Academic Articles & Research Papers

Efectos de los cambios en el programa Procampo en la economía rural del sureste mexicano

Esta investigación examina los efectos derivados de cambios en la implementación del Programa de Apoyos Directos al Campo (Procampo) en la economía rural del sureste mexicano. El análisis se basa en la aplicación del modelo de multiplicador...

Monitoring and tracking inequality in the services and facilities of urban space justice (Case study: Gorgan city)

Objective: One of the most important factors for sustainable development in the Declaration of Agenda is the twenty-one reduction in urban inequality. Therefore, the necessity of recognizing the current status of the indicators of spatial j...

The Relationship between Near-Repeat Street Robbery and the Environment: Evidence from Malmö, Sweden

Near-repeat crime refers to a pattern whereby one crime event is soon followed by a similar crime event at a nearby location. Existing research on near-repeat crime patterns is inconclusive about where near-repeat patterns emerge and which ...

POTENCIAL SOCIAL DO MUNICÍPIO DE SILVEIRA MARTINS, RS: CONTRIBUIÇÃO AO ZEE

Esta pesquisa consistiu em identificar e diagnosticar as potencialidades sociais do município de Silveira Martins/RS, segundo a metodologia proposta por Becker e Egler (1996) para o Zoneamento Ecológico-Econômico (ZEE). Deste modo, utilizou...

Poder Legislativo e Desenvolvimento: uma análise das proposições de parlamentares do Estado de Tocantins

A criação do Estado do Tocantins foi pautada por um forte argumento de que a emancipação política e administrativa levaria o norte do então Estado de Goiás a alcançar o seu desenvolvimento. Com base nesse pressuposto, os deputados federais ...

Cellulose industry and the progress of eucalyptus silviculture on the agricultural border of maranhense Amazonia

This paper has as the main goal present the recent evolution of the eucalyptus silviculture over the agriculture border of Legal Amazon in the State of Maranhão. It’s considered the propagation of historical appropriation and commodificatio...

HISTOLOGY OF DERMAL OSSIFICATIONS IN AN ANKYLOSAURIAN DINOSAUR FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF ANTARCTICA

Ankylosaurian remains from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Santa Marta Formation of the James Ross Island in the Antarctic Peninsula include several types of armour, the most abundant being tiny, button-like ossicles (less than 5 mm in diam...

Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover whi...

A Festa de Santos Reis como resistência espacial da cultura caipira (Juquitiba-SP)

A Festa de Santos Reis, uma manifestação da cultura caipira e do catolicismo popular, é realizada anualmente no município de Juquitiba-SP, no bairro rural dos Camargos. A partir dos conceitos de território e de territorialidade, busca-se co...

Effect of information and communication technology on cashew nut export in Benin

The introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) has altered the way society operates things. ICT is used in various sectors, including agriculture. It can be used in the agricultural sector to distribute pricing and encou...

Los conocimientos tradicionales en el ejercicio de la soberanía y seguridad alimentaria de las comunidades rurales, indígenas y campesinas, una alternativa para la sustentabilidad comunitaria

En el texto se exponen algunas reflexiones sobre la importancia que tiene el rescatar los conocimientos tradicionales de las comunidades rurales, indígenas y campesinas sobre las prácticas agrícolas y alimenticias como recurso y mecanismo p...

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SEPARATION OF MULTILAYER COMPOSITES

Waste Printed Circuit Boards (WPCBs) are integral components of virtually all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), forming the structural backbone of the electronics industry. Classified into single-sided, double-sided, multilayer, ri...

A contribuição de tecnologias de energia pas- siva para a eficiência energética e qualidade ambiental de escolas públicas: o caso do uso da luz natural em escolas de climas tropicais

Este trabalho visa demonstrar a importância da luz natural para a eficiência das edificações escolares através de simulações computacionais de estratégias captação de luz natural. Visa demonstrar em rápido exercício o desperdício, econômico...

Fieldwork for Human Geography

This wonderful book fills a gap by introducing under- graduates to the whys and mechanics of human geography fieldwork. Of course, one of the features that sets geography apart from other disciplin......

The domain of human geography

‘Human’ in human geography implies a subject matter; ‘Geography’ implies a way of viewing this subject matter. All geographers have in common an attraction for the out-door environment. To no small degree the recent quantitative analysis in...

Horizons in Human Geography

Horizons in Human Geography brings together 20 specially commissioned essays which range over the full breadth of its subject matter presenting a critical challenge to the philosophical positivism of...

Methods and Techniques in Human Geography

Exploring geographical data testing hypotheses measuring associations multivariate analysis generalized linear models and categorical data analysis spatial allocation spatial interaction spatial datatistics, spatial models and spatial struc...

Human agency and human geography

This commentary discusses the prospectus for a humanistic geography provided by the contributors to D. Ley, M. Samuels (eds) Humanistic geography: prospects and problems. The resurgence of a humanist tradition in geography has drawn its imp...

Human Agency and Human Geography

Remaking Human Geography

Introduction: Humanism and historical materialism in contemporary social geography, Suzanne Mackenzie and Audrey Kobayashi. Part 1 Issues: the social and economic imperatives of restructuring - a geographic perspective, John Bradbury restru...