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For Geography and Sport, Sport Geography or Geography of Sport [PDF]
GeoSport for Society, 2014 Sport through its forms of expression and organization, through quantitative and qualitative features of the participants and spectators, through the fact that it is an inseparable part of daily life on Earth, by on-going local, regional, national or ...
Alexandru ILIEȘ +3 more
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Geography speaks: performative aspects of geography [PDF]
Geographica Helvetica, 2014 C. Schurr
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Geography and Development [PDF]
Journal of Economic Geography, 2000 The most striking fact about the economic geography of the world is the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, including the coexistence of economic development and underdevelopment. High-income regions are almost entirely concentrated in a few temperate zones, half of the world's GDP is produced by 15 percent of the world's population, and ...
Henderson, J. Vernon +2 more
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Biodiversity and Geography [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 Abstract We combine a new economic geography model of agglomeration and dispersion of economic activity with an ecological–economic model of species diversity to examine optimal policies of biodiversity conservation in a two-region world. Species diversity is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact.
Edward B. Barbier, Michael Rauscher
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2001 We study the residential choice of siblings who are altruistic towards their parents. The firstborn child's location choice influences the behavior of the second-born child and can shift some of the burden of providing care for the parents from one child to the other.
Julio R. Robledo +5 more
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The Geography of Medicare [PDF]
Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 1999 There is a great deal of geographic variation in Medicare spending. For example, while the average Medicare cost per beneficiary was around $5200 in 1996, Medicare spending, adjusted for differences in regional prices and demographic composition, was about $8000 per person in Miami, but only $3500 in Minneapolis. In this paper, we explore the source of
David M. Cutler, Louise Sheiner
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Future geographies and geography education [PDF]
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015 Futute geography education is discussed from different perspectives: the discipline, the student and the ...
Tine Béneker, J.A. van der Schee
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Changing times in England: the influence on geography teachers’ professional practice [PDF]
, 2012 School geography in England has been characterised as a pendulum swinging between policies that emphasise curriculum and pedagogy alternately. In this paper, I illustrate the influence of these shifts on geography teacher's professional practice, by ...
Alexander R. +47 more
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Theoretical Computer Science, 1993 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Fraenkel, A.S., Simonson, S.
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Divergence - Is It Geography? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 This paper tests a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log-linearized growth equation that corresponds directly to a threshold regression technique in econometrics.
Straubhaar, Thomas +2 more
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