Agriculture ; Association ; Coffee ; Cooperative ; Guatemala ; Household ; Income ; Livelihood ; Mountain farming ; Quality of life ; Risk ; Social geography
circumstances with limited resources and opportunities. Yet, as they describe it, coffee represents an opportunity in a context of few opportunities, an imperfect means to a marginally better life.
This article analyzes how well-being is associated with geographical context, social contacts, and life circumstances in Hong Kong. First, it finds that life satisfaction is associated more strongly with geographical context than is momentary well
Country of origin ; Czech Republic ; Foreign worker ; Household ; International migration ; Labour migration ; Quality of life ; Remittances ; Social geography ; Ukraine ; Wage
at enhancing the Ukrainian remittance transfers from CEECs and ameliorating the quality of life in Ukraine.
Compact development without transit : life-cycle GHG emissions from four variations of residential density in Vancouver
This article examines compact development without transit through life-cycle GHG emissions from four variations of residential density in Vancouver. It founds a wide range of emissions profiles. A mixed-use new urbanist development produced fewer
Based on the energy consumption, integrated with the Top-Down life cycle approach and geographically weighted regression (GWR) model, this paper analyzed the spatial differences and multi-mechanism of carbon footprint in provincial China in 2010
. Firstly, the AA. calculated the amount of carbon footprint of each province using “Top-Down” life cycle approach and found that there were significant differences. Secondly, with the aid of GIS and spatial analysis model (GWR model), this paper had
Community ; Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Ethnic minority ; Forest ; Jawa ; Malaysia ; Place names ; Tradition ; Vegetation ; Way of life
through people's command of ancestral place-names. This paper provides an introduction to Semai toponymy and considers the implications of indigenous place-names on the protection of indigenous homelands and ways of life.
Cyberspace ; Economic crisis ; Economic geography ; Geopolitics ; Immigration policy ; Political geography ; Real estate development ; Sustainable development ; United States of America ; Vulnerability ; Way of life
Dans ce numéro spécial consacré aux Etats-Unis en 2014, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-Les Etats-Unis en 2014 : les vulnérabilités de l'hyperpuissance en question ; 2-Etats-Unis : dynamiques économiques, crise et territoires ; 3-Géopolitique
; 5-L'évolution des stratégies de contrôle des risques urbains aux Etats-Unis ; 6-Les sans-papiers, un enjeu multiscalaire pour les politiques migratoires aux Etats-Unis ; 7- A time to die : the American way of life in the Anthropocene.
Australia ; Melbourne ; Neighbourhood ; New South Wales ; Social geography ; Social housing ; South Australia ; Sydney ; Television ; Territorial stigma ; Territory ; Way of life
that they reflected on their own ‘real-life’ experiences and provide accounts of deliberate and self-conscious use of ‘negative’ social status to produce positive collective identities. Alternatively, nontenant participants repeated common prejudices about public