DISCUSSES THE RATIONALE, STRATEGIES, AND PROCEDURES OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN GEOGRAPHY. AMONG TOPICS COVERED: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PURPOSE OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH AND THE LONG-TERM GOALS OF THE DISCIPLINE: THEORY BUILDING FOR KNOWLEDGE
INTEGRATION AND PROPAGATION| THE NATURE OF MODELS AND THE RATIONALE BEHIND THEIR CONSTRUCTION| REGIONALIZATION AS A WAY OF ORDERING VARIANCE| AND COPING WITH HUMAN BEHAVIOURAL ASPECTS IN GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH.
Local strategies for coping with hunger : Central Sierra Leone and Northern Nigeria compared
Based on fieldwork in Kaita near Katsina in northern Nigeria, and Mogbuama in Sierra Leone the A. considers that rather than meddle with middlemen strategies the problems should be tackled at village level with agricultural research and development
Audit ; Community ; Economic strategy ; Locality ; Londonderry ; Northern Ireland ; Town ; United Kingdom ; Urban planning
Utilisation d'audits communautaires pour aider à formuler un plan. Evaluation empirique du développement d'une stratégie d'exécution de l'initiative ville de l'Union européenne à Derry/Londonderry, Irlande du Nord. La détermination du contenu du
Antarctic Ocean ; Arctic Ocean ; Climatic variation ; International cooperation ; Research ; Researchstrategy ; Sea ice ; World ocean
Antarctique océan ; Arctique océan ; Coopération internationale ; Glace de mer ; Océan mondial ; Recherche ; Stratégie de recherche ; Variation climatique
glaces de l'océan glacial arctique et de l'Antarctique. Formulation d'une stratégie globale d'observations de l'océan et d'orientations prioritaires.
Global localization? Japanese research and development laboratories in the USA
Car industry ; Electronics ; Firm strategy ; Industrial complex ; Industry ; Information flow ; Japaneses ; Location ; Research and development ; United States of America
Examen des stratégies industrielles liées à un nombre croissant de laboratoires de recherche-développement japonais aux Etats-Unis. Les AA. utilisent un modèle de localisation globale, stratégie qui vise à promouvoir l'émergence d'un complexe
actually continue to be economically motivated, individual strategies of making a living and developping social embeddings have been declared by migration researchers to be cultural rather than economic and socioeconomic issues. The article sheds some
Migration research has only occasionally been considered an explicit part of the cultural turn in social sciences. This holds even true for recent attempts at establishing a transnational migration approach. Though relevant migration processes
Data processing ; Decision making process ; Environment ; Forecast ; Model ; Research ; Risk ; Uncertainty
This paper argues for more open treatments of uncertainty in environmental research. Such openness requires an appreciation of the social and psychological causes of uncertainty, the role of observations as imperfect and contingent expressions
of visible events, and the myriad ways in which scientific information can be misinterpreted, misused, or sidelined in environmental decision-making. The paper begins with a discussion of the nature and causes of uncertainty in environmental research
’ that characterize recent work in environmental research.
[b1] NOAA/National Weather Service and University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Etats-Unis
Same disease—different researchstrategies : Bananas and Black Sigatoka in Brazil and Colombia
Banane ; Brésil ; Colombie ; Epidémie ; Innovation ; Magdalena ; Nordeste ; Production agricole ; Produit agricole ; Recherche ; Recherche-développement ; Rôle de l'Etat ; Santé ; Stratégie de recherche ; Technologie ; Urabà
Agricultural product ; Agricultural production ; Banana ; Brazil ; Colombia ; Epidemic ; Health ; Innovation ; Nordeste ; Research ; Research and development ; Role of the State ; Technology
Using the cases of Brazil and Colombia, this paper examines different agricultural research responses to the Black Sigatoka disease. Brazil opted to replace susceptible varieties with resistant ones, whereas in Colombia chemical control by private
actors dominated. We argue that these different responses result from at least three interrelated factors. First, producer type—smallholder farmers or larger export-oriented plantations—influences the setting of crop protection research priorities. Second
, a central, state-led role versus a private sector response influences the size and time perspective of research activities. Third, domestic markets with multiple crop varieties versus Cavendish-only export markets leads to differences in control practices
Research on political institutions and their response to the problem of increasing CO in the atmosphere in Social Science research and climate change. An interdisciplinary appraisal.
Axes de recherche en sciences politiques: perception des besoins et des valeurs, relations avec l'idéologie, stratégies judiciaires ou législatives, mécanismes d'ajustement pour l'agriculture, couverture des préjudices subis, réglementation et
Threshold of tolerance model : strategy for international travel
Australie ; Compagnie aérienne ; Gestion ; Modèle ; Organisation ; Seuil de tolérance ; Stratégie d'entreprise ; Transport ; Transport aérien ; Voyage d'affaires
Air transport ; Airline company ; Australia ; Business travel ; Firm strategy ; Management ; Model ; Organization ; Tolerance threshold ; Transport
The purpose of this research is to investigate what factors influence the management of International Business Air Travel (IBAT). The researchers interviewed business travellers, travel organisers and executives involved in IBAT from ten
Preliminary research on problems of northeast China's participation in the northeast Asian economic cooperation
Asie ; Asie du Nord-Est ; Chine ; Chine du Nord-Est ; Coopération économique ; Développement ; Participation ; Relations internationales ; Stratégie de développement
Asia ; China ; Development ; Development strategy ; Economic cooperation ; International relations ; Northeast Asia ; Northeast China ; Participation
The objective of this research is to acquire knowledge of the subjective rating of locational environments by entrepreneurs, in order to extend behavioural location theory and to support government policy in this field. The research was carried out
Enseignement de la géographie ; Enseignement supérieur ; Italie ; Politique de l'éducation ; Recherche ; Stratégie éducative
Higher education ; Italy ; Research ; Teaching of geography
policies at large. The second one is related to the lack of general strategies aimed at creating the indispensable interaction between research and teaching. - (NF)
Reducing attrition among village health workers in rural Nigeria in Field applications of operations research in primary health care within developing countries-Part II.
Programme d'aide aux populations rurales en matière de services de santé. Recherche opérationnelle d'une stratégie praticable.
The survey of a sample of 64 empirical industrial district studies shows that few researchers have measured and analysed network structures, and none have studied performance outcomes of variations in network structure. An evolutionary perspective
is used to propose a research agenda for a better understanding of the relationship between network structure and innovation.
First, the A. outlines the nature of market intelligence and its value to producers based on the existing literature and empirical research in the Canadian software product sector. Second, she investigates the spatial dimensions of the process.
Putting critical realism to work: the practical implications for geographical research
Epistemology ; Philosophy of sciences ; Post-modernism ; Research ; Social sciences ; Social theory ; Theory
Aspects pratiques de la recherche induite par le réalisme critique: interrelations entre théorie et méthode, entre recherche abstraite et concrète. Rôle des stratégies d'analyse qualitative. Possibilités de dialogue avec le postmodernisme et le
Activism ; Concept ; Decision making process ; Feminism ; Geographic research ; Post-modernism ; Power ; Social exclusion ; Social geography ; Social theory