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Methods for Small Area Population Forecasts: State-of-the-Art and Research Needs
Small area population forecasts are widely used by government and business for a variety of planning, research and policy purposes, and often...
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The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai: Ethnographic Sources, Indigenous Ontologies and the Archaeoacoustics of Rock Art Sites
The acoustics of the Lower Chuya River area rock art landscape are analyzed through both the exploration of its acoustic properties and the...
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Eliciting Information for Develo** a Circular Economy in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
Advancing circularity in metropolitan areas involves planning, co-designing and implementing spatially explicit interventions with a multitude of...
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Local Area Estimates and Geographical Patterns of Australia’s Sexual Minority Population
The need for subnational population statistics by sexual identity is being increasingly recognised for a variety of service delivery, analysis, and...
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The Influence of Family Capital and Residential Area on the Chances of Accessing Tertiary Education
The aim of this chapter is to assess how social origin, measured by a well-being indicator and controlled by the area of residence, has influenced...
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Evaluating Alternative Implementations of the Hamilton-Perry Model for Small Area Population Forecasts: the Case of Australia
Small area population forecasts are widely used across the public and private sectors, with many users requiring forecasts broken down by sex and age...
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The Tri-Border Area in Images
This chapter presents a descriptive visual record of the Paraná Tri-Border Area (between Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay), using 40 images (map and...
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The Production of Emptied Places in the Borderlands of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires
The Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires concentrates almost one-third of the population of Argentina. A broad scope of social, urban, and habitational...
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Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) and the Quality of Life (QOL) of Destination Community Revisited
This chapter examines the connection between the tourism (TALC) and its effects on the quality of life (QOL) of destination communities. We posit...
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The Compact City in a Local Area
This chapter outlines the concept of compact cityCompact city in a specific local contextLocal context, which is the research viewpoint and...
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The resurgence of service-learning as a social impact tool for youth confidence-building and learning: the untapped latent capital of the Saldanha area
Social impact is complex and requires a multi-faceted approach to youth development. Hence, it is a comprehensive and all-inclusive process, and...
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Drought and migration: an analysis of the effects of drought on temporary labor and return migration from a migrant-sending area in Nepal
Although the relationship between drought – a dimension of climate change – and migration has been explored in a number of settings, prior research...
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Application of survival model to reveal influential objective and subjective variables to educate old metropolitan area residents in trading lands for housings: case of Tehran
Deteriorated land-uses constitute vast portions of the metropolitan areas, being small lots of land, hardly accessible, structurally unstable, and...
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Spatial Accessibility to Sports Facilities in Dongguan, China: a Multi-Preference Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Method
Equitable access to sports services has drawn much attention from policymakers and planners in China, as rapid urbanization and lifestyle changes...
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New Economic and Cultural Biases of Strategic Development in Lithuanian-Polish Cross-Border Functional Area Under the Impact of Pandemic and Migrations
The concepts of functional region and functional area are under the implementation in the regional policy of Lithuania and Poland. This is considered...
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The Spatial Variability of the Sex and Age- Specific 10-Year Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases and its Clinical Risk Factors in Athens Metropolitan Area: a Local Statistical Modelling Approach in the Context of the ATTICA Epidemiological Study
According to the published European public health policies, emphasis should be given on the identification of high-risk areas, in terms of both...
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Indigenous Peoples’ Strategies for Co** with Protected Area Policies and Treatment
Indigenous people around the world who have been affected by conservation-related resettlement have employed a number of strategies to cope with...
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Negotiating around ‘Human Trafficking’ in South Africa and the Border Area
Chapter 5 focuses on the historical and legal classification of human trafficking and the adaptation of the concept in the South African context with...
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Preliminary study of the characteristics of small-stone-industry in Jizhou area, Tian** in the Upper Paleolithic, based on Chuancangyu Dongling locality
Chuancangyu Dongling locality, which is located in Jizhou District of Tian** City, was found during the fieldwork by Production Center of Cultural...
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Land suitability analysis of urban development in the Aqaba area, Jordan, using a GIS-based analytic hierarchy process
Selection of suitable sites for sustainable urban development is one of the critical and complex issues in urban planning. Since many criteria must...
