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Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 9, Page 2274-2294, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper draws on behavioural economic geography to identify the factors affecting uneven development. It uses the lens of economic competitiveness and addresses the association between differences in human behavioural traits and competitiveness in the context of localities across the United Kingdom. It focusses on the policy requirement for
Robert Huggins, Piers Thompson
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The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 1110-1140, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Whereas manufacturing seems to hold the key to modern economic growth, the role of manufacturing in economy‐wide convergence across countries is debatable. One strand of scholarship argues that productivity levels in manufacturing tend to remain stable across countries, and that economy‐wide convergence takes place through structural ...
Cecilia Lara, Svante Prado
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Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 7, Page 1596-1611, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Classical urban geography theories determine the distribution of population, production and economic activities on geospatial features. Under this assumption, peripheral regions are rarely prosperous. Depopulation, weak industrial and employment structure and inefficient and fragmented land use form a negative feedback loop. Within the context
Yu Zhang
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American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 2, Page 361-376, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Despite their unmistakable significance in regional histories and unique roles in cultural transmission and traditions, Indigenous trail systems are frequently ignored in non‐Indigenous heritage resource management regimes. These regulatory regimes often require that heritage have discrete spatial and temporal boundaries and predefined ...
Chelsey Geralda Armstrong +3 more
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Economic costs of protecting islands from invasive alien species
Conservation Biology, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Biological invasions represent a key threat to insular systems and have pronounced impacts across environments and economies. The ecological impacts have received substantial focus, but the socioeconomic impacts are poorly synthesized across spatial and temporal scales.
Thomas W. Bodey +8 more
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Islands, remoteness and effective policy making: Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 682-704, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Aotearoa New Zealand has been identified, by several measures, as being one of a few developed countries that have weathered the COVID‐19 pandemic in the best possible way. This outcome is generally attributed to strict but effective public health measures that included – besides very high vaccination rates – national and regional lockdowns ...
Patrick Barrett, Jacques Poot
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Territory and cooperativism: A spatial analysis of the Spanish region of Andalusia [PDF]
, 2019 This study seeks to identify the behavior of cooperative societies in Andalusia, as well as the environments in which their greater relative importance is evident.
Pérez González, María del Carmen +1 more
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TRANSFORMACIONES ESPACIALES DE LA CIUDAD PUERTO DE MAZATLÁN, MEXICO: 1980 - 2010
Boletín Geográfico, 2021 La ciudad puerto de Mazatlán ha sido objeto de intervenciones que han generado variaciones en su espacio, en el que se observa consolidación y fragmentación entre las décadas de 1980 a 2010; procesos que han impactado de manera significativa en su ...
Lilia Susana Padilla +1 more
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Municipal Risk Atlases in Mexico as policy instruments for territorial regulation
Investigaciones Geográficas, 2015 Municipal Risk Atlases are one of the policy instruments that Mexican government has prioritized in the last few years in order to consolidate the territorial regulation of human settlements in the country.
Naxhelli Ruiz Rivera +2 more
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