Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development
Volume II: Urban Development
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Sustainable Resource Governance: Lessons for the Future
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Resource Management, Sustainable Development, and Governance: Introduction and Overview
This volume is a festschrift in honor of Bruce Mitchell, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo and celebrates his contribution to the theme “resource management, sustainable development and ...
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Early and Modern Paradigms in Natural Resource Management: Global and Indian Experiences
In this chapter, the authors present: (1) India’s resource management problems, (2) review paradigm concept, (3) analyze evolution and application of identified paradigms and sub-paradigms, and (4) compare glo...
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Bruce Mitchell: Professional Career and Contributions
This chapter is a celebration of Bruce Mitchell’s distinguished career as a geographer who has been at the University of Waterloo, Canada for more than five decades. Bruce is an internationally recognized geog...
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Data and Methods in Spatial Science
One of the core strengths of scientific analysis is that it relies upon a base of evidence to make decisions and correct errors in the development of theory. The evidence that is used to describe the operative...
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Grants and Grant Writing
One of the many reasons that people enter into academia is for the opportunity to pursue their own research interests. The conduct of research often requires external funding, and obtaining support through sub...
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Reflections on Proposal Writing in Spatial Science
The research process is just that, a process. In this book, we have examined the process of research design and proposal writing. Yet, the focus of this book—and the accompanying proposals—is how to “propose”,...
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Urban and Regional Planning and Development: Introduction and Overview
This book is a festschrift in honor of Frank James Costa, a distinguished urban planner. The volume considers the urban and regional planning and development practice and experience in the twentieth century an...
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Spatial Science and Its Traditions
Research design is the critical process that transforms an idea, interest, or question from “just a thought” into a meaningful and purposeful investigation of human or physical processes. The central emphasis ...
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Research Questions
Spatial science research describes and explains the distribution of human and physical phenomena over the earth’s surface. Such research problems exist and may be analyzed across a vast spectrum of traditional...
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Graduate Degree Proposals
Graduate students are usually expected to write and defend a formal proposal of their thesis or dissertation project. While some students consider the proposal just another “hoop” in the graduate school proces...
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Model Proposals
Proposal writing is a skill that a scholar develops throughout her/his career. Indeed, writing itself is a development process. As the following model proposals illustrate, the style and prose of scholarly wri...
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Frank James Costa: Professional Career and Contributions
This historical essay is written to celebrate the more than five decades of urban planning and geography career of Dr. Frank James Costa at the University of Akron, describing the challenges and successes alon...
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Regional Development and Planning: An Overview
This chapter reviews the changing nature of regional development and planning, with an emphasis on research between 1990 and 2018. Regional development and planning has emerged as a major interdisciplinary fie...
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Literature Reviews
Writing [the literature review] well is a sign of professional maturity; it indicates one’s grasp of the field, one’s methodological sophistication in critiquing others’ research, and the breadth and depth of ...
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Introduction: Urban Development
This book is the second volume of a two-volume festschrift in honor of Professor Baleshwar Thakur – titled “Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development.” The volume is intended to provide...
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Baleshwar Thakur: Professional Career and Contributions
This chapter is a discussion of the growth, evolution, and contribution of Baleshwar Thakur (B.T.) to Indian geographic research. He is a doyen among Indian geographers and has been an acclaimed teacher, schol...
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Introduction: Regional Resources
Natural resources are attributes found in nature such as coal, wilderness, water, soil, and air that can be used as factors of production. A resource is a means to an end. Although resources are plentiful, the...
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Baleshwar Thakur: Professional Career and Contributions
This chapter is a discussion of the growth, evolution, and contribution of Baleshwar Thakur (B.T.) to Indian geographic research. He is a doyen among Indian geographers and has been an acclaimed teacher, schol...
