Based on field work and documentation, the book provides an overall examination of Kenya's experience with urban industrial siting practices. It discusses the salient features of Kenya's industrial development policies, planning, and environmental
Family life ; House work ; Perception ; Public space ; Residential environment ; Rural area ; Segregation ; Semiotics of space ; Sexual discrimination ; Social geography ; Social life ; Space time ; Urban area ; Urban crisis ; Urban practice ; Urban
. Šalamon. Prof. V. Švambera, director of the Geographic institute of the university founded the State map collection (1920). Just a half century worked prof. K. Kuchař. He was not only a cartography teacher and scholar but also an organizer and practical
Canada ; Community ; Conflict ; Gender difference ; Local administration ; Local policy ; Ontario ; Social class ; Social practice ; Societal relations ; Society
of gender and class relations in and against local states. Two Canadian examples are used. The first is that of recent feminist and working-class struggles within Ontario's legal-aid clinic system. The second is that of the development of a women-only
Nesting passeriformes and pastoral practices. Contribution to an ecological monitoring of EEC ' art. 19 ' in Ariege region
surveys that took place during the spring of 1996 have been analyzed using correspondances factorial analysis and rising hierarchy classification. This work has allowed to grade the various factors of importance in the spreading of nesting passeriformes
. L'indicateur retenu ici est la population des passereaux nicheurs. Les relevés de terrain, effectués au cours du printemps 1996 ont été interprétés grâce à l'analyse factorielle des correspondances et à la classification hiérarchique ascendante. Ce travail
Working in the global food system: a focus for international comparative analysis
The A. proposes a conceptual and methodological focus for international comparative analysis which addresses the dialectical tension between the local and global. He offers an overview of the relevant work concerning global/local linkages
in the literature on the political economy of agroindustrial development. This interdisciplinary literature is related to work on the agroindustrial labour processes.
Determinants of journeys to work in Central London, 1954-93
Agglomeration ; Business district ; Commuting ; Econometric model ; Employment ; England ; Journey to work ; London ; United Kingdom ; Urban economy ; Urban transport
The paper explores Gottmann's geography prior to his work on megalopolis and its later development in the study of quaternary cities. By 1957 he had been publishing academic work for more of a quarter of a century. Analysis of that body of material
Association ; Organization ; Social network ; Society ; Space time ; Trade union ; Trade unionism ; Tradition ; United Kingdom ; Working class ; Working population
P. Krugman's work has been very influential in promoting the new trade theory and the new economics of competitive advantage. According to him, international trade is driven by increasing returns and external economies and by comparative advantage
. He draws on ideas from agglomeration economies to regional specialization. The AA. think that his work raises issues in the new industrial geography. But at the same time, they argue that his theory has significant limitations.
Commuting ; Distance travelled ; Energy consumption ; Journey to work ; Multivariate analysis ; Norway ; Oslo ; Workplace
A study of six companies in Greater Oslo indicates that both the modal split and the energy use for journeys to work are to a high extent influenced by the geographical location of the workplace. Employees of workplaces in peripheral, low-density