The geography of freight transportation evolves at various scales, but it is increasingly acknowledged that freight flows occurring at the local level are a result of global and regional economic processes. Internationally, distribution networks have expanded, namely through the division of production, manufacturing and consumption. This has been accompanied by a growth of the quantity of freig...

BACKGROUND To adequately address the complex health needs of young people, their access to services, and the quality of services received, must be improved. AIMS To explore the barriers to service provision for young people and to identify the training needs of primary healthcare service providers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. DESIGN OF STUDY A cross-sectional, qualitative study of t...

Drawing from the experience in research and practice the paper tries to discuss the effectiveness of participatory approaches in dealing with the problem of the growing fragmentation of contemporary urban societies. It is divided into three parts. In the first part there is a description of how “fragmentation” can be a key concept to interpret very different phenomena in contemporary urban soci...

R&D Consortium is occupying the interest of policy makers as a means for industrial growth. One of the typical example is the semiconductor industry, in which many countries have formed consortia in the late 1980's. Out of these nations, the United States and Korea industries have (re)gained competitiveness in terms of world market share. However, in order to understand the role of consortia in...

Shuming Bao University of Michigan [email protected] IIntroduction Although spatial phenomena have been extensively studied in various research fields, such as economic geography (e.g., convergence in per capita income growth rates, inter-regional and intersectorial flows of labor and capital, and regional resource endowments), environmental sciences (e.g., dispersion of air-borne pollutants, soil...

This paper proposes a conceptual framework of agenda dynamics that will guide communication research priorities on the designing and implementation of reoriented development programmes in the African context. The framework consists of three agendas group, traditional/urban media, and public policy. The paper advocates the integration of all three agendas into a unified, coherent strategy. The a...