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Decomposing geographical and universal aspects of human mobility [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
Driven by access to large volumes of detailed movement data, the study of human mobility has grown rapidly over the past decade. This body of work has argued that human mobility is scale-free, has proposed models to generate scale-free moving distance distribution, and explained how the scale-free distribution arises from aggregating displacements ...
arxiv  

Impacts of road development in sub-Saharan Africa: A call for holistic perspectives in research and policy

open access: yesiScience
Summary: This perspective explores the multifaceted development challenges related to road network expansion in sub-Saharan Africa, where recent infrastructure investments reflect transformative ambitions but also imply socio-ecological tradeoffs.
Lisa Biber-Freudenberger   +17 more
doaj  

Participatory GIS in Mapping Ecosystem Services: Two Case Studies from High-Biodiversity Regions in Italy and Peru [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Assessing ecosystem services (ES) and mapping their values are of paramount importance. Here we present two case studies where the participatory mapping of social values of landscape ecosystem services is used in territories with high levels of cultural ...
Codato, Daniele   +2 more
core  

Analysis of effective factors on integrated local management in peripheral rural settlements of Tehran metropolitan [PDF]

open access: yesمسکن و محیط روستا
In recent decades, the growth and development process of cities, especially megacities, has gained a very high speed. This issue has been accompanied by a significant increase in population and activity in these cities.
Masoumeh Ghorbani   +3 more
doaj  

Geography is not Destiny. Geography, Institutions and Literacy in England, 1837-1863 [PDF]

open access: yes
Geography made rural society in the south-east of England unequal. Economies of scale in grain growing created a farmer elite and many landless labourers.
Gregory Clark, Rowena Gray
core  

Symplectic geography in dimension 8 [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2004
We show that in dimension 8 the geography of symplectic manifolds does not differ from that of almost complex ones.
arxiv  

GEOGRAPHY IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS – SELECTED ISSUES

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Geography, 2013
The goal of this article is to indicate the position that geography occupies within the organization structure of universities in given countries and to provide an overview of the research of research that predominated in the institutions and ...
Jerzy BANSKI
doaj  

Analýza siete ŽP Group podľa vybraných oblastí skúmania Novej ekonomickej geografie a teórie učiacich sa regiónov. [PDF]

open access: yes
Paper is based on theoretical knowledge of current trends in regional development – New Economic Geography and the theory of Learning regions. Paper is primary focused on a large company – located in the Banská Bystrica region – and on a network created ...
Filip, Flaška   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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