urban green areas ...
2016 / Marleen Buizer, Birgit Elands, Kati Vierikko -
Globalisation, academic capitalism, and the uneven geographies of international journal publishing spaces2005 / Anssi Paasi
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Are scenarios of hydrogen vehicle adoption optimistic? A comparison with historical analogies
Abstract There is a large literature exploring possible hydrogen futures, using various modelling and scenario approaches. This paper compares the rates of transition depicted in that literature with a set of historical analogies. These analogies...
2015 / Will McDowall -
A Smart Card Transaction “Travel Diary” to Assess the Accuracy of the Montréal Household Travel Survey
Abstract This paper proposes to use a smart-card (SC) based “travel diary” to assess the accuracy of a household travel survey (HTS) in which respondents are not asked to provide their smart card number. Using a single day of travel survey data, a...
2015 / Timothy Spurr, Alfred Chu, Robert Chapleau, Daniel Piché -
Urban Appropriation: Creativity in Marginalization
Abstract This paper aims to investigate the subtle dialog, or possibly interaction, between the duality of the “formal” and the “informal” in high-density environment. Marginalized people are continuously reinventing their understanding of space and ...
2015 / Ivan Nasution -
Towards Habitat III: Confronting the disjuncture between global policy and local practice on Africa's ‘challenge of slums’
Abstract The ‘challenge of slums’ is a global challenge, but particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa where in 2001 71.9% of the urban population lived in slums. This article reviews the housing programmes of a selected number of African countries...
2015 / Sylvia Croese, Liza Rose Cirolia, Nick Graham -
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2015 / Diana T. Kudaibergenova -
Open data for informal settlements: Toward a user׳s guide for urban managers and planners
Abstract Informal settlements exist in a legally contested space and the quality of – and access to – information about them has been historically limited. The open data movement promises to address this gap by offering alternative sources for...
2015 / Arnab Chakraborty, Bev Wilson, Saket Sarraf, Arnab Jana -
Towards intimate geographies of peace? Local reconciliation of domestic violence in Cambodia2015 / Katherine Brickell
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Disruptive Innovation in Digital Mining
Abstract Mining companies are shifting their strategies and adopting new business and operating models to include new technologies and are doing so on a more rapid and global basis than ever before. A combination of market volatility, changing...
2016 / Clau Sganzerla, Constantino Seixas, Alexander Conti -
Globalising sustainable urbanism: the role of international masterplanners2014 / Elizabeth Rapoport
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Wild cards in transport2015 / Aharon Hauptman, Merja Hoppe, Yoel Raban
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Dynamics and local policy in labour commuting2012 / Samo Drobne, Marija Bogataj, Anka Lisec
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Film Festivals in Łódź as a Main Component of Urban Cultural Tourism2011 / Waldemar Cudny