The Dictionary of Human Geography

Trading Systems (LETS) is evidence of this (seealternative economics). So too is the growth of gardening and maid services in ci ...

It refers to the forces and relations of material production that, in Marx’s classic writings, provide the foundation (or ‘base’ ...

Consequently, a definition of the inner city cannot be limited to location and age ofhous- ingalone (seehousing studies). In the ...

these generate such complex outcomes over space that Morgan (2004) proposed a focus onterritorial innovation systemssensitive to ...

substance of the economy. Institutional parameters, as Hodgson (1988) argues in his celebrated book, explain economic variety, e ...

institutions and their role in the making of space and place. But its most significant im- pact has undoubtedly been in economic ...

the lives of others. But the porosity ofplace has varied, and may be transformed forcibly (bywar), peacefully (through agreement ...

model of property on to situations involving peoples who might collectively make sense of the world in very different terms. Wha ...

what they are. Formally, ‘a relationABmay be defined as internal if and only ifAwould not be what it essentially is unlessBis re ...

(seeaid). This has generated criticisms from a range of popular organizations, governments and economists, making the IMF somewh ...

birth date is usually taken to be 1985, when the US National Science Foundation created NSFNet, allowing universities access to ...

of commodity flow, passenger trips, traffic movements and so on. The volume of move- ment between an origin and a destination is ...

without becoming absorbed within and over- whelmed by them. If overwhelmed, the inter- viewer can move too quickly through diffi ...

to April 2006. The term ‘intifada’ was also invoked by some Iraqi political movements opposed to the US occupation since 2003 an ...

access to knowledge-rich workers will seek to invest in clusters, such as Silicon Valley (Saxenian, 1994), rather than rustbelt ...

J just war A war whose cause and conduct can be ethically justified (seeethics). The desire to specify the conditions under whic ...

objective is to reduce the quantity of produ- cers’ capital tied up in inventories of parts and finished products, producers no ...

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