Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This ethnographic study explores vehicle residents' information practices in the United States (US). Vehicle residents are people whose primary means of housing is a vehicle. This work builds on previous research encompassing transitions and fractured (information) landscapes. Using fractured information landscapes as the theoretical framework,
Kaitlin E. Montague
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Urban growth management in Africa with geographical information technologies: Maputo City case study [PDF]
, 2009 Cristina Henriques
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The role of biofuels in advancing sustainability: the future Mexican energy system
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract In response to climate change, many countries, including Mexico, have committed to reducing their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through agreements such as that reached at the Conference of the Parties in Paris in 2015. As a result, Mexico enacted its General Law on Climate Change, which aims to achieve a 50% reduction in emissions by 2050 in ...
J. Carlos Castro +5 more
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Working Paper 16-02 - The New Economic Geography : a survey of the literature [PDF]
This overview of the literature dedicated to the new economic geography intends to highlight the main mechanisms, which contribute to explain the spatial concentration of economic activity, in particular the formation of cities and industrial districts ...
Dominique Simonis
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Electronic medicine management systems in developing countries: A landscape review
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Medicines are a major global health expense. However, suboptimal use increases costs and causes patient harm. One way to reduce costs and increase safe, efficient medicines use is with electronic medicines management systems (EMMS). They allow easy capture of routine health data which can facilitate research, service planning and reimbursement ...
Andrew Lambarth +8 more
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City of sounds: An heuristic of sensible aspects of public life in contemporary urban landscape
Cuadernos de Antropología Social, 2009 The analysis of the sensible aspects of public life, or, in other words, Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis, has an enormous heuristic potential for the study of cities and their images.
Carlos Fortuna
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A theoretical framework for Evolutionary Economic Geography: Industrial dynamics and urban growth as a branching process [PDF]
We propose a framework that specifies the process of economic development as an evolutionary branching process of product innovations. Each product innovation provides a growth opportunity for an existing firm or a new firm, and for an existing city or a
Koen Frenken, Ron A. Boschma
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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An evolution model for the mobility of urban societal classes based on complex networks
Journal of Physics: ComplexityCities serve as the main platform for human socio-economic activities, where large crowds, products and information converge, forming complex societal interactions and the space for human to interact with each other.
Yi-Hua Zhou +4 more
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What makes cities bigger and richer? New Evidence from 1990–2000 in the US [PDF]
This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 ...
Rafael González-Val
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