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Based on a case study from the Philippines, this paper argues that globalization forms a material set of processes, but also a political discourse employed to legitimize certain power relations. I argue, firstly, that scales, and particularly the global scale, can be viewed as social constructions reflecting political interests rather than neutral categories of geographical space. I suggest that...
The purpose of this paper is to present main findings of flood research conducted so far in Bangladesh. The paper emphasizes unconventional findings and points out how some of these findings differ from the popular perceptions regarding some important aspects of flooding. The available studies clearly suggests that research into the impact of flooding on human settlement and other relevant aspects...
Agri-environmental policies have become increasingly prominent measures in the farm sector of England and Wales. This major development has not escaped the attention of agricultural geographers, but little work has emerged which overtly explores the geographical consequences of agri-environmental policy on land use patterns and countryside conservation. Understanding this geography is important...
This paper draws from the regulation approach and from discourse analysis to contextualize and evaluate current trends in the industrial development policies of small Third World countries. The investment promotion guidebooks of eight economically-weak states of the Caribbean Basin and littoral Africa provide evidence for the construction of Third World mediascapes. Through promises of a pro-investor...
The growth of highway-oriented ribbons and planned shopping centres in low density suburban areas of North American cities transformed their commercial structure in the 1950s and 1960s. In the last decade, the addition of new forms of retailing and the trend to commercial intensification in some of the old highway ribbons have completely changed their character, paralleling the densification that...
The globalization of agro-food systems has often negatively impacted farming households. However, globalization is an uneven process with actors in specific localities able to mediate and shape broad structural forces. The persistence of agro-food systems that are not highly commodified in an increasingly commodified, global economy is of particular interest to those seeking alternatives to a global...
Aerial photographs, agricultural census data and information from questionnaire surveys are used to investigate changes in the agricultural landscape of East Lothian, Scotland, during the 1970s and 1980s. Photographs for 1972 and 1988 provide a guide to changes associated both with farmers' responses to the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy, operating in the United Kingdom from 1973,...
This paper uses the evidence of research conducted in North-West England to explore the extent to which parents consider that there are adequate public facilities and play opportunities in their neighbourhoods for their children; and it considers whether children's experiences of outdoor play is changing, by comparing contemporary children's play with both previous academic studies of children's independent...
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