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Professor Urbain Vermeulen : a biography Ghent University
Selected-ion flow-tube mass-spectrometry (SIFT-MS) fingerprinting versus chemical profiling for geographic traceability of Moroccan Argan oils Ghent University Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Why (not) abolish fares? Exploring the global geography of fare‐free public transport Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Although the policy of abolishing fares in public transport—here referred to as “fare-free public transport” (FFPT)—exists in nearly 100 localities worldwide, it has not been thor- oughly researched. To start filling this gap, I enhance the conceptual clarity about fare abo- lition. I start by providing a definition of FFPT, discussing its different forms, and introduc- ing a distinction between “partial” FFPT and—the main focus of the ...
The geography of micro-initiatives Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tim Cassiers (VUB) describes how micro-initiatives emerge in certain part of the city, and on the other hand how certain urban areas contribute to their existence and development. Although convinced about their contribution to local and neighbourhood development, he warns for a localist bias and pleas for a perspective of the impact of micro-initiatives on the city as a whole.
Financial geography has come of age: making space for intradisciplinary dialogue Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The launch of Finance and Space heralds the maturation of financial geography as a geographical subdiscipline. Maturation comes with the responsibility to establish deeper dialogues across geography to achieve synthesis in big debates surrounding global challenges, science, technology, nature and society. We highlight three areas of intradisciplinary dialogic potential illustrating financial geography’s contribution to debates on (countering) ...
Is there a world beyond the Web of Science? Publication practices outside the heartland of academic geography Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Because research on the publication practices of academic geographers has been limited to the quantification of journal articles cited in easily searchable databases such as Thomson Reuters' Web of Science or Elsevier's Scopus, the question remains whether journals that are not indexed by these databases flourish or perish under the increasing pressure to publish in outlets with the highest impact factors. To answer this question, we have ...
The contextual nature of geography Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This commentary discusses the relatively
limited presence of the two Anglophone geographical
classics Geography and Geographers and Political
Geography in the academic teaching of the discipline
in the Global South. It does so by contrasting the books
with the works of Brazilian geographer Milton Santos
and by highlighting convergences and differences
between these Anglo-American and Brazilian texts.
They ...
limited presence of the two Anglophone geographical
classics Geography and Geographers and Political
Geography in the academic teaching of the discipline
in the Global South. It does so by contrasting the books
with the works of Brazilian geographer Milton Santos
and by highlighting convergences and differences
between these Anglo-American and Brazilian texts.
They ...
Financial geography II: Financial geographies of housing and real estate KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2018. Geographers have started studying residential (housing) and commercial real estate (offices, retail, leisure) at the intersection of financial and urban geographies to understand how the built environment – chunky and spatially fixed – has been turned into a (quasi-)financial asset – ‘unitized’ and liquid – through a range of regulatory and socio-technical changes and constructions. The financialization of real estate is ...
Territorializing international travel emissions : geography and magnitude of the hidden climate footprint of Brussels Ghent University
In the present article we investigate the geography and magnitude of the climate footprint of long-distance travel with Brussels, Belgium, as a destination. The internationally networked position of this city goes hand in hand with a strong dependence on international mobility, which largely materializes in impressive volumes of long-distance travel and associated consumption of important amounts of fossil fuel. Despite a surge in concerns about ...