Keep costumes out, keep trains in : defining and defending spaces for “good jobs” in a Rust Belt city
This article compares and contrasts two efforts to define and defend inner-city brownfields redevelopment projects as spaces for good local jobs in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It finds that the influence of spatially defined job standards
defined job standards and to the roles of nonhuman products in political controversies over redevelopment.
Azimuthal analysis of stream orientations to define regional tectonic lines
, through the careful examination of the drainage network patterns. To this end a methodology has been defined to infer the existence of strike-slip faults on the basis of the quantitative characteristics of surface drainage and to verify whether
This article intends to explain connections between lifestyle and types of housing, that is between habitus and habitat. Four types of lifestyles were defined on the basis of the following characteristics : economic situation of the household
, ecological and cultural awareness and social standing. Type of housing was defined on the basis of the following elements : size of the building, purpose of the surroundings and auxiliary buildings, type of building ornaments and form of the building
. At least 10 types of houses that corresponds to defined lifestyles were found. - (IKR)
The A. focuses on the political processes that have defined and shaped the environmental agenda over the past five years : the uneven development, the role of scientific evidence in defining the scale of problems, the growing political importance
The AA. assert that the basic assumptions of hazardous waste regulation define the problem as a locational problem confronting the state, rather than an investment problem for the capital. Local opposition to facility siting is explained in terms
of the structural constraints that dispose the state to define management problems as siting problems.
Analysis of 52 published studies to determine the importance of scale in the debate over the causes of flooding in Bangladesh. Local studies have scales that are explicitly defined and focus on physical variables, whereas regional and continental
studies have implicitely defined scales that focus on natural resource topics. - (DWG)
A common property resource must be defined, and throughout the history of the Black Hills National Forest (1898 forward), there has been a community of people interested in defining and redefining it as a resource. Four historical periods
The paper concentrates on the basic features of annual precipitation and air temperature variation registered in 1950-2007. Characterization of annual precipitation values and air temperature changes allows to define months, seasons and half-year
periods with most intensive changes, detect any considerable asymmetries as well as the reasons for them. The paper defines change trends for precipitation sums’ and air temperature.-(BJ)
The article is about the new kind of migrant recently defines as ecorefugee. In particular, the contribution focuses on the definition, still under debate, the geographic distribution and the problems related to the quantitative assessment
according to the concept of “state of exception” defined by Giorgio Agamben. - (NF)