Showing papers in "Geografiska Annaler Series B-human Geography in 1989"
TL;DR: In recent years, urban governance has become increasingly preoccupied with the exploration of new ways in which to foster and encourage local development and employment growth as mentioned in this paper, and urban entrepreneurship has become a hot topic.
Abstract: In recent years, urban governance has become increasingly preoccupied with the exploration of new ways in which to foster and encourage local development and employment growth. Such an entrepreneur...
4,183 citations
TL;DR: The focus, orientation and institutional organization of urban and regional policies in advanced capitalist countries has fundamentally changed over the last 15 years as mentioned in this paper, and the nature of these instituti-...
Abstract: The focus, orientation and institutional organization of urban and regional policies in advanced capitalist countries has fundamentally changed over the last 15 years. The nature of these instituti...
124 citations
TL;DR: The grand claims once made for the geography of enterprise have faded for lack of supporting evidence and clear theoretical separation of the casual powers of large firms from those of capitalist d... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The grand claims once made for the geography of enterprise have faded for lack of supporting evidence and clear theoretical separation of the casual powers of large firms from those of capitalist d...
84 citations
TL;DR: The analysis of personal attributes showed that fertility increased over the range on non-m migrants through circular-, return- to permanent-migrants, a finding explained by degrees of disruption of unions.
Abstract: The effects of migration on fertility in Ecuador were analyzed by subdividing migrant categories into permanent- return- circular- and non-migrants and context factors into 6 socioeconomic and agrarian variables. The study is introduced with a conceptual framework that explains personal intermediate variables and their influence on fertility in terms of demographic transition theory and then defines the influences of selection for fertility disruption of marital unions and socialization into fertility norms at the origin vs. assimilation of norms at the destination. Migrants are usually better educated younger and upwardly mobile all selecting for lower fertility. Migration disrupts formation of marital unions and causes separation of spouses lowering fertility. Data for this study were from the 1974 and 1982 Ecuadorian Population Censuses. The contextual variables analyzed were urban/rural; manufacturing/agricultural; mineral extraction/economic recession; long/recent agricultural settlement; domestic/export crop; and large/medium sized farm. The analysis of personal attributes showed that fertility increased over the range on non-migrants through circular- return- to permanent-migrants a finding explained by degrees of disruption of unions. Higher fertility was associated with less education lower economic participation higher prevalence of marriage longer residence and older ages. Regression analysis also showed that personal attributes outweighed contextual factors: thus age marriage rates residence time education and economic activity were significant. Contextual factors were important only for non-migrants except for destination variables which affected return-migrants and origin variables which affected circular-migrants. Low fertility was associated with urbanization industrialization mineral extraction large farms recent farm settlement and export crops. The results indicate cear influences of modernity and place influences on fertility of migrants.
20 citations
TL;DR: For over four centuries farmers on the Philippine island of Bohol have adapted a karst environment to a more suitable tropical environment as discussed by the authors, and thus require careful management and adaptation.
Abstract: Tropical karst environments are critically sensitive and thus require careful management. For over four centuries farmers on the Philippine island of Bohol have adapted a karst environment to a sus...
17 citations
TL;DR: Theories of entrepreneurship among immigrant groups and entrepreneurship in space are related in the context of the Israeli spatial policy as mentioned in this paper, and the analysis covered the effects of location and of ethni...
Abstract: Theories of entrepreneurship among immigrant groups and entrepreneurship in space are related in the context of the Israeli spatial policy. The analysis covered the effects of location and of ethni...
16 citations
16 citations
TL;DR: Kopparmora and Svinninge are two small communities in the Stockholm region which, despite the fact that they were originally planned as week-end and summer cottage areas, have a residential populat...
Abstract: Kopparmora and Svinninge are two small communities in the Stockholm region which, despite the fact that they were originally planned as week-end and summer cottage areas, have a residential populat...
16 citations
TL;DR: The interrelationships between macro and micro factors in the analysis of interstate migration in the United States are explored and a synthesis is attempted by combining objectively calibrated characteristics of states with their subjectively measured counterparts.
Abstract: The interrelationships between macro and micro factors in the analysis of interstate migration in the United States are explored. A synthesis between these factors is attempted "by combining objectively calibrated characteristics of states with their subjectively measured counterparts....First the relationships between the objective variables and their subjective counterparts are analyzed. Second both sets of variables are used to explain residential preferences and migration. Third a series of path models are constructed to indicate how the subjective variables act as intervening variables between their objective counterparts and migration." (EXCERPT)
14 citations
TL;DR: This article examined the spatial practices of advertising agencies, their conceptions and uses of space, and the relationship between the location of advertising and its practices indicating a greater importance of space than agencies admit.
Abstract: This paper contributes to an understanding of the geography of advertising by examining the practices of advertising agencies, their conceptions and uses of space. Most of their conceptualisation of targeted markets is said to be aspatial. Regions become important at the next stage when examining the distribution of the targeted market. Only the compositional effects of regional demand are considered. Contextual effects are largely ignored. The spatial practices of the agencies are dominated by regional weightings of advertising expenditure. Qualitative differences in advertising, such as regional tailoring, are much less common. Most regional weighting of advertising follows areas of existing high demand, thus reinforcing present consumption patterns. Such a process leads. in many cases, to the effective subsidising of existing areas of high demand because the differential costs of advertising are not passed on in proportionally differentiated prices of goods or services. Advertising is therefore spatially conservative and often regressive, because areas of high demand are frequently the most affluent. A discussion of the relationship between the location of advertising and its practices indicates a greater importance of space than agencies admit. The concentration of agencies in London and the South East suggests that they are more sensitive to developments in market segmentation in that region. The markets targeted by agencies in the nation as a whole may then reflect the degree and type of segmentation within the South East. Such spatial transfers of market segmentation may have a non-conservative, complex effect on patterns of demand.
12 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the Finnish settlers of the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River made some fundamental contributions to the forest colonization system utilized in the successful and rapid occupation of the eastern woodlands of North America.
Abstract: The author proposes that seventeenth-century Finnish settlers of the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River made some fundamental contributions to the forest colonization system utilized in the successful and rapid occupance of the eastern woodlands of North America. Such influence is selectively demonstrated in material artifacts, particularly folk architecture, carpentry, and fence building. The proposed explanatory mechanism the cultural ecological concept of preadaptation permits an understanding of how a small group of early settlers could instruct an emerging nation of pioneers in the techniques of forest colonization.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore certain dilemmas currently facing corporations that arise from transformations in the sphere of production and of competition, such as the advent of the Internet and social media.
Abstract: This paper explores certain dilemmas currently facing corporations that arise from transformations in the sphere of production and of competition. These transformations include the advent o...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify continuities and changes in the study of the geography of the Canadian North in the post-World War II period, represented in the people-environment and syst...
Abstract: This paper identifies some continuities and changes in the study of the geography of the Canadian North in the post-World War II period. Continuity is represented in the people-environment and syst...
TL;DR: The district moot and the private railway projects as discussed by the authors : spatial and political aspects of railway development in Sweden in the 1870's. But the district moot was not used in the construction of the railway in Sweden.
Abstract: The district moot and the private railway projects : spatial and political aspects of railway development in Sweden in the 1870's