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This paper discusses the ways in which first generation Canadian women of Vancouver's Chinese and South Asian communities manage their chronic illness. The study reported was concerned with the women's experiences of health care encounters in hospitals and clinics, and their subsequent incorporation or modification of biomedical knowledge as they managed the day-to-day consequences of their illness...
The location of medical services critically affects access to health care. We examine the extent to which the spatial distribution of health care resources allows expectant mothers to give birth in the county where they live or forces them to travel elsewhere for obstetrical care. We focus on native American-white differentials in access and travel because little is known about inter-racial differences...
Economic reforms since the late 1970s have brought about significant changes in rural China. A large number of surplus rural labourers have been released from the agricultural sector and there has been a massive transition of rural residents from agricultural to non-agricultural employment. These changes will be analyzed by examining the changes in the employment structure of rural residents. Rural...
The breakup of Czechoslovakia on 31 December 1992 resulted in the emergence of a newly independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. The split is often interpreted as the result of ethnic nationalism. In contrast, this paper attempts to assess the influence of regional inequalities and uneven economic development on the split. Pre-World War Two Czechoslovakia was unable to address large regional differences...
Since 1984 the New Zealand economy has experienced a significant phase of economic restructuring which has had a differential impact on various sectors, regions and social groups within the economy. This paper examines the extent to which economic change has affected the marginalized status of Maori households in the predominantly rural region of Northland. The social implications of economic restructuring...
Since the early 1970s the Australian economy has undergone major transformations common to other western industrialised countries. Jobs in manufacturing declined precipitately whilst the service economy grew, most significantly in producer services but also in lower skilled jobs. Tourism and services exports began to rival traditional agricultural and mining staples. Social outcomes, also typical...
When viewed in an international context some democratic political systems bestow more individual freedom on elected representatives than others over how they vote, for instance that of the United States compared to the United Kingdom. However, occasional opportunities arise for free votes even in the British House of Commons and the paper considers the case study of that on the banning of hunting...
For most people, both in the West and the former Soviet empire, the mass media is an important source of information about the environment, but little has been known about the ways in which environmental issues are treated in the mass media in the former communist states of East Europe. In this paper, articles dealing with environmental issues in the Estonian and Latvian press during 1992 and 1993...
Key trends in labour demand and supply in the 1980s, and their interactions, had uneven impacts on different population sub-groups and areas in Britain. As the structure of employment shifted from manufacturing to services, and there was a growth in high level non-manual occupations at the expense of less skilled manual jobs, there was increasing concern that the losers from these processes of...
Many in Western Europe regard it as being in the grip of a refugee crisis. This paper considers this contention. It describes the main stages in the development of the current refugee crisis and argues that having established the agenda in the 1940s, Western Europe has been able to progressively distance itself from refugee episodes and define them as essentially problems of the Third World. The...
Despite its lack of success in countries across the globe, scientific or sustained yield forestry remains the dominant discourse in tropical forestry. The main concern of this paper is to provide a conceptualisation of the inherent technological difficulties in sustained yield technology. In doing so, the paper goes to the heart of the debate surrounding the construction of scientific knowledge and...
The benefits of Botswana's post-independence rapid economic growth have not quite trickled down to the masses, particularly in the rural areas, and this has led to a situation that can be classified as growth with uneven development. This paper examines and analyses this phenomenon in Botswana from the perspective of the urban-rural divide. The paper concludes with a discussion on policy imperatives...
The British Conservative government decided on a major restructuring of local government in the early 1990s. In Scotland and Wales it determined to achieve this by legislative fiat, but in England it sought to remove the two-tier structure (counties, within which were nested boroughs and districts) and replace it by a system of unitary authorities through the work of a Local Government Commission,...
Energy availability both by quantity and quality is a key determinant of the economic productivity of most human systems. The real contributions of energy resources in a sustainable development framework, to a greater extent, involve more complex issues, particularly with regard to the nature and degree of technological involvement. In such regions as sub-Saharan Africa where wood provides the bulk...
Economic theory indicates that the firm avoids an intensification of competition by moves into new geographical areas. Competition, however, has intensified in the markets for food and drinks in developed countries due to stagnation of per capita consumption, in volume, over the last years. Entry of new second-tier firms and new source-countries, as well as rivalry between retailers and processors,...
Concentration and deconcentration of population and economic activity can be broken down into several stages: concentration, deconcentration and renewed concentration. Most Western countries, and some developing countries, are at some point in the stages of concentration or deconcentration. In some countries, the concentration and deconcentration stages have been completed, and renewed concentration...
This paper begins with an examination of the role of state failure in constructing and preserving inefficient and ineffective systems of pollution control. It then assesses the characteristics, goals and mechanisms associated with integrated economic development and environmental protection as proposed by the conceptual framework of ecological modernization. In seeking to assess the applicability...
Despite the growing importance of environmental issues within international and national economic policies, little attention has been paid to these issues in work on economic restructuring. However, the increasing adoption of the concept of sustainable development as a means to resolve conflict between the economy and the environment has major implications for the form and direction of economic restructuring...
This paper compares the awareness, take-up and use of information and communication technologies in an accessible rural region with that in a remote rural region and assesses the implications for policy. Data are drawn from a survey of small businesses in south Warwickshire and north Lancashire. The findings reveal the overall adoption of information and communication technologies, both...
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