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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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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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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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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
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
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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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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O presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal discutir a literatura teórica e empírica acerca das decisões econômicas de agentes econômicos partindo do arcabouço teórico-analítico da Nova Sociologia Econômica (NSE).
Lucas Lemos Walmrath
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En esta entrevista al profesor José Osejo, geógrafo físico, se aborda su formación profesional, su elección de la carrera de Geografía y su experiencia como estudiante en la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.
Jerson Sebastián Diaz Marquina +2 more
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VIDEIRA, Sandra Lúcia; COSTA, Pierre Alves; FAJARDO, Sérgio. (org). Geografia Econômica: (re) leituras contemporâneas. Rio de Janeiro: Letra Capital, 2011. 193 p. [PDF]
O livro aqui apresentado “Geografia Econômica: (re) leituras contemporâneas” é uma coletânea com 9 capítulos, reunindo pesquisadores das regiões Sul, Sudeste e Centro-Oeste do Brasil, que se debruçam sobre a temática da Geografia Econômica.
Maria Terezinha Serafim Gomes
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