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Publikováno v:
International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research. 14:1-22
The aim of this study is to introduce a method for estimating the population of a Middle Eastern city, the city of Hillah, in the absence of a census which was last conducted in 1997. The method incorporates the normalized difference built-up index a
Autor:
Elaf Alyasiri, Bailey McClain, Ryan D. James, Autumn C. James, Felipe Valdez, Matthew Howe, Yiwei Jin, Yaxiong Shao, Kyagaba Lwanga, Andrea Moore
Publikováno v:
GeoJournal. 87:281-292
This paper presents the experience of a service-learning course which used community geography to study a proposed research and community center in DeKalb, IL. The center was proposed as a jointly-developed project by the Northern Illinois University
Autor:
Ryan D. James, Harrison S. Campbell
Publikováno v:
Southeastern Geographer. 61:81-104
Autor:
Ryan D. James, Harrison S. Campbell
Publikováno v:
Papers in Applied Geography. 6:4-18
We explore the relationship between income and cost of living, two key components of regional economic well-being. Our premise is that if high-income (or low-income) areas are also high-cost (or lo...
Autor:
Autumn C. James, Ryan D. James
Publikováno v:
Southeastern Geographer. 59:213-247
Autor:
Ryan D. James, Autumn C. James
Publikováno v:
Journal of Appalachian Studies. 22:160-186
For a number of decades, Appalachia has been a region that has lacked the growth and development that neighboring regions have experienced. Interestingly, in the past thirty years, as investment relocated during the Rust Belt-Sun Belt Transition, evi
Publikováno v:
Papers in Applied Geography. 2:49-65
Despite evidence that the bulk of all job creation is attributed to a small subset of establishments, their performance has not been included in spatially explicit models of regional income convergence. Because convergence is an inherently geographic
Autor:
Autumn C. James, Ryan D. James
Publikováno v:
Southeastern Geographer. 55:164-192
Coming out of neo-classical growth theory, convergence theory suggests that regional differences in income will decrease over time. Studied in a variety of frameworks, there is evidence that convergence occurs, though conditioned upon regional econom
Autor:
Ryan D. James, Harrison S. Campbell
Publikováno v:
GeoJournal. 78:803-815
Beta convergence theorizes that regions with low levels of income will grow faster than regions with higher incomes as investment is moved to regions where returns can be maximized. The formal test for beta convergence is an OLS regression with incom
Autor:
Ryan D. James
Publikováno v:
Southeastern Geographer. 50:346-365
The American South is a region with a strong regional identity. This identity is frequently examined through cultural terms, but has also been examined in relation to its economic changes post-WWII. In that time, the South has seen a rapid rate of gr