Social and Policy Perspective on Transport Geography

Ideas and Social Policy: An Institutionalist Perspective

Since the beginning of the  s, historical institutionalism has emerged as one of the most influential theoretical perspectives in social policy studies. Although their work is insightful, most institutionalist scholars tend to relegate policy ideas to the back of their theoretical constructions dealing with welfare state development. The objective of this paper is to show how institutionali...

Cultural and Social Geography

Spatial analysis of social pathology in Iran from the perspective of social geography using the Cocoso technique

Aims and Background: One of the issues that have a great contribution in achieving social comfort and welfare is security and analysis of its related components. The present study was conducted with the aim of social pathology and analyzing indicators related to social security in Iran by using the combined compromise solution, which is one of the new multi-attribute decision-making techniques....

A Fractal Perspective on Scale in Geography

Scale is a fundamental concept that has attracted persistent attention in geography literature over the past several decades. However, it creates enormous confusion and frustration, particularly in the context of geographic information science, because of scale-related issues such as image resolution and the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). This paper argues that the confusion and frustrat...

Transport Investment, Geography, and Growth

A substantial part of the economic growth literature suggests that historically, geographic features such as decreasing trade costs have improved not only output but also growth. However, this literature lacks an analytical motivation for lower trade barriers, and assumes their decrease to obtain exogenously and at no cost. This paper attempts to address the issue by investigating how endogenou...