Zur Qualitätsberwertung von Luftbildern unter Produtionsbedingungen. (Quality evaluation of aerial photographs under production conditions)
Possibilities to improve the quality evaluation of aerial photographs are discussed from the point of view of the user of aerial photographs. The evaluation criteria necessary for the description of the characteristic quality aspects are illustrated
Institutions, the governance of quality and on-farm value retention for Indonesian specialty coffee
Agricultural product ; Coffee ; Governance ; Indonesia ; Institution ; Quality of product
L'A. étudie comment les identités géographiques sont utilisées comme un outil spécifique pour créer de la valeur ajoutée dans la production agricole de qualité : exemple du café dans les Célèbes du Sud.
The conflict in the growth of the Nigerian petroleum industry and the environmental quality
Années 1962-1980 ; Croissance économique ; Géographie de l'Afrique ; Nigéria ; Production ; Produit national brut ; Protection de la nature ; Pétrole ; Qualité de l'environnement
The poor shall inherit the earth: issues of environmental quality and Third World development in Environmental quality-A relevant concern for the 1980s.
Pression démographique et urbanisation galopante, techniques agricoles et production industrielle, inégalités sociales et habitudes de consommation importées: tout cela influe sur la détérioration de la qualité de l'environnement dans le Tiers-Monde.
Productquality and regional accessibility to knowledge among Japanese manufacturing industries
Communication ; Environnement économique ; Fonction de production ; Industrie ; Japon ; Produit industriel ; Recherche-développement ; Stratégie d'entreprise
Communication ; Economic environment ; Firm strategy ; Industry ; Japan ; Manufactured products ; Production function ; Research and development
of testing, and reliability of exploratory results. The purpose in to review for, and make applicable to, those charged with refining and power production the great number of individual results of coal-quality exploration in the form of quality passports
From lignite prosperities becoming efficient in the stages of processing (power generation, briquetting, and thermal refining) the authors define their attitude regarding problems of exploring the coal quality. They include methods and extent
Chocolate, consumption, manufacturing and quality in Western Europe and the United States
Agribusiness ; Cocoa ; Consumption ; Europe ; Food ; Food product ; Innovation ; Marketing ; Preference ; Production ; Quality of product ; United States of America
Alimentation ; Cacao ; Chocolat ; Commercialisation ; Consommation ; Etats-Unis ; Europe ; Industrie agro-alimentaire ; Innovation ; Production ; Produit alimentaire ; Préférence ; Qualité du produit
Spatializing globalization : a geography of quality in the seafood industry
Agribusiness ; Consumption ; Fishing industry ; Food product ; Globalization ; Industry ; Japan ; Quality of product ; Spatial differentiation ; Thailand ; United States of America
Mondialisation et différenciation spatiale. Les géographies de la qualité : la qualité dans la production industrielle alimentaire. Une géographie de la qualité du surimi : le surimi japonais domestique, le lien entre les Etats-Unis et le Japon
, entre la Thaïlande et le Japon, entre la Thaïlande et Singapour, entre les Etats-Unis et la Corée du Sud, une nouvelle industrie européenne, les changements dans la production des Etats-Unis.
This article examines the impacts, both real and potential, which are emanating from such diverse activities as agriculture, resource recovery, pollution abatement and the production of renewable energy resources. The environmental impact of nearly
Serving the knowledge-based society : research on knowledge products
This book contains the results of three research projects carried out between 1957 and 1990 on the subject of information transmission and more specific on the quality of information in an educational context. - (AGD)
Economie régionale ; Economie spatiale ; Espace ; Espace concentrique ; Foncier ; Géographie humaine ; Localisation ; Modèle d'équilibre ; Modèle de production ; Monoproduction ; Production ; Rente foncière ; Utilisation du sol
a spatial equilibrium with n goods where several qualities of soil exist raises difficulties. When several techniques are used to manufacture a product then it is shown how different techniques are located in relation to the centre according to prices
Problems of location and land rent within the framework of a linear and multisector production model in a radioconcentric space. In the case of a single product, the order of the differential soil fertility and location rent is examined. Formulating
Gendered global production networks : analysis of cocoa–chocolate sourcing
Agriculture ; Andhra Pradesh ; Cocoa ; Export ; Food consumption ; Gender ; Ghana ; India ; Power ; Production network ; Quality of product ; Social geography ; Supplying ; Tamil Nadu ; Woman
Agriculture ; Andhra Pradesh ; Approvisionnement ; Cacao ; Chocolat ; Consommation alimentaire ; Exportation ; Femme ; Genre ; Ghana ; Géographie sociale ; Inde ; Pouvoir ; Qualité du produit ; Réseau de production ; Tamil Nādu
) and in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu (India). It shows that women consumers ascribe to ‘quality’ chocolate, yet women's contribution to quality cocoa production is poorly remunerated, enhancing value capture by chocolate companies. It concludes
This article examines gendered global production networks through analysis of cocoa–chocolate sourcing. To do so, it analyses the value chain is linking Europe and cocoa-growing regions in the Western, Eastern and Ashanti regions (Ghana
that contested gendered power asymmetries and societal ‘re-embedding’ could potential-ly contribute to economic and social upgrading of women farmers and workers, enhancing future quality cocoa sourcing.
Proposal and application of an environmental quality index for the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina ; Buenos Aires ; Environment ; Environmental quality ; Index ; Large city ; Leisure ; Living environment ; Social construction ; Territorial resource ; Urban environment
In Argentina, there is delay in the production of environmental indices in relation to others associated with social and economic variables. To fill this gap the paper proposes the development of an Environmental Quality Index composed of 23
‘If no gasoline, no water’ : privatizing drinking water quality in South Texas colonias
Community ; Drinking water ; Governance ; Institution ; Political geography ; Privatisation ; Subjectivity ; Texas ; United States of America ; Water ; Water quality
This article examines the privatization of drinking water quality in South Texas colonias. It focuses on the emergence of the ‘water consumer’, or the individual who purchases drinking water from the vending machine. This approach addresses
the coproduction of political subjectivities in relation to institutional change and how subjectivity reconstitutes a new hydrosocial relationship mediated by the water vending machine. It argues for a relational approach that attends to the production of political
The concentrations of high quality non-production activities in core regions and the concentration of low qualityproduction oriented activities in peripheral regions are believed to be a major factor in determining the differences of economic