[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] The authors investigated the role of formal and informal credit in non-farm activities among Vietnamese rural households using pooled cross-sectional data from household surveys in 2016 and 2018. The econometric analysis confirms that households with more …

Access to credit and non-farm activities: A quantitative analysis of household surveys in rural Vietnam Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] In 1990, Romania and other CEE countries embarked on a political shift that prompted radical structural and spatial changes in economic activities. Industrial restructuring holds a central role in strengthening both EU convergence and internal socioeconomic …

From command to market-driven economy: the changing role of manufacturing industries in Romania Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] Residential gating is a notable element in cities worldwide, but notable gaps exist in studies of residential gating in smaller cities and the Global South. This article examines the historical and urban geographies of residential gating …

Gated communities in Bahrain: historical and urban geographies Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] This article contributes to the debate of small centre urbanization and positions it amidst three emerging challenges: urban-rural transformation, economic experimentation, and disaster risk mitigation. To examine the entanglement of the three forces, we analysed the …

Small town urbanization and project experimentation in Pangandaran Region, Indonesia Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] The main objective of this work was to describe the functional structure of small towns located in the least-developed Polish voivodships (the so-called eastern Polish wall) and its changes between 2008 and 2018. An additional goal …

Changes in the functional structure of small towns in the least developed regions of Poland Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] There is a long-standing interest in the spatial relationship between contextual characteristics and crime rates in the U.S. since such a relationship allows police and stakeholders to design crime prevention programs to better target areas at …

Crime rates and contextual characteristics: a case study in Connecticut, USA Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] Economic growth and urban agglomeration have triggered an increase in the size and mobility of the Metropolitan Mamminasata urban population. This study aims to analyse spatial interactions working as a determinant of connectivity of the transportation …

Population mobility and sustainable development in the Mamminasata Metropolitan South Sulawesi, Indonesia Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] The unequal geographic distribution of health determinants could denote situations of environmental injustice. This work aims to identify spatial patterns of respiratory disease mortality and their association with the education level and the atmospheric pollution in …

Geographic health inequalities in Madrid City: exploring spatial patterns of respiratory disease mortality Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] The current study examines the interactions of people living around Lake Eber with the lake and their use of it from a cultural and political ecology perspective. In this context, fieldworks were carried out in different …

The cultural and political ecology of reed-cane craftsmanship in Lake Eber Read more »

[wptabs style] [wptabtitle]Abstract[/wptabtitle] [wptabcontent] The main aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial dynamic of public hospital beds in Romania (1992-2018) in order to grasp the potentially uneven development of the health care infrastructure following state policies of …

Development inequalities of Romanian physical public healthcare infrastructure: the case of hospital beds Read more »