Special Issue "Frontiers in Economic Geography"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Geography and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Carlos Ferrás Sexto
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Department of Geography, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: communication; demography; emotion; cognition and human development; human geography; ict; psychology; urban and regional planning
Prof. Dr. Barney Warf
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Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
Interests: political economy; economic geography; construction of space and place
Prof. Dr. Rubén C. Lois-González
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Department of Geography and Town and Country Planning, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Interests: urban geography; economic development; cultural studies
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is intended to show the recent interdisciplinary development of economic geography and spatial analyses of human behavior, as well as to discuss possible directions for its future development. Economic geography has recently come into collision with numerous topics and conceptual standpoints that lie outside of its traditional areas of focus. We focus on interdisciplinary conceptual connections among the geographical, technological, cultural, economic, psychological, anthropological, sociological, and historical points of view. Topics of special interest are the intersections between economic geography and political economy, information technologies, demography, emotions and affect,  the digital world, globalization, and cultural geography. Frontiers in economic geography will complement the existing literature in a useful way, and should contribute new ideas, approaches, orientations, and priorities for an enriching debate on the future of geographical science.

The focus of the Special Issue will be on how the changing contours of economic geography have brought it into a creative tension with new topics and theories, making the discipline far more interdisciplinary in its outlook. The result has been a proliferation of ways in which space has been conceptualized. Coversely, spatial analysis has become increasingly important for related disciplines, leading to a widespread spatialization of the social sciences.

Among the new topics to be discussed, two can be highlighted for their novelty and interdisciplinary  nature. On the one hand, there is the economy of identity, an approach that links the economic performance, capabilities, and place. On the other hand, there is social innovation, which relates the capacities of small- and medium-sized communities with the possibilities of introducing new factors of economic development. Finally, the recent approach to the circular economy opens up prospects for a new dialogue between economic and territorial analysis.

Although economic geographers have experienced a recent renaissance of conceptual and empirical work, there have been few attempts to systematically relate these changes to other disciplines. This issue will introduce many readers outside of geography to contemporary developments.

Prof. Dr. Carlos Ferrás Sexto
Prof. Dr. Barney Warf
Prof. Dr. Rubén C. Lois-González
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • interdisciplinary knowledge
  • innovation
  • spatial analysis
  • conceptual connections
  • geography
  • human behavior
  • digital world

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Multiple Dimensions of Gender (Dis)Parity: A County-Scale Analysis of Occupational Attainment in the USA, 2019
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8915; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168915 - 09 Aug 2021
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Gender economic parity comprises an integral part of the United Nation’s 17 goals toward attaining sustainable development. Women have historically been confined to feminine occupations associated with lower pay, which have negatively impacted their economic wellbeing. This paper examines gendered dimensions of occupational [...] Read more.
Gender economic parity comprises an integral part of the United Nation’s 17 goals toward attaining sustainable development. Women have historically been confined to feminine occupations associated with lower pay, which have negatively impacted their economic wellbeing. This paper examines gendered dimensions of occupational (dis)parity across US counties and their association with educational attainment. Drawing on five years’ American Community Survey estimates (2015–2019) data from the National Historical Geographic Information System, I conduct descriptive statistical analysis of occupation-based location quotients and education, followed by an in-depth share analysis of 26 gender-based sub-categories of occupations. The correlation analysis provides insights into the multiple dimensions of gendered inequalities. Women’s largest engagements still include sales/office (28.66%), service (21.15%), and education/legal/community-service/arts/media (15.03%)—accounting toward 65% of all employed women in the US. Women majoring in science/engineering and related disciplines are still the lowest, which manifests into their alarmingly lower representations in science/engineering and related occupations. This suggests strategic policy interventions to advance women in STEM education. This analysis, however, also suggests occupational parity for women with a master’s education and above who share almost similar types of relationships with major categories of occupations, even though the coefficients are more favorable for males in managerial jobs. Full article
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Gendered Dimensions of Unpaid Activities: An Empirical Insight into Rural Bangladesh Households
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6670; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126670 - 11 Jun 2021
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Women in Bangladesh are generally perceived as caregivers, often confined within the households to perform various activities, whereas men are perceived as the providers. These complex gendered roles intersect with multiple factors such as household structure, marital status, religion, cultural beliefs, economic shocks, [...] Read more.
Women in Bangladesh are generally perceived as caregivers, often confined within the households to perform various activities, whereas men are perceived as the providers. These complex gendered roles intersect with multiple factors such as household structure, marital status, religion, cultural beliefs, economic shocks, and livelihood opportunities. This study used the feminist political ecology framework to contextualize and analyze time allocated toward unpaid works, culturally accepted as female/gendered activities, and the nuanced power dynamics between men and women within the rural households of Bangladesh. We used the household survey data collected from the Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey of 2015 to create a multiple linear regression model that helps understand the impacts of economic, cultural, and environmental shocks on the total time allocated toward unpaid activities by women within the household. Results suggest women who experienced climate-change shocks such as crop losses due to disasters and non-climatic shocks such as dowry tend to allocate more time toward unpaid tasks. In contrast, women who own their businesses tend to give less time toward unpaid tasks. This study provides guidelines for necessary gender-sensitive national policies to address the United Nation’s goal of gender equity and sustainable development. Full article
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