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History versus Expectations: an Empirical Investigation [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper provides the first empirical test of the role of history versus expectations in U.S. urban development. Starting from Paul Krugman's theoretical work in new economic geography, we test whether or not a modern city develops because of either ...
Timothy F. Harris, Yannis M. Ioannides
core  

Temperature and Farm Labor in Nigeria

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We estimate the impact of temperature shocks on the composition of farm labor in rural Nigeria using a nationally representative household panel survey. Leveraging plausibly exogenous year‐to‐year variation in growing season temperatures, we find that warmer temperatures significantly alter farm labor composition, prompting a substantial shift
Andu Berha
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial implications of international trade under the new economic geography approach [PDF]

open access: yes
In 2008, Paul Krugman from Princeton University was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences by the Central Bank of Sweden, for his “analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity”.
de León Arias, Adrián   +1 more
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Convening Publics: The parasitical spaces of public action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
About the book: Political Geography is a core subdiscipline of Human Geography, the Handbook of Political Geography will provide a highly contextualised and systematic overview of the latest thinking and research.
Barnett, Clive
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The Network Analysis of Urban Streets: A Primal Approach

open access: yes, 2005
The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition especially in transportation/land-use planning and economic geography.
Alexander C   +31 more
core   +2 more sources

European post-socialist cities and their near hinterland in intra-urban geography literature

open access: yes, 2013
Over 180 articles concerning urban geography aspects of European post-socialist cities and their near hinterland, published between 1990-2012 in international journals, were selected for the analysis in this paper.
Jan KubešCDFMR
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of Government Programs on Urban Sprawl of Tehran [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2015
The urban sustainable development is economic efficiency, social justice and environmental preservation so one of the its important conditions is utilization from urban land, otherwise cities suffer from urban sprawl. So far, several models are presented
Mohammad Soleymani   +3 more
doaj  

Geography, Ethnicity or Subsistence-Specific Variations in Human Microbiome Composition and Diversity

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2017
One of the fundamental issues in the microbiome research is characterization of the healthy human microbiota. Recent studies have elucidated substantial divergences in the microbiome structure between healthy individuals from different race and ethnicity.
V. Gupta, Sandip Paul, C. Dutta
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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