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Regional Research (regional + research)

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Humanities and Social Sciences80%

Selected Abstracts

REFLECTIONS ON REGIONAL RESEARCH IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW, Issue 4 2010
MARIE D. PRICE
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The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research: An Editorial Statement

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 2 2009
JEREMY SEEKINGS
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2007
Article first published online: 19 MAR 200
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Social Polarization and the Politics of Low Income Mortgage Lending in the United States

GEOGRAFISKA ANNALER SERIES B: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, Issue 3 2003
Jason Hackworth
ABSTRACT The structured inequalities of capital investment and disinvestment are prominent themes in critical urban and regional research, but many accounts portray ,capital' as a global, faceless and placeless abstraction operating according to a hidden, unitary logic. Sweeping political-economic shifts in the last generation demonstrate that capital may shape urban and regional processes in many different ways, and each of these manifestations creates distinct constraints and opportunities. In this paper, we analyze a new institutional configuration in the USA that is reshaping access to wealth among the poor , a policy ,consensus' to expand home-ownership among long-excluded populations. This shift has opened access to some low- and moderate-income households, and racial and ethnic minorities, but the necessary corollary is a greater polarization between those who are able to own and those who are not. We provide a critical analysis of these changes, drawing on national housing finance statistics as well as a multivariate analysis of differences between owners and renters in the 1990s in New York City. As home-ownership strengthens its role as a privatized form of stealth urban and housing policy in the USA, its continued expansion drives a corresponding reconstruction of its value for different groups, and inscribes a sharper axis of property-rights inequalities among owners and renters in the working classes. [source]

Male reproductive health research needs and research agenda: Asian and Pacific perspective

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY, Issue S2 2000
Yi-Fei Wang
Enhancing male reproductive health, and increasing men's participation in it, involves encouraging a range of positive reproductive health and social behaviour by men to help ensure women's and children's well-being. More intellectual work,including research programmes,is urgently needed to clarify the conceptual framework for male reproductive health. At the Asia and the Pacific Symposium ,Intra-regional Cooperation in Reproductive Health Research' (Shanghai, China, 12,13 October 1998) the Symposium participants identified regional research needs and recommended a regional reproductive health research agenda, which addresses six key issues related to male reproductive health: (i) male contraceptive technology; (ii) reproductive tract infections/sexually transmitted diseases and male infertility; (iii) male involvement in reproductive health; (iv) male adolescent reproductive health; (v) male reproductive ageing; and (vi) environment and male reproductive health. One of the major challenges now facing us is the elaboration of a comprehensive, yet realistic, male reproductive health research agenda that reflects the needs and demands of Asian developing countries. Making full use of an interdisciplinary approach is of strategic importance to achieve this. [source]