Report on a survey of households in eleven urban areas of Papua New Guinea, 1974 - discusses population characteristics partic. Employment, housing, income, population growth, unemployment, educational level, level of qualification, internal migration, human settlements, economic growth and contact with the rural areas. Graphs, map, references, statistical tables.
This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
Report on a survey of households in eleven urban areas of Papua New Guinea, 1974 - discusses population characteristics partic. Employment, housing, income, population growth, unemployment, educational level, level of qualification, internal migration, human settlements, economic growth and contact with the rural areas. Graphs, map, references, statistical tables.
This book discusses the displacement of urban populations, inequality, and poverty in three cities in South Asia—Colombo, Jaffna in Sri Lanka, and Kochi in India. It focuses on the long-term effect resettlement and relocation has on the lives and livelihoods of urban internal displacement of populations (IDPs) primarily from urban poor classes. It also discusses the concerns faced by the displacement in post-war Sri Lanka. It examines the impacts of conflict on poverty and recovery in peri-urban settings. It emphasizes the role of agency of urban IDPs in strengthening their own well-being. It draws attention to how the agency of urban IDPs is compromised by the displacement processes and the weak local level governance structures in the cities. The book is intended for researchers, graduate students, and teachers of Geography, Social Policy, Refugees and Migration Studies, History, International Development, Urban Studies, and South Asian Studies.
This pioneering independent effort to assess the state of India's public services from a user's perspective brings together the responses of citizens from 37,000 rural and urban households on the delivery, quality, and responsiveness of public services. While the state's monitoring of service delivery seldom goes beyond tracking public expenditure and physical outputs, this study fills that gap and provides unique benchmarks with respect to five basic services: drinking water, primary health care, primary education, public distribution of food, and public transportation across the major states.
Thinking spatially in the social sciences / Michael F. Goodchild and Donald G. Janelle -- Inferring the behavior of households from remotely sensed changes in land cover : current methods and future directions / Bruce Boucek and Emilio F. Moran -- Geovisualization of human activity patterns using 3D GIS : a time-geographic approach / Mei-Po Kwan and Jiyeong Lee -- Agent-based modeling : from individual residential choice to urban residential dynamics / Itzhak Benenson. Too much of the wrong kind of data : implications for the practice of micro-scale spatial modeling / David O'Sullivan -- Neighborhood-level analysis. Identifying ethnic neighborhoods with census data : group concentration and spatial clustering / John R. Logan and Wenquan Zhang. Spatial analyses of homicide with areal data / Steven F. Messner and Luc Anselin. Spatial (dis)advantage and homicide in Chicago neighborhoods / Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff. Measuring spatial diffusion of shots fired activity across city neighborhoods / Jacqueline Cohen and George Tita. The spatial structure of urban political discussion networks / Munroe Eagles, Paul Bélanger, and Hugh W. Calkins -- Region-level analysis. Mapping social exclusion and inclusion in developing countries : spatial patterns of Sào Paulo in the 1990s / Gilberto Cǎmara, Aldaiza Sposati, Dirce Koga, Antonio Miguel Monteiro, Frederico Roman Ramos, Eduardo Camargo, and Suzana Druck Fuks. Business location and spatial externalities : tying concepts to measures / Stuart H Sweeney and Edward J. Feser. Updating spatial perspectives and analytical frameworks in urban research / Qing Shen. Spatial analysis of regional income inequality / Sergio J. Rey. Shaping policy decisions with spatial analysis / Ted K. Bradshaw and Brian Muller. Geographical approaches for reconstructing past human behavior from prehistoric roadways / John Kantner -- Multi-scale spatial perspectives. Time, space, and archaeological landscapes : establishing connections in the first millennium BC / Patrick Daly and Gary Lock. Spatial perspectives in public health / Anthony C. Gatrell and Janette E. Rigby. The role of spatial analysis in demographic research / John R. Weeks. Spatial interaction models of international telecommunication flows / Jean-Michel Guldmann. Planning scenario visualization and assessment : a cellular automata based integrated spatial decision support system / Roger White, Bas Straatman, and Guy Engelen.
