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Many of the proposals presented to reverse the decline of old mining and industrial areas in the developed countries affected by processes of socioeconomic restructuring emphasize cultural and environmental dimensions as a key component of future development strategies of these areas. This trend may be placed in the context of transitions towards a post-industrial society in which some components...
The Kumil timber project in Papua New Guinea represents one of the earliest attempts by the State to directly involve customary landowners in large-scale timber harvesting. A unique aspect of this project was that a local landowners' company was established to manage the logging and initiate development activities, so that customary landowners would retain a greater share of the benefits. This paper...
Protein is necessary for human growth, and the essential amino acids can only be obtained from foods eaten. The consumption of protein is determined by the protein content of foods, which is generally higher in animal foods than in plant foods, and the quantities consumed. A majority of the world's protein is derived from plant foods, of which cereals are by far the most important. There are marked...
The main goal of this paper is the analysis of interregional migration pattern of Slovakia between 1970 and 1990 and the expected consequences for the population. The redistributing effects of migration are best captured by the use of migration efficiency measures both for administrative districts and for the flows between them. A permanent decline both of interregional migration and its share in...
The Cambridge Phenomenon --the growth of R&D based high technology industry in Cambridge during the 1980s--is an economic success story of the new times. As a study of the work organisation of the scientist/engineers of Cambridge, this paper reveals the extreme time-space flexibility experienced by these workers. It reveals also how this flexible use of time and space is essential in the...
This paper examines how large scale spatial information surfaces are constructed, and how this construction varies according to an individual's location. Data consisting of U.S. city names recalled in a given timeframe are obtained from subjects in three U.S. cities: Buffalo NY, East Lansing MI, and Seattle WA. These data are used to calibrate a multivariate model, specific to each of the three...
The paper examines the recent emergence of a water pollution problem in Britain associated with agricultural pesticides, and addresses the following questions: (i) how have pesticides become such an important part of arable farming practice in Britain; and (ii) how has the problem of pesticide pollution been defined and contested by different groups. Farm survey evidence from the River Ouse...
There is widespread agreement that employers are seeking more flexibility in their relations with labour and that the economic climate of the past 20 years or so has proved particularly favourable to employers as high unemployment and changes in labour market regulations have weakened the bargaining power of trade unions. In this paper, however, I examine the contradictions embedded in labour...
By providing a simple overview of the character of the South African economy as a minerals-energy complex , the relevance of flexible production to policy making is contested, alongside the presentation of a broader critique of the flec-spec debate. In addition, the intellectual origins of the flexibility approach are identified in terms of dual labour market theory and the simple reversal of...
This paper identifies and delineates gentrification in a fourth order city: Regina, Canada. As a consequence of the relationship between house prices and socio-ecomonic status, housing market variables are used as main indicators of gentrification. The analysis is achieved at the local level using the ARC/INFO GIS and clustering the information by enumeration areas. One enumeration area (EA 7313)...
This paper takes an approach to the study of counterurbanisation which differs from established perspectives in two ways: through a focus upon the redistribution of both population and dwellings among all settlements in a locality; and by considering both the spatial and hierarchical components of change. A case study demonstrates that during the last three inter-censal periods additional people...
The failure of existing systems to achieve a sustainable equilibrium between resources and fishing effort has led to a search for alternative approaches to the management of common property resources. Individual transferable quotas (ITQs), including the allocation of fixed shares of the potential harvest among licensed vessels which may be exchanged, leased or sold on an open market, have been introduced...
This paper examines the job creation impacts of incoming branch factory establishment in Devon and Cornwall. It is based on an examination of the scale of direct employment created by the population of in-moving branch units, together with a more detailed analysis of their motives for investment, the quality of employment generated and the extent to which additional dependent employment has been...
Co-management is a recurrent theme of growing importance in the management of renewable resources in Canada, particularly where aboriginal and non-aboriginal people are interested in utilizing these resources. Co-management broadly refers to the sharing of power and responsibility between government and local resource users. This is achieved by various levels of integration of local and state...
This article examines the implications and significance of land ownership trends, on shaping the spatial residential landscape in Arab localities in Israel. Residential areas in Arab localities were characterised by ethnic-group or clan separation. Each clan or group resided in an homogeneous neighborhood, which, when compared to contiguous spatial residential areas, became heterogeneous. This...
An individual personal history, treated as a case study, can be used as the framework for researching the larger contextual description of immigration. This approach is particularly useful when considering the role of women within larger immigration flows. Women are poorly documented in many studies which have focussed on political and economic factors in the decision to migrate. Based on fragmentary...
Women's health is influenced not only by behavior and culture, but also by the social, economic and political contexts in which women live. We examine the changing context of women's reproductive health in New York City through an analysis of spatial and temporal trends in low birthweight during the late 1970s and 1980s. Using cartographic and statistical methods, the impacts of political and economic...
The Dickenson County Women's Health Project was developed to research the information needs and wants of women in Virginia's Appalachian region. Using a community-university partnership, local women, female academics and community researchers drew from each others strengths in a process of communication grounded in philosophies of community empowerment, competency-building and reciprocity in research...
In public health care, needs assessments are a common practice, often done once a year or every couple of years, to determine arenas on which providers should focus their prime attention. The structure of needs assessments varies between political boundaries, but within political boundaries (e.g. state, county, etc.) they are generally standardized so that organizations offering similar types of...
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