The global food consumption today is environmentally and socially not sustainable. While greenhousegas emissions increase due to changing diets, the dubble burden of malnutrition persists especially in emerging economies of the Global South such as India. This thesis explores the triangle of...

Purpose: The economic crisis in Greece has caused widespread suffering both in society and the economy. Among other things, new forms of geographical mobilities emerged highlighting the country’s inability to retain a scientifically skilled workforce. One of the most important scientific...

How do geographic and historical-cultural factors shape new business formation? Using novel data on new business registrations, we document that 75% of the variation in new business formation is explained by time-invariant county-level factors and examine the extent to which such variation is...

The term "market" originally portrayed a public space for economic transactions but the term has since evolved into an abstract and disputed idea. Despite modern markets seemingly omnipresent nature, their specific geographies have undergone relatively little analysis.0This collection of new...

Introduction: Economic growth and community construction at the Greater Mekong Subregion / Xin Chen and Charles Samuel Johnston -- Constructing a region (the GMS) out of a river / Nicholas Tarling -- 100% Pure Mekong : the key to identity, development and tourism in the GMS? / Charles Samuel...

Mobility in/for Europe -- The optimistic 90s -- The turn of the century -- Doing mobile ethnography -- On the road in Europe -- A country on wheels -- Belonging to the road -- Speed and smoothness -- Questioning Euro-mobility -- When did mobility turn into europeanness? -- Requiem for a mobile...

Unsere Welt ändert sich rasant. Während die Globalisierung der Weltwirtschaft immer schneller voranschreitet, sich Technik, Wissenschaft und Massenkultur nach globalen Standards über den Erdball verbreiten, verharrt die politische Welt in nationalstaatlichem Denken. Die bestehenden...

In this paper, we study the cultural geography of the Veneto Region on the basis of a pseudo-diffusion approach to the analysis of the inherent semantic spatial data. We find somewhat surprising results, and, in particular, that Venice, indisputably the Region's cultural hub in terms of...

This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive...

The stories we tell about "the economy" in discourses of regional economic development play an active role in shaping our economic realities. The construction of more equitable, democratic and ecologically-sound economies must involve an interrogation of our assumptions about what “the...

We build a model of secession crises where voters may wish to accommodate the minority to prevent secession. We show the existence of a majority voting equilibrium with a government's type biased in favor of the minority. We propose a measure of secession risk and perform the comparative static...

The political geography of campaign contributions -- The timing of presidential campaign contributions -- Participation in the early financing of presidential candidates -- A tale of two parties? : do republicans and democratic contenders have different geographical fundraising bases? -- Median...

Neue Ausgabe des 'Atlas der Globalisierung' zum Thema Postwachstumsgesellschaft mit über 300 Karten und Grafiken. Wirtschaftswachstum gilt als Allheilmittel im modernen Kapitalismus. Doch auf einem begrenzten Planeten kann es kein unbegrenztes Wachstum geben. So kann es nicht weitergehen. Aber...

This honors thesis examines how individuals displaced by gentrification fare after relocation, with changes in wage and income as the primary measures of well-being. Geo-coded Panel Study of Income Dynamics data is used in conjunction with decennial census tract-level neighborhood data to...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...

This paper explores how different modalities, spatialities and scales of power operate in a geopolitical context. By tracing the dynamic and shifting economic geographies of state and firm power in the events leading up to the collapse of a major Australian firm, Ansett Airlines, it reveals the...

In this paper, we examine the role that hotels play in the urban economies of central business districts (CBDs). To illustrate this, we explore the biography of the Sydney Hilton, an iconic modernist building which opened in 1975 and was recently totally refurbished and rebranded. We argue that...