Spatial And Social Disparities

Author : John Stillwell,Paul Norman,Claudia Thomas,Paula Surridge
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048187508

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Spatial and Social Disparities by John Stillwell,Paul Norman,Claudia Thomas,Paula Surridge Pdf

Inequality is one of the major problems of the contemporary world. Significant geographical disparities exist within nations of the developed world, as well as between these countries and those referred to as the ‘South’ in the Bruntland Report. Issues of equity and deprivation must be addressed in view of sustainable development. However, before policymakers can remove the obstacles to a fairer world, it is essential to understand the nature of inequality, both in terms of its spatial and socio-demographic characteristics. This second volume in the series contains population studies that examine the disparities evident across geographical space in the UK and between different individuals or groups. Topics include demographic and social change, deprivation, happiness, cultural consumption, ethnicity, gender, employment, health, religion, education and social values. These topics and the relationships between them are explored using secondary data from censuses, surveys or administrative records. In volume 1 the findings of research on fertility, living arrangements, care and mobility are examined. Volume 3 will focus on ethnicity and integration.

Author : Ferenc Gyuris
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319015088

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The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities by Ferenc Gyuris Pdf

This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. It also reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the substantiation of political goals, while taking advantage of the legitimate authority of science and the image of scientific objectivity. The book explains how the discourse has functioned from 19th century social physics over the Cold War period up to Marxist geographies of the current neoliberal age, and in what way and to what extent political considerations prevent related concepts producing ‘objective’ knowledge about the complex phenomenon of spatial inequalities.

Author : Linda M. Lobao,Gregory Hooks,Ann R. Tickamyer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791479971

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The Sociology of Spatial Inequality by Linda M. Lobao,Gregory Hooks,Ann R. Tickamyer Pdf

2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Sociologists have too often discounted the role of space in inequality. This book showcases a recent generation of inquiry that attends to poverty, prosperity, and power across a range of territories and their populations within the United States, addressing spatial inequality as a thematically distinct body of work that spans sociological research traditions. The contributors' various perspectives offer an agenda for future action to bridge sociology's diverse and often narrowly focused spatial and inequality traditions.

Author : Ravi Kanbur,Anthony J. Venables
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191535303

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Spatial Inequality and Development by Ravi Kanbur,Anthony J. Venables Pdf

What exactly is spatial inequality? Why does it matter? And what should be the policy response to it? These questions have become important in recent years as the spatial dimensions of inequality have begun to attract considerable policy interest. In China, Russia, India, Mexico, and South Africa, as well as most other developing and transition economies, spatial and regional inequality - of economic activity, incomes, and social indicators - is on the increase. Spatial inequality is a dimension of overall inequality, but it has added significance when spatial and regional divisions align with political and ethnic tensions to undermine social and political stability. Also important in the policy debate is a perceived sense that increasing internal spatial inequality is related to greater openness of economies, and to globalization in general. Despite these important concerns, there is remarkably little systematic documentation of what has happened to spatial and regional inequality over the last twenty years. Correspondingly, there is insufficient understanding of the determinants of internal spatial inequality. This volume attempts to answer the questions posed above, drawing on data from twenty-five countries from all regions of the world. They bring together perspectives and expertise in development economics and in economic geography and form a well-researched introduction to an area of growing analytical and policy importance.

Author : Maarten van Ham,Tiit Tammaru,Rūta Ubarevičienė,Heleen Janssen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030645694

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Urban Socio-Economic Segregation and Income Inequality by Maarten van Ham,Tiit Tammaru,Rūta Ubarevičienė,Heleen Janssen Pdf

This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregation Thesis. Rising inequalities lead to rising levels of socio-economic segregation almost everywhere in the world. Levels of inequality and segregation are higher in cities in lower income countries, but the growth in inequality and segregation is faster in cities in high-income countries. This is causing convergence of segregation trends. Professionalisation of the workforce is leading to changing residential patterns. High-income workers are moving to city centres or to attractive coastal areas and gated communities, while poverty is increasingly suburbanising. As a result, the urban geography of inequality changes faster and is more pronounced than changes in segregation levels. Rising levels of inequality and segregation pose huge challenges for the future social sustainability of cities, as cities are no longer places of opportunities for all.

Author : Esra Ozdenerol
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781498701518

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Spatial Health Inequalities by Esra Ozdenerol Pdf

The neighborhoods and the biophysical, political, and cultural environments all play a key role in affecting health outcomes of individuals. Unequal spatial distribution of resources such as clinics, hospitals, public transportation, fresh food markets, and schools could make some communities as a whole more vulnerable and less resilient to adverse health effects. This somber reality suggests that it is rather the question of "who you are depends upon where you are" and the fact that health inequality is both a people and a place concern. That is why health inequality needs to be investigated in a spatial setting to deepen our understanding of why and how some geographical areas experience poorer health than others. This book introduces how spatial context shapes health inequalities. Spatial Health Inequalities: Adapting GIS Tools and Data Analysis demonstrates the spatial health inequalities in six most important topics in environmental and public health, including food insecurity, birth health outcomes, infectious diseases, children’s lead poisoning, chronic diseases, and health care access. These are the topics that the author has done extensive research on and provides a detailed description of the topic from a global perspective. Each chapter identifies relevant data and data sources, discusses key literature on appropriate techniques, and then illustrates with real data with mapping and GIS techniques. This is a unique book for students, geographers, clinicians, health and research professionals and community members interested in applying GIS and spatial analysis to the study of health inequalities.

Author : Alfredo Mela,Alessia Toldo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030172554

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Socio-Spatial Inequalities in Contemporary Cities by Alfredo Mela,Alessia Toldo Pdf

The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active role that space assumes in shaping social phenomena. Unlike similar books, it does not discuss exclusion and inclusion in particular geographical contexts, but instead explains these phenomena starting from the dense and complex set of relationships that links society and space. It particularly focuses on social differences and how the processes of exclusion and inclusion can produce a highly spatialized understanding of them, for example when particular groups of people are perceived as being out of place. At the same time, within the context of the different approaches that policies adopt to contrast the phenomena of social exclusion, it examines the role of participation as an instrument to promote bottom-up inclusion and cohesion processes.

Author : John Stillwell,Maarten van Ham
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789048191031

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Ethnicity and Integration by John Stillwell,Maarten van Ham Pdf

The theme of this volume is ethnicity and the implications for integration of our increasingly ethnically diversified population. New research findings from a range of census, survey and administrative data sources are presented, and case studies are included.

Author : Katrien De Boyser,Jürgen Friedrichs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317174912

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Between the Social and the Spatial by Katrien De Boyser,Jürgen Friedrichs Pdf

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated. This transition to a more multidimensional conceptualization of poverty forms the background and starting point of this book. Researchers studying the 'social' and 'spatial' dimensions of poverty have only started to challenge and explore the boundaries of each other's research perspectives and instruments. This book brings together these different bodies of literature on the intersection of spatial and social exclusion for the first time, by providing a state-of-the art review written by internationally-recognized experts who critically reflect on the theoretical status of their research on social exclusion, and on the implications this has for future research and policy-making agendas.

Author : Camilla Lenzi,Valeria Fedeli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802202632

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Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing by Camilla Lenzi,Valeria Fedeli Pdf

Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing represents a timely and seminal contribution to the literature tackling one of the most crucial concerns of modern times: the rise of inequalities and its far-reaching implications for individual wellbeing. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, the book highlights the different types and sources of inequalities and identifies opportunities for policy action to tackle various inequalities at once.

Author : Jürgen Friedrichs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 3767207753

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Spatial Disparities and Social Behaviour by Jürgen Friedrichs Pdf

Author : H. Folmer,Jan Janssen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401730464

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Spatial inequalities and regional development by H. Folmer,Jan Janssen Pdf

In September 1977 a 'Regional Science Symposium' was held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Organized because of the recent establishment at the Faculty of Economics of a group that is engaged in teaching and research in the field of regional science, the aim of the symposium was to make university members more familiar with regional science and to introduce the newly created group to the national and international scene. Two separate topics were selected, of potential interest to both re searchers and policy-makers. The first, spatial inequalities and regional development, was chosen because of its central place in regional science. Authors from several disciplines were asked to approach this theme from a general, policy orientated point of view. This ensured the enlightenment of the various dimensions of spatial inequality and its implications for regional policy. The results have been collected in the volume Spatial Inequalities and Regional Development. The second theme focused on spatial statistical analysis. This branch of statistics is a relatively new one which receives growing attention among researchers in the field of applied regional science. The meeting on this topic concentrated on new results of research on the use of appro priate statistical and econometric methods for analyzing spatial data. The papers concerned have been collected into another volume, Explora tory and Explanatory Statistical Analysis of Spatial Data.

Author : Peter Gladoić Håkansson,Helena Bohman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789739435

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Investigating Spatial Inequalities by Peter Gladoić Håkansson,Helena Bohman Pdf

Offering in-depth perspectives on factors such as local labour markets, housing and mobility, this book investigates centralization tendencies in Scandinavia and South East Europe that help shape regional development and act as a catalyst to creating regional inequalities.

Author : Lloyd, Christopher D.,Shuttleworth, Ian G.,Wong, David W.
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447301356

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Social-spatial segregation by Lloyd, Christopher D.,Shuttleworth, Ian G.,Wong, David W. Pdf

This edited volume brings together leading researchers from the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to look at the processes leading to segregation and its implications. With a methodological focus, the book explores new methods and data sources that can offer fresh perspectives on segregation in different contexts. It considers how the spatial patterning of segregation might be best understood and measured, outlines some of the mechanisms that drive it, and discusses its possible social outcomes. Ultimately, it demonstrates that measurements and concepts of segregation must keep pace with a changing world. This volume will be essential reading for academics and practitioners in human geography, sociology, planning and public policy.

Author : Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius,Boris Pleskovic
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821377987

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Spatial Disparities and Development Policy by Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius,Boris Pleskovic Pdf

"The Berlin Workshop Series 2009 presents selected papers from meetings held from September 30 - October 2, 2007, at the 10th Annual Forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank's World Development Report. At the 2007 meetings, key researchers and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries met to identify and brainstorm on agriculture the development challenges and successes that are later examined in-depth in the World Development Report 2009. This volume presents papers from the Berlin Workshop sessions on issues relating to Understanding spatial trends: perspectives and models; new economic geography and the dynamics of technological change-implications for LDCs; perspectives: rural-urban transformation: leading, lagging and interlinking places; spatial disparity and labor mobility; country realities and policy options; learning from Europe's efforts at integration and convergence and spatial policy for growth and equity.