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Primary care clinic location decision-making and spatial accessibility for the region of Thessaly
Photis, Yorgos N.; Manetos, Panos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
methods of Spatial Analysis of GIS technology. Spatial Analysis focuses on evaluating existing and proposed models of spatial … organization, while GIS, provide the necessary informational tools for the elaboration and management of the relevant information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109528
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Geographic information analysis and health infrastructure
Photis, Yorgos N.; Manetos, Panos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Enterprises seek for development and growth  so  as  to increase  their  sales  and  profits. In  order  to  come  to  a  decision  on  how  this development  is  going  to  be  achieved  they  face an  endless  line  of  possible  strategies,  one ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257712
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The Long Term Impacts of Migration in British Cities: Diversity, Wages, Employment and Prices
Nathan, Max - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for … urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local …, suggest both processes are operating in British cities. Long-term industrial decline and casualisation of entry-level jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869290
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The Wrong Stuff? Creative Class Theory and Economic Performance in UK Cities
Nathan, Max - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Richard Florida’s ‘creative class’ theory suggests that diverse, tolerant, ‘cool’ cities will outperform others. Ethnic … cities get the best jobs and most dynamic companies. This paper examines Florida’s ideas, focusing on the evidence in British … cities. Drawing on previously published work, it first tests the Florida model on a set of British cities, finding weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869295
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Macro and Micro Spatial Equilibrium
D'Acci, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
These pages briefly mention the assumption of indifference between residing in different locations which is embodied in spatial equilibrium. Sometimes, for a person, a pure indifference may result, namely gains and costs (monetary or not) are entirely compensated among locations; but sometimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108486
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Dynamique urbaine et développement économique local : une revue de la littérature
Buda, Rodolphe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
Is urban space, as a concentric agglomeration in expansion, in contraction, which duplicates itself, the solution of a dierential system ? Does urban geometry come from "chaotic" mutations, from cloning and aggregating districts ? And do they project their metrics on space ? Then where does its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621330
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Economic Development and Loglinearity in the Rank-Size Distribution of Urban Systems
Mirucki, Jean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1985
, expressed in logarithmic form, of several classes of cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001203
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Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
L Indice Globale della Fame 2013 (GHI), relativo ai dati del periodo 2008-2012, mostra che la fame mondiale e diminuita di un terzo rispetto al 1990. Nonostante i progressi, il livello della fame nel mondo rimane "grave", con 870 milioni di persone a soffrirne, secondo le stime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850585
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2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security
von Grebmer, Klaus; Headey, Derek; Bene, Christophe; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which reflects data from the period 2008 to 2012, shows that global hunger has improved since 1990, falling by one-third. Despite the progress made, the level of hunger in the world remains serious, with 870 million people going hungry, according to estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850587
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2014 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hidden hunger
von Grebmer, Klaus; Saltzman, Amy; Birol, Ekin; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
With one more year before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the 2014 Global Hunger Index report offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960210