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Geographers have recently sought to understand countryside change by examining economic restructuring and its impact on local social coherences. However, despite renewed interest in the locale, many investigations of the rural economy have been at a macro-scale. It is argued that this broad brush approach has neglected many important aspects of rural restructuring and, in particular, the importance...
This paper examines transitions in the rental shelter market of a medium-sized city in Zimbabwe. Based upon an extensive study conducted in 1990, and more recent research (1993-1995), it analyses the rental housing market as it was a decade after Independence and consequent transitions since the introduction of structural adjustment in 1991. It maintains that increased privatization of the rental...
This study analyses the importance of farmers' environmental attitudes for (non)-participation in the Cambrian Mountains ESA scheme. It highlights that age, education, length of residency, farming philosophy and the existence of remnant semi-natural habitats on farms are important variables explaining farmers' dispositions toward conservation and participation behaviour in the ESA scheme. An expansion...
This article summarises the results of a modelling study that examines how the geographical pattern of agricultural land use and production in England and Wales might be affected by climate change. Various scenarios of regional climate change are considered by the model within a price and demand framework of a world food market also affected by global warming. The study concludes that over 3M ha...
District councils have emerged as dynamic and innovative tourism agencies since the early 1980s. The aim of this paper is to examine district council intervention in tourism in England and Wales, based on an extensive survey of local authorities at this level. The results indicate the authorities' perceptions of resources and markets, organization and involvement in tourism marketing, planning,...
A 300 km network of khettara (qanat) subsurface irrigation channels was excavated in the Tafilalt basin beginning in the late 14th century. More than 75 of these chains provided perennial water following the breakup of the ancient city of Sijilmassa. Khettara continued to function for much of the northern oasis until the early 1970s, when new technologies and government policies forced changes....
As part of a larger project involving both quantitative and qualitative research, this paper discusses the findings of a questionnaire survey at Brent Cross and Wood Green concerning the social use of two north London shopping centres. Combined with focus group and ethnographic research (reported elsewhere), the survey results provide fresh empirical evidence about the nature of consumption as a...
Since the beginning of the eighties, regional technology and development policies in industrialized countries have pursued, among other things, the goal of attracting and supporting high-tech industries. Very often high-tech regions, such as legendary Silicon Valley, Calif., or Route 128, Mass., served as models. But there are high-tech regions in other industrialized countries, too. This paper...
In this paper we examine the outcomes of restructuring within the British coal mining industry in the English countryside and an attempt by the Countryside Commission to regenerate an area of the rural East Midlands through a forest project of sustainable development. In this particular area, deep-mine coal production has collapsed resulting in high levels of unemployment and large parcels of derelict...
This paper examines the findings of research undertaken in the Southwest of England during 1992-1993, the aim of which was to explore the socio-economic and geographical circumstances of farms participating in agro-environment schemes. The research found that traditional farming was crucial to the schemes, in terms of scheme objectives and the profile of participants. As such, traditional...
As the activities of Canada-based multinational enterprises (MNEs) have fostered an impressive outflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) abroad, many empirical studies have been put forth to describe the characteristics and account for the reasons behind Canadian FDI. Yet, most of these Canada-based studies have relied on questionnaires (and surveyed only large MNEs) to fulfil data requirements...
This paper reinterrogates key aspects of social theory--realist and regulationist approaches--in order to develop a conceptual framework within which thinking on sustainable development can be progressed. A modified realist approach and insights from regulation theory are used to consider how the development of the Australian sugar industry has been conditioned in ways which make unsustainable outcomes...
This empirical paper examines the under-researched topic of the spatial and temporal distribution of shoplifting using police crime records for Cardiff city centre in 1993. As recorded shoplifting incidents are a small sample of the whole, the patterns identified and the explanations suggested are necessarily tentative. The opportunities offered by particular store types are seen to influence...
Much of Western European and North American industry has been restructuring its supplier relations, introducing innovations such as JIT delivery, increased outsourcing and collaborative buyer-supplier relations. There is now a growing literature on the extent and general spatial implications of changing buyer-supplier relations in the U.K. There is less evidence of the extent and form of collaborative...
This paper develops a conceptualisation of safari tourism as an arena of nature negotiation. The circuit of culture model of cultural communication is modified for the institutional specificities of tourism and is used as a framework within which the encoding and decoding strategies respectively employed by tourism marketing texts and tourists are elaborated. From an analysis of tourist brochures,...
With reference to case study material from Mexico and the Philippines, this article examines the assertion that recession and adjustment in developing countries have impacted more heavily upon women than men in low-income urban households. Although the analysis finds that women do bear a greater share of the costs of economic restructuring, the consequences in respect of changes in their lives are...
This paper examines recent debate concerning the concepts of sustainable knowledge and hybridity in environmental research. Hybrid studies employ local, indigenous knowledge alongside global, scientific techniques to achieve guidelines for sustainable development. The paper discusses the value of indigenous knowledge in testing theories of environmental degradation, and the problems of overcoming...
This paper is concerned with the articulation of popular alternatives to the dominant Neoliberal ideological consensus which has established itself in Latin America over recent years. It focuses in particular upon the legacy of the Nicaraguan Revolution, situating the FSLN's (Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional) current attempts to articulate a coherent economic strategy for the 1996 electoral...
This paper investigates China's changing fiscal system and its impact on uneven regional development. It reveals that Mao's fiscal system was featured by centralized revenue collection and inter-regional budget transfers, giving few incentives to the provinces. Post-Mao China has partially changed Mao's fiscal system, mainly through the introduction of the contracting system and fiscal decentralization...
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