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Creative production in the digital age: A network analysis of the digital game industry in China 数字时代的创意生产：中国数字游戏产业的网络分析

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Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104158

Yarong Zhan , Tengfei Wang , Xuecheng Bi

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New directions for resilience research: The significance of volume and verticality 复原力研究的新方向：体积和垂直度的意义

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104160

Janine Natalya Clark

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“Renovate to rent” as a spatio-temporal fix under state entrepreneurialism: Urban renewal through long-term rental apartment development in China "以租代售 "作为国家企业主义下的时空修复：中国通过长租公寓开发实现城市更新

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104159

Chenxi Li , Shenjing He

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Entrenching systems of dominance in urban form: Exploring the origins of inequality in Secunda, South Africa 巩固城市形态中的支配体系：探索南非塞康达不平等的根源

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104125

Tarryn N.K. Paquet

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Belonging and Welcomeness in State and Community Parks: Visitation Impacts and Strategies for Advancing Environmental Justice 州立和社区公园的归属感和欢迎度：游览影响和促进环境正义的策略

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104149

Sammie L. Powers , Andrew J. Mowen , Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers

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Mainland ignorance: Okinawa and Japanese colonial unknowing 大陆的无知冲绳和日本殖民时期的无知

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-11-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104146

Hidefumi Nishiyama

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The Living Legacies of Mega Water-Development Projects: Power, Politics, and the Afterlives of Sri Lanka's Mahaweli Development Project 大型水利开发项目的鲜活遗产：斯里兰卡马哈威利开发项目的权力、政治和后遗症

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104147

Harry M. Quealy , Kavindra Paranage

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Universities as asset class: Private sector investment in property for universities 大学作为资产类别：私营部门对大学物业的投资

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-10-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104138

Kristian Ruming, Sha Liu

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Invasive networks: An environmental history of the introduction of Prosopis juliflora to Banni grassland, India 入侵网络：印度班尼草原引入糙叶树的环境史

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104144

Ramya Ravi , Siddhartha Krishnan

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‘A wing in the throat’: Negotiating edibility in everyday insect consumption 喉咙里的翅膀日常昆虫消费中的可食性谈判

IF 3.4 2区社会学

Geoforum Pub Date : 2024-10-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.104132

Johannes Volden

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