Water demand management in Yemen and Jordan: addressing power and interests [0.03%]
也门和约旦的水资源需求管理:解决权力与利益问题
Mark Zeitoun,Tony Allan,Nasser Al Aulaqi et al.
Mark Zeitoun et al.
This paper investigates the extent to which entrenched interests of stakeholder groups both maintain water use practice, and may be confronted. The focus is on the agricultural sectors of Yemen and Jordan, where water resource policymakers ...
Balancing urban and peri-urban exchange: water geography of rural livelihoods in Mexico [0.03%]
城乡交流的平衡:墨西哥农村生计的水地理学
Rolando E Díaz-Caravantes
Rolando E Díaz-Caravantes
The peri-urban area is the region where there is a more dynamic interaction between the urban and rural. The peri-urban area supplies natural resources, such as land for urban expansion and agricultural products to feed the urban population...
Geography and global health [0.03%]
地理与全球健康
Tim Brown,Graham Moon
Tim Brown
In the wake of the report of the World Health Organisation's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Closing the gap in a generation (Marmot 2008), this invited commentary considers the scope for geographical research on global hea...
Using GIS and perceived distance to understand the unequal geographies of healthcare in lower-income urban neighbourhoods [0.03%]
运用地理信息系统和感知距离理解低收入城市社区医疗保健的不平等地域分布
Timothy L Hawthorne,Mei-Po Kwan
Timothy L Hawthorne
Geographers play important roles in public health research, particularly in understanding healthcare accessibility, utilisation, and individual healthcare experiences. Most accessibility studies have benefited from the increased sophisticat...
Managing artisanal and small-scale mining in forest areas: perspectives from a poststructural political ecology [0.03%]
森林地区手工和小型采矿业的管理:后结构政治生态学的观点
Mark Hirons
Mark Hirons
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is an activity intimately associated with social deprivation and environmental degradation, including deforestation. This paper examines ASM and deforestation using a broadly poststructural political e...
An obsolete dichotomy? Rethinking the rural–urban interface in terms of food security and production in the global south [0.03%]
过时的二分法?从全球南方粮食安全和生产的角度重新思考城乡界面问题
Amy M Lerner,Hallie Eakin
Amy M Lerner
The global food system is coming under increasing strain in the face of urban population growth. The recent spike in global food prices (2007–08) provoked consumer protests, and raised questions about food sovereignty and how and where foo...
Biosecurity's unruly spaces [0.03%]
生物安全的混乱空间
Charles Mather,Amy Marshall
Charles Mather
This paper is about the geopolitics of animal health governance. Through a biosecurity event in South Africa's pig sector we examine changes in the way the governance of disease risk is configuring intra-national spaces. Our case suggests a...
Assuming too much? Participatory water resource governance in South Africa [0.03%]
参与式水资源治理在南非的实践及展望
Julia Brown
Julia Brown
This paper argues that participation in natural resource management, which is often coupled with moves for more local ownership of decision making, is based on three sets of assumptions: about the role of the state, the universality of appl...
Beyond water, beyond boundaries: spaces of water management in the Krishna river basin, South India [0.03%]
超越水,超越边界——印度南部克里希纳河流域的水资源管理空间
Jean-Philippe Venot,Luna Bharati,Mark Giordano et al.
Jean-Philippe Venot et al.
As demand and competition for water resources increase, the river basin has become the primary unit for water management and planning. While appealing in principle, practical implementation of river basin management and allocation has often...
Human stewardship or ruining cultural landscapes of the ancient Tula wells, southern Ethiopia [0.03%]
人类的管理还是破坏:埃塞俄比亚南方图拉井古代文化遗产保护之策
Waktole Tiki,Gufu Oba,Terje Tvedt
Waktole Tiki
This article uses the concepts of "human stewardship" and "ruined landscape" as a theoretical framework for analysing the community's perception of landscape change in the ancient tula well system of Borana in southern Ethiopia. The ancient...