Children's Geography

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

Child Support Enforcement and Childrens Consumption

This paper examines the consequences of child support enforcement on children’s consumption. I model the interaction in separated couples as a repeated game between the noncustodial father and the custodial mother who exclusively controls the child’s consumption. The father can only in‡uence the child’s consumption through transfers to the mother. Initially, parents agree on transfer payments a...

Chinese childrens’ diabetes status, trends and hardship

Diabetes mellitus is now fast emerging as one of the biggest health catastrophes the world has ever witnessed. It has huge global and societal implications, particularly in developing countries such as China and India [1]. China is now bring with it potential massive increase in type 1 diabetes (2-5% per annum increases in incidence in the world’s most populous countries) and childhood obesity ...

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Economic geography