Background: Local Ontario Early Years Centres (OEYCs) collect timely and relevant local data, but knowledge translation is needed for the data to be useful. Maps represent an ideal tool to interpret local data. While geographic information system (GIS) technology is available, it is less clear...

Background: Organizations that collect substantial data for decision-making purposes are often characterized as being 'data rich' but 'information poor'. Maps and mapping tools can be very useful for research transfer in converting locally collected data into information. Challenges involved in...

The stories we tell about "the economy" in discourses of regional economic development play an active role in shaping our economic realities. The construction of more equitable, democratic and ecologically-sound economies must involve an interrogation of our assumptions about what “the...

This honors thesis examines how individuals displaced by gentrification fare after relocation, with changes in wage and income as the primary measures of well-being. Geo-coded Panel Study of Income Dynamics data is used in conjunction with decennial census tract-level neighborhood data to...

Die beiden Begriffe, „Cluster“ und „nachhaltige Entwicklung“, zählen wahrscheinlich zu den meistgebrauchten und überstrapaziertesten Termini unserer Zeit. Eine Zusammenführung dieser beiden Konzepte auf der Ebene der Region stellt daher ein riskantes aber auch ambitioniertes...

Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Wirkungen der europäischen Regionalpolitik in Österreich. Zu Beginn werden die Grundlagen der Regionalpolitik bzw. der europäischen Regionalpolitik näher erläutert. Eine Darstellung der einzelnen Programmperioden in Österreich, wobei...

The objective of this thesis is to investigate the potential contribution of transnational corporations (TNC) to the upgrading of systems of innovation in late-industrialising countries. This study looks specifically at TNC-affiliierter in Thailand’s manufacturing sector and compares them with...

Anticipating the impact of changes in economic incentives on dietary quality and nutritional health requires knowledge of how physical quantities of food consumed respond to price and income variations. A problem arises, however, because physical quantities are: 1- not consistent aggregates in...