Showing papers in "Geoforum in 2018"

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical review presents evaluation of the achieved result and points out the activities that require adjustments, and also analyzes the challenges that need to be addressed to ensure food security in the global sense.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the literature on energy, environmental and climate justice on just transition is presented, showing that there are overlaps with energy, environment and climate change scholar communities.

TL;DR: The authors explores the development of the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) market in Ireland as part of a wider effort to deleverage the country's failed banking sector and to attract global, yield-seeking capital into the moribund property market.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine results, limitations and future potential of voluntary initiatives that have been carried out by selected European and North American port authorities, which are considered frontrunners in environmental management.

TL;DR: The authors argue for an alternative climate justice agenda that is enabled through grassroots mobilisation in collaboration with state action, noting the imperative of historically attentive state-enabled redistribution along persistent axes of difference.

TL;DR: The authors developed a typology of different ideological forms of remunicipalization, identifying key stakeholders and the nature of their support, as well as indicating prevalent formats and regional trends, and concluded that rem municipalization will continue in the medium term due to widespread dissatisfaction with privatization, combined with resistance from powerful multilateral actors, may make it difficult to sustain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the biopolitical spatialities that emerge from its qualification and quantification of bodily performances of hospitality, and suggest that these new geographies of hospitality are operationalized through the giving of "what is proper" on the part of the hosts in order to become members of a greater Self, the Airbnb global community.

TL;DR: This paper examined how transformations of a regional rural economy have produced new geographies of encounter between agricultural communities, their livestock, and carnivores surrounding Bandipur National Park in Karnataka, India.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the role of the state in social impact bonds is not as absent as portrayed by the dominant discursive representations that ambiguously position SIBs between state, market and philanthropy, thereby offering a malleable frame that allows interested actors to legitimize the implementation of this policy instrument.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of global financial networks in articulating the water-energy-food-climate nexus and connecting it to sustainability programs is examined, and a new insights into critical engagements with the nexus that, to date, have focused predominantly on water security and governance is provided.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the progress thus far in the Ethiopian SEZ and the implications for Ethiopia's wider investment in industrial parks as part of its developmental state project, and discuss the impact of the development of this zone on Ethiopia's structural transformation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the concept of environmental justice as a theoretical guide to explore the combined effects that these new policies have had for pastoralists in arid, rural Namibia.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between water and wellbeing is revealed as less straightforward than previously suggested, muddying the waters by highlighting elements of wateriness which can be highly disabling, including submersion, slipperiness and wetness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how real estate developers shape the production and use of urban expertise in the context of planning, which in turn influences how cities are planned and built.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the dramatic meatification of food provision and practice in Vietnam should be understood as the result of capitalist development processes and their associated economic and social changes, rather than the natural and inevitable outcome of development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the new mobility paradigm to the study of development corridors to generate important empirical and theoretical insights about peoples' lived experiences with corridors, as well as about the trajectories of power enacted through corridor development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on a dataset of 92 policy documents from six European nations to argue that, while some convergence is notable, particularly in relation to the ways in which student mobility is placed centre-stage within internationalisation strategies, key differences are also evident, with respect to: the scale of desired mobility; the characteristics of the imagined "mobile subject", the extent to which social justice concerns are brought into play; and the prioritisation given to outward mobility.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review blockchain's computer architectures, its connections to materiality and space, and the complexity of its established practices and show that blockchain contains multiple and conflicting agencies and is messily embedded in the code/space of materiality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the spatiotemporal practices that modulate the passion and imitation in and around hackathons and argue that these practices reinforce the neoliberal underpinnings and ethos of entrepreneurial and smart urbanism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the case of Detroit to tie bulk foreclosure sales to the rising rates of eviction and patterns of dispossession in the decade that followed, and argue that the outcomes of displacement and dispossession are tethered to the past and present racial-spatial ordering of US cities.

TL;DR: This paper looks at the spatialities of technological and user re-scripting associated with the introduction of decision support tools on-farm, investigating how tools themselves are co-constituted in various ways by different users in different spaces, but more particularly on how life on the farm may be changed by the introducing of decision tools.

TL;DR: In this paper, a critical look at how food retail firms use big data, looking specifically at how these techniques and technologies govern our ability to imagine food worlds, is presented by drawing on two sets of data: interviews with twenty-one individuals who oversaw the use of big data applications in a retail setting and five consumer focus groups composed of individuals who regularly shopped at major food chains along Colorado's Front Range.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper found that residents have considerably high place attachment in gated neighbourhoods and that private governance enhances neighbourhood attachment by emphasising market provisions, and that people develop an attachment to the neighbourhood socially, symbolically and functionally.

TL;DR: In this paper, gender dynamics and power relations underpinning participation, decision-making processes, and employment and benefit sharing arrangements among Water User Associations (WUAs) in the urban informal settlements of Lilongwe, Malawi were examined.

TL;DR: This paper explored cumulative exposure, climate justice, and flood risk with specific reference to community resilience, vulnerability, and social justice characteristics at the county-level within the U.S. Mississippi River basin from 1990 to 2009.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the potential of CRISPR/Cas genome editing to revolutionize agricultural biotechnology and breeding, which can contribute to advancing modern agriculture in multiple respects and lead to shifts in market structure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the industrial cluster literature has shaped contemporary thinking on the potential of small firms to become globally competitive through agglomeration gains and collective action, but the industrial clusters often generate negative environmental externalities.

TL;DR: In this article, a more detailed understanding of refugee integration by looking at opportunities for, and obstacles to, belonging within the ethnically homogeneous context of the Northern Netherlands is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the role of illicit capital in agrarian transformation globally and highlight the potential for transit spaces to shed much light on the workings of (illicit) global commodity chains and illicit economic geographies more broadly.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the changing relations of care which shape the everyday life of households and demonstrate how the care relations which underlie everyday im/mobilities are gendered and intergenerational, exceeding distinctions between productive and reproductive activities.