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Innovation is a key driver of economic growth. However, an emerging body of literature has demonstrated a correlation between innovative places and highly unequal ones. This research investigates innovation as a potential driver of income inequality. Using patent data over a 30-year period, we develop a model to investigate the relationship between innovation and income inequality across Canadian regions. This research builds on previous studies of the innovation-i...
Il s’agit de présenter des outils géographiques informatisés permettant la localisation optimale d’un projet de ligne aérienne de transport tout en prenant en compte ses impacts environnementaux et sociaux (revue de la littérature et balisage international de compagnies, organismes et ministères). Les thèmes suivants sont abordés : logiciels et outils; critères; données et SIG; pondération, analyse multicritère, parties prenantes; algorithme d’optimisation; analyse, visualisation, rapports...
Off-grid energy infrastructure is now an established area in Geography, with its heterogeneous and varied socio-technical characteristics acknowledged across a range of countries in Africa. In this paper, I build on this body of knowledge by showing how innovative energy solutions in off-grid settings can constitute their own politics, where the introduction of safer forms of energy, such as solar, can have profound implications for everyday life. This view diverge...
Drawing on Marx’s distinction between the formal and real subsumption of labour under capital, the ‘subsumption of nature’ framework identifies the strategies by which nature-based industries harness biophysical processes to produce surplus value. In this framework, the formal subsumption of nature treats nonhuman natures as exogenous stocks of raw materials that produce absolute surplus value through ‘ex...