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Income, work and education: insights for closing the gap in urban Australia [PDF]

, 2014
Existing analysis of the Closing the Gap outcomes is limited by the lack of adequate wage data for Indigenous Australians. This paper attempts to redress this situation by using a geography recently developed by the ABS - Significant Urban Areas - to ...
Boyd Hunter, Mandy Yap
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Understanding the Behavior of High‐Tech and Non‐High‐Tech Firms on Environmental Sustainability: New Evidence From the United States

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving environmental goals requires transformative change that supports the development of high‐tech industries for the deployment and diffusion of existing technologies. As technology evolves continuously, businesses in the high‐tech industry play a crucial role in this transition by introducing new technologies and practices that impact ...
Ismail Demirdag, Mehmet Ulug, Salih Bortecine Avci, Abdullah Emre Caglar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cartographies of infrastructural imaginations: mapping ecological utopias and dystopias in the Global South

Global Social Challenges Journal
This article provides the reader with a theoretical framework and a method of representing cities called cartographies of infrastructural imaginations. The study employs mapping methods from the fields of architecture, urban geography and visual cultures.
Ernesto Valero Thomas
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Application of geographically weighted regression for modelling the spatial structure of urban heat island in the city of Wroclaw (SW Poland)

, 2011
Mariusz Szymanowski, Maciej Kryza
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Statistical prediction of the nocturnal urban heat island intensity based on urban morphology and geographical factors - An investigation based on numerical model results for a large ensemble of French cities

, 2020
Thomas Gardes, Robert Schoetter, Julia Hidalgo, Nathalie Long, Eva Marquès, Valéry Masson   +5 more
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Terrorism and the resilience of cities [PDF]

The September 11 attacks in New York and Washington have forced Americans to confront the fact that to live or work in a large city is to be at greater risk of large-scale terrorism.
James Harrigan, Philippe Martin
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A Place to Remember? Exploring Perceived Destination Sustainability Effects on Memory and Place Attachment: The Role of Tourism Experience and Value Co‐Creation

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of perceived destination sustainability on memory and place attachment, mediated by tourism experience and value co‐creation, within the framework of Signaling Theory and the resource‐based view. Data from 390 Americans who visited Brazil in the last 12 months were collected through an online survey.
William Quezado F. Cavalcante, Arnaldo Coelho, Cristela Maia Bairrada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gentrification of La Candelaria: Reconfigurations of Place of Residence and Consumption of High-income Groups

Cuadernos de Geografía: Revista Colombiana de Geografía, 2013
The sector of La Candelaria (Bogotá D. C., Colombia) has once again become a place of residence and consumption for high-income groups that had abandoned the area in the mid-20th century due to multiple urban problems.
Adrian Smith Manrique Gómez
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Systemic curricular injustice in initial teacher education through curriculum control and marketization

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that recent initial teacher education policy in England, combining curricular control and marketisation, presents a case of systemic curricular injustice. The initial teacher education core content framework, the government mandated content for all initial teacher education in England, represents a centralised curriculum that
Clare Brooks
wiley   +1 more source

Recontextualising urban geography in Chinese upper secondary schools: The role of teachers' disciplinary knowledge

The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how teachers' disciplinary knowledge shapes their recontextualisation practices for promoting powerful knowledge in classrooms. Situated within the context of geography education in China, this study employs a qualitative case study methodology to examine the recontextualisation of urban geography by four upper ...
Yujing He
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