Choice ; Distance ; Technology ; Transport ; Transport cost
This paper studies the endogenous choice of transport technology, traditional versus modern, by a shipper. Although the modern technology is characterized by higher fixed costs and a higher speed of transport, it is chosen for intermediate distances
, rather than to long distances. The reason is that, when the shipper switches to the modern technology, the industrial firm changes production from the home to the foreign city. Thus, the demand for transport decreases proportionally to the distance
between the home and foreign city. For long distances, revenue from transportation becomes so low that the modern technology does not break even.
Arab World ; Arab spring ; Conflict ; Democracy ; Information ; Information flow ; Internet ; Social movement ; Technology ; World
Répartition et croissance de plusieurs technologies d'information numérique dans sept pays secoués par les protestations récentes. Les technologies de l'information ont démocratisé la sphère du débat public dans tout le monde arabe. On dessine
technologies de l'information, notamment la vidéo, ont été utilisés par les masses arabes.
Activism ; Ideology ; Internet ; Organization ; Power ; Social change ; Social geography ; Technology
Les AA. analysent le phénomène WikiLeaks, son caractère anarchiste et les technologies déployées favorisant la différence d'opinion. Tout d'abord, ils identifient les principales caractéristiques de ce mouvement puis définissent l'anarchisme
. Ensuite, ils mettent en lumière le caractère anarchique des technologies employées favorisant les divergences d'opinion puis présentent la politique radicale de l'organisation. Ils concluent par les tensions et les contradictions inhérentes à WikiLeaks
Remapping the border : geospatial technologies and border activism
Analyse des actions de cartographie le long de la frontière américano-mexicaine afin d'explorer comment les activistes humanitaires manient les technologies géospatiales pour contester la sécurisation de la frontière. Ces technologies englobent
implications politiques de ces interventions, et on souligne comment des technologies alignées avec la sécurité et la surveillance de l'Etat ont été réappropriées au service de la solidarité transnationale et de l'hospitalité.
Beijing ; Canada ; China ; Creative industry ; Employment ; Europe ; Finland ; Industrial park ; Italy ; Labour market ; Montréal ; Northern China ; Professional qualification ; Quebec ; Research and development ; Seattle ; Students ; Technology
This paper analyses geography, skills and technological change through the following articles : 1-Sub-national graduate mobility and knowledge flows : an exploratory analysis of onward- and return-migrants in Italy ; 2-Analysis of the graduate
; 5-Localized technological change and efficiency wages across European regional labour markets ; 6-Places, spaces and the dynamics of creativity : the video game industry in Montreal ; 7-Entrepreneurship in a hub-and-spoke industrial district : firm
survey evidence from Seattle's technology industry ; 8-Comparing the impact of intra- and inter-regional labour mobility on problem-solving in a Chinese science park ; 9-Precarious transitions and labour market disadvantage : using longitudinal data
to explain the nature of work–welfare cycling ; 10-Subcontracting and supplier innovativeness in a developing economy evidence from China's information and communication technology industry.
La géographie du temps sous l'influence des technologies de l'information et de la communication
Communication ; Concept ; Information ; Space time ; Spatial interaction ; Technology ; Time geography
The paper addresses the latest trends in time geography and outlines the challenges and problems facing this area of research. It examines how information and communication technologies have contributed to currently changing concepts of classical
The challenge of wide application of information and communication technologies to traditional location theory
Les AA. étudient l’impact des technologies de l’information et de la communication sur la théorie traditionnelle de la localisation et la dynamique de la relocalisation industrielle. Ils expliquent que leur utilisation représente pour les
Architecture ; Infrastructure ; Madrid ; Political ecology ; Public space ; Spain ; Technology ; Urban area ; Urban planning
The article explores new ways of integrating technology, nature and infrastructures into urban public spaces. It is done through a case study, the design of this square of Madrid, which is offered here as a model to explore a novel urban political
, public and political agents provides a useful model to address the growing proliferation of infrastructural and technological elements onto contemporary urban surfaces and to open up the possibility of new forms of civic participation and engagement.
Geographical information system ; Geographical thought ; Information ; Poland ; Practice of geography ; Teaching of geography ; Technology ; Twentieth Century
geography and GIS and Technology (GISandT), it is argued here that this relationships is vital to the future of geography. The A. of this paper claims that GIS may offer a valuable theoretical background to geography seen as a science with a clear spatial
identity. Equally critical for geography and geographers, geographic information technologies have undergone rapid development recently, due to a number of activities on the national, European or global scales. The latter include the setting up of spatial
information infrastructure. Importantly, the technologies in question are being used more and more frequently by geographers in their everyday research work. The A. concludes that the relationship between geography and GISandT should be perceived
Human capital and growth of information and communication technology-intensive industries : empirical evidence from open economies
Communication ; Educational level ; Employment ; Industry ; Information ; Manpower ; Productivity ; Professional qualification ; Technology ; Value added
This paper examines the effect of human capital on the growth of information and communication technology (ICT)-intensive industries using data from a sample of open economies over the period 1980–1999. The econometric analysis suggests that value
Transforming small, medium, and microscale enterprises? Information-communication technologies (ICTs) and industrial change in Tanzania
L’A. analyse l’utilisation et l’impact des technologies de l’information et de la communication sur les activités des petites, moyennes et très petites entreprises à Dar es Salaam et à Mwanza (Tanzanie). Se basant sur les concepts de la géographie
temporelle et la théorie de la transition sociotechnique, il étudie dans quelle mesure ces technologies permettent-elles ou non de surmonter les contraintes liées à leurs activités et de transformer le régime industriel. Les résultats montrent que ces
Communication ; Household ; Household consumption ; Income ; Internal migration ; Labour market ; Migratory flow ; Regional disparities ; Regional economy ; Technology ; United States of America
and communication technologies. The first two are probably linked, as households have responded to decreasing real income over the last quarter-century through greater female labor force participation and maintaining current levels of consumption by borrowing ever
The article aims to show a vision of Lower Silesian countryside in the year 2050. The main global forces of changes were identified: demographical changes, environmental, economic and technological. The pillar of vision was a set of the following
assumptions : (1) no silver bullet – not assumed of incremental advances in technology, (2) no World War III, (3) no hidden genies – e.g. no killer disease pandemic, a meteorite impact and other accidents with low probability of occurrence, (4) the global
Emerging geography of technological innovation in China's ICT industry : region, inter-firm linkages and innovative performances in a transitional economy
Engineering spatial fixes : relational, spatial practices, strategic-topological approach and the construction of a Finnish science-technology district
Cartographic information ; Gender ; Geographical information system ; Geoweb ; Health ; Human body ; Information ; Technology ; Thematic mapping
technology using ideal types ; 5-Gender and the GeoWeb : divisions in the production of user-generated cartographic information ; 6-Diamond exploitation in Sierra Leone 1930 to 2010 : a resource curse? ; 7-A three-step strategy for generalization of 3D