Academic Articles & Research Papers

Human Geography and Area Research

FIRST glance it might appear that only in physical geography would a A geographer make a contribution to an area research program staffed by social scientists. Geographers, however, do not so delimit their field.' This paper focuses in part...

Human geography and the institutions that underlie economic growth

Human geography is in a unique position to understand how local structural factors shape social, political, and ultimately economic outcomes. Indeed, the discipline has had much to say about the interaction between local institutions and th...

Port geography at the crossroads with human geography: between flows and spaces

Human Geography: Culture, Society, and Space

Partial table of contents: GEOGRAPHY, CULTURE, AND ENVIRONMENT Introduction: Geography and Human Geography Cultures, Environments, and Regions POPULATION PATTERNS AND PROCESSES Fundamentals of Population Geography Migration and Its Causes R...

Why Socio-metabolic Studies are Central to Ecological Economics

Global material extraction has tripled since the 1970s, with more than 100 billion tonnes of materials entering the world economy each year. Only 8.6% of this is recycled, while 61% ends up as waste and emissions that is the leading cause o...

Visible yet unseen: unpacking the (in)visibilities of food-delivery riders in public space

Food-delivery riders embody a constitutive paradox of platform-mediated labour. Although visible and physically exposed in public space, their labour is obscured, their subjectivities unacknowledged, and their presence marginalised. This ar...

Latvian Migrants’ Circular or Permanent Migration to Norway: 'Economic and Social Factors'

This article analyses migration decisions and labour market manoeuvring of Latvian migrants to Norway, as well as the economic and social conditions that influence their choices. How do they adapt to the labour market in Norway? Do they pra...

Rural areas in Poland from a demographic perspective

The article presents an analysis and a critical assessment of rural areas in Poland in the years 1999-2011 from a demographic perspective. The analysis is based on indicators characterising population density, population structure by gender...

Connecting young people with greenspaces: The case for participatory video

Abstract The values that people hold are thought to be key in bringing about the transformative change needed to halt biodiversity loss. Caring for nature has been conceptualised as a relational value and is thought to be largely shaped in ...

SERVICES AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The purpose of this contribution is to discuss what roles the different economic sectors, and in particular services activities (the tertiary sector) play in regional develop ment, understood as growth in production, incomes and employment ...

Global oil price and stock markets in oil exporting and European countries: Evidence during the Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war

The relationship between oil price movements and stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic and the geopolitical crisis like the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war is yet unexplored extensively. This study therefore examines the return-correlation...

Monitoring and tracking inequality in the services and facilities of urban space justice (Case study: Gorgan city)

Objective: One of the most important factors for sustainable development in the Declaration of Agenda is the twenty-one reduction in urban inequality. Therefore, the necessity of recognizing the current status of the indicators of spatial j...

Uncovering the spatiotemporal evolution of the service industry based on geo-big-data- a case study on the bath industry in China

Abstract The bath industry has multiple attributes, such as economic, health, and cultural communication. Therefore, exploring this industry's spatial pattern evolution is crucial to forming a healthy and balanced development model. Based o...

The Relationship between Near-Repeat Street Robbery and the Environment: Evidence from Malmö, Sweden

Near-repeat crime refers to a pattern whereby one crime event is soon followed by a similar crime event at a nearby location. Existing research on near-repeat crime patterns is inconclusive about where near-repeat patterns emerge and which ...

Cellulose industry and the progress of eucalyptus silviculture on the agricultural border of maranhense Amazonia

This paper has as the main goal present the recent evolution of the eucalyptus silviculture over the agriculture border of Legal Amazon in the State of Maranhão. It’s considered the propagation of historical appropriation and commodificatio...

Effect of information and communication technology on cashew nut export in Benin

The introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) has altered the way society operates things. ICT is used in various sectors, including agriculture. It can be used in the agricultural sector to distribute pricing and encou...

Principles of Human Geography

Methods and Techniques in Human Geography

Exploring geographical data testing hypotheses measuring associations multivariate analysis generalized linear models and categorical data analysis spatial allocation spatial interaction spatial datatistics, spatial models and spatial struc...

Remaking Human Geography

Introduction: Humanism and historical materialism in contemporary social geography, Suzanne Mackenzie and Audrey Kobayashi. Part 1 Issues: the social and economic imperatives of restructuring - a geographic perspective, John Bradbury restru...

Locational Analysis in Human Geography

(1967). Locational Analysis in Human Geography. Economic Geography: Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 276-277....